Can you home educate your children plus run your own business?
Figures from sample local authorities suggest the numbers of children in the UK being home- educated could be anything between 7,400 and 50,000. It’s impossible to be sure of these numbers because not all children who are learning from home are registered as being home educated with their local authority. Some estimates put the numbers [...]
It’s European Day of Languages
European Day of Languages (EDL) is celebrated every year on the 26th September. It was started in 2001 by the Council of Europe and has grown each year since. Many events are organized across Europe in schools, colleges and language classes; and on television and radio stations. People across Europe are encouraged to learn other [...]
What does what you read say about you?
This post was inspired by a tweet on Twitter – “If you want to know who people are, look at what they read.” I think there’s some truth in this. In the same way as we might, even at a subconscious level, make judgements about someone from first impressions based on their nationality, accent, clothes, [...]
My five most precious possessions
Browsing through a magazine in a waiting room recently, I happened across an article entitled ‘My top five most precious possessions’. It was just a few lines of text, with pictures, but it captured my imagination. It’s interesting how inanimate objects can take on such significance, and become woven into a person’s, and sometimes a [...]
Book review: White Heat by Brenda Novak
When Sarah recently asked if one of the Birds would like to review a novel for Birds on the Blog, of course I rose to the challenge While White Heat has the requisite frequent sexual tension and sexual encounters between the characters that might characterise a bonkbuster, there’s a lot more to this book than [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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