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The Day That Summer Died

The Day That Summer Died From all around the mourners came The day that Summer died, From hill and valley,…

7 years ago

Kate Millett, Eng Lit and the The Farm in Poughkeepsie

There are pockets of Poughkeepsie that still have a rural look and feel. Cows graze and the corn is ripe…

7 years ago

Blackberrying

Here then, as promised is the indulgence of blackberry poems. (For any very young readers confused by Thirteen Ways of…

7 years ago

Blackberry and Apple Crumble

If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs but we've got no eggs. That First World War…

7 years ago

Life in School: A New Year

New teacher orientation; playground supervision; transfixed with horror; a hard time unplugging; curriculum mapping. More Life in School Cartoons Life…

7 years ago

Bitter Strawberries

     Farm work is one of the best jobs for getting to know people as they really are. The…

7 years ago

The Reason Why: Digging into Cause and Effect

When it comes to school improvement - or the fine art of problem finding and solution seeking - it's always…

7 years ago

My gaze is clear as a sunflower

Paul Nash's fascination with aerial bombardment led him to an ecstatic vision of “the sky blossoming with floating flowers”. This,…

7 years ago

Saplings

I'm not giving anything away by quoting the deep irony of the last lines of Saplings: Turns you over, don’t…

7 years ago

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge...…

7 years ago