Skip to main content

one way to learn!

Have taken to watching Wing with the Hebrew subtitles on! Osmosis.. I'll be fluent by Thursday!

Comments

Ellen Loudon said…
freak!!! xxx
Ellen Loudon said…
what did you decide to do in the end?
Jude said…
hello from London! Not quite fluent yet.. sure it will happen in the course of the day!
Anonymous said…
movies are a great way to learn!
Anonymous said…
Hey Jude, just reading about your blog since moving to Bristol, do remember that the offer of country pub lunch or walk on Exmoor whenever needed still stands any time! hope things are going well there. We're only 45 ins ish from Bristol. get me through facebook or Rach...
Cath Collings x

Popular posts from this blog

Remembering What I Enjoy..

Occasionally I forget things. Some stuff like birthdays, names and stuff is a normal human thing, and I don't sweat it so much. But I also forget some other stuff which is not so good. I forget what I enjoy. I don't know how it happens but it does from time to time. And its at these moments that I need a bit of help remembering. So- this is a request for help. What do I enjoy doing? What gives me joy? Leave me a comment.

A Broadside: *plot spoiler* for Tory sympathisers

Today some alarming social equality data was released. It said what we all know: if you are poor, you have less opportunities in life. For every £100 a month less income than the median you start school one month behind developmentally. Your vocabulary aged 5 is half what it is for a rich kid if you are in the bottom ten percent of income. Housing tenure stats are even worse. "Only 4 per cent of those of working age living in social housing have degrees, and nearly half have no or only low qualifications. Only half of men and 42 per cent of women of working age living in social housing are in paid work, compared with 89 per cent of men and 81 per cent of women in households with a mortgage." Social housing: by its nature, is grouped (london people ignore this, you are the freaks not the norm). That means that we have allowed ghettoes of poverty and low attainment (not just in a SATS way either). Now it would be easy, and some daft Tory has already done it, to pin this on