Phoenix Education

18/09/2024

Here it is - the third book featuring the beautiful Fairy Hanny

After her two prvious adventures the lovely Fairy Hanny is back in the Castle of King Innocent in Setebos. She has undertaken a two hour afternoon course and now calls herself a Lifestyle Guru. Her aim is to get King Innocent out of his unhealthy personal habits and into fitness and good nutritio...

26/06/2024

Despite the daily frustrations it is still a beautiful world

24/06/2024

3.5 days to end of school year. It's been a quick year.

21/06/2024

Good game

11/06/2024

Photo by Taryn Elliott on Pexels.com It still makes me smile when I see the road sign indicating Beware of Camels! On my way into the city I have to travel along some back roads and a long dual carriageway, all surrounded by open land. The local farmers have various herds of camels that seem to just wander freely around the area, though I am sure there must be some kind of stables for them at night....

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Photo by Taryn Elliott on Pexels.com It still makes me smile when I see the road sign indicating Beware of Camels! On my way into the city I have to travel along some back roads and a long dual car…

10/06/2024

Well we’ve still got three weeks before school finishes for the summer. However the attitude of many of our students seems to be Exams are over so I’m not coming to school anymore. This is made worse by the fact that next week is Eid and so school is closed for the week; then we have one week back and boom – summer holidays!...

Well we’ve still got three weeks before school finishes for the summer. However the attitude of many of our students seems to be Exams are over so I’m not coming to school anymore. This is made wor…

07/06/2024

Photo by Jill Wellington on Pexels.com Of course we had to do our test flights. I wanted to go out to the outside balcony overlooking the sports field – actually it is an astro-turf football pitch – but they all complained that it was too hot outside. Back home in England I would be facing the opposite problem with students demanding to have lessons outside because it was too hot inside....

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Photo by Jill Wellington on Pexels.com Of course we had to do our test flights. I wanted to go out to the outside balcony overlooking the sports field – actually it is an astro-turf football pitch …

05/06/2024

It’s the end of year and so to everyone’s deep joy it is exam time. Some of the students have been really good to me by inventing pointless answers to some of the questions and basically just writing random numbers for answers. One of the Year 7 boys decided that every question requiring an answer with an angle – angles on a straight line, angles in a triangle, angles on parallel lines – the answer always had to be 0.4....

It’s the end of year and so to everyone’s deep joy it is exam time. Some of the students have been really good to me by inventing pointless answers to some of the questions and basically just writi…

03/06/2024

So the UK didn’t quite work out how I expected. Coming home? Home is where the heart is, so they say. Clearly my home is no longer Liverpool. I suppose realistically I left that ‘home’ at 19 when I went off to the Polytechnic. A new life, a new world, a new set of people; with tendrils still linked back to ‘home.’...

So the UK didn’t quite work out how I expected. Coming home? Home is where the heart is, so they say. Clearly my home is no longer Liverpool. I suppose realistically I left that ‘home’ at 19 when I…

29/04/2024

There was a young girl called Gaynor Finnegan, She went walking in Arguineguin, Paul came out and pulled her in again, Same old timeshare spin again, begin again? Photo by Marco Santos on Pexels.com

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There was a young girl called Gaynor Finnegan, She went walking in Arguineguin, Paul came out and pulled her in again, Same old timeshare spin again, begin again? Photo by Marco Santos on Pexels.co…

11/04/2024

Oh the fish came out the sea, And turned in to a mammal, So he had a cup of tea, And rode off on a camel. He sauntered on the soft sand dunes, And it was all so nice, So he ate a lovely bowl of prunes, And chocolate covered rice. He sat down on a bench, And said that he was bored,...

Oh the fish came out the sea, And turned in to a mammal, So he had a cup of tea, And rode off on a camel. He sauntered on the soft sand dunes, And it was all so nice, So he ate a lovely bowl of pru…

31/12/2023

I have to stay awake until 4am to let uk friends catch up

28/11/2023

A lovely place to sit and read for 20 minutes

25/09/2023

Happy days back in the heat

23/09/2023

Accommodation for the next 2 weeks. Kyriad Hotel, Salalah, Oman 🇴🇲

29/08/2023

Wear big clothes. Eat less. Don’t eat burnt fish! Bacon is sane. Eat banana skin so nobody falls over. Kale looks good on a model railway. A steak tastes better and is less chewy than a stake. Fairy cakes should be ordered by Gnomes. Fried lettuce burns Elephants should be consumed one piece at a time. Eating shellfish is selfish....

Wear big clothes. Eat less. Don’t eat burnt fish! Bacon is sane. Eat banana skin so nobody falls over. Kale looks good on a model railway. A steak tastes better and is less chewy than a stake. Fair…

18/08/2023

Scratchy Leathers. Photo by abdelhak elghali on Pexels.com Things we can wear at home; “I’ll tell you what to wear!” She said: My dread. Déjà vu in French – Morocco. Did you know we travelled on the Marrakech Express? Slowly – lentement Pierre; Cramped corridor reality. “Don’t go to the cludgy on here!” Slowly – lentement. Driving south – just a little thing from Jimi;...

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Scratchy Leathers. Photo by abdelhak elghali on Pexels.com Things we can wear at home; “I’ll tell you what to wear!” She said: My dread. Déjà vu in French – Morocco. Did you know we travelled on th…

16/08/2023

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com There was a girl, Who’s name was Ada Babbage. When she did a twirl, A very nice twirl, She looked like a frozen Cabbage.

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Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com There was a girl, Who’s name was Ada Babbage. When she did a twirl, A very nice twirl, She looked like a frozen Cabbage.

12/07/2023

Big Bad Regan As Orcs go, Regan was a bad one. I know this implies that some Orcs are therefore good, which is not really the case. Rather than say an Orc is good it is best to say some of them are less bad than the others. This is Politically Correct Adventure Doublespeak. In real terms some Orcs are evil bastards and some are just downright vile....

Big Bad Regan As Orcs go, Regan was a bad one. I know this implies that some Orcs are therefore good, which is not really the case. Rather than say an Orc is good it is best to say some of them are…

10/07/2023

Strange Things From Uranus - S**U!

Strange Things From Uranus – S**U!

09/07/2023

Southport, just before the rain hit

06/07/2023

If you're enjoying these clips in my blog why not buy the books? First Adventure is "Strange Things from Uranus" I just checked and I have well over one thousand followers for my blogs, and over one thousand 'friends' on LinkedIn. I am sure that means there is a good market out there just dying to build up a big laugh from these books!...

If you’re enjoying these clips in my blog why not buy the books? First Adventure is “Strange Things from Uranus” I just checked and I have well over one thousand followers for my …

05/07/2023

More talking “So there must be lots of these Spyders by now,” said Steve. “I heard that Spyders breed like rabbits!” “That can’t possibly be true,” said Greg. “Rabbits are mammals so therefore the young are carried internally by the mother until birth. They then have to be weaned and fed milk from the mammary glands until able to fend for themselves....

More talking “So there must be lots of these Spyders by now,” said Steve. “I heard that Spyders breed like rabbits!” “That can’t possibly be true,” said Greg. “Rabbits are mammals so therefore the …

04/07/2023

The Spyders from Mars. It appeared that some forty years ago a gold disc had fallen into a field near Far in the middle of the night. The people came from Far and Wide, the neighbouring village, to see the gold disc. After all they normally only associated a gold disc with a trendy pop star; perhaps a wormhole had picked up The Sweet?...

The Spyders from Mars. It appeared that some forty years ago a gold disc had fallen into a field near Far in the middle of the night. The people came from Far and Wide, the neighbouring village, to…

03/07/2023

A far-out night in Far – That what must it be! Escape from Wails was complete. It was clear to Peter that Both contained some painful memories for Hanny; she had denied him amongst her oldest friends. He knew at this point in the narrative that he was madly in love with that fairy of fairies, yet she was playing hard to get – which is not quite as bad as playing a miserable get....

A far-out night in Far – That what must it be! Escape from Wails was complete. It was clear to Peter that Both contained some painful memories for Hanny; she had denied him amongst her oldest frien…