Phoenix Education

25/12/2024

I was getting close to quitting any idea of being a writer. I have three books on Amazon but few sales. I was walking on the beach today in Hawana, Oman. I have outline plans for at least 9 more books and so I decided i should keep going. Then when I got home I found this in an email;...

I was getting close to quitting any idea of being a writer. I have three books on Amazon but few sales. I was walking on the beach today in Hawana, Oman. I have outline plans for at least 9 more bo…

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