Well, oldest daughter has just completed her first ‘work experience’ week. She didn’t seem too horrified by the big wide world, and reckoned it beat school hands-down.
She worked in a creche (nursery) with children of pre-school age, which she has always had an affinity with, and it seemed to go OK. One of the children [...]

OK, the last couple of entries have been a bit serious so I’ll share a couple of more light-hearted anecdotes today. Curiously I heard a couple of amusing stories related to education yesterday so I’ll start with them (and probably finish as well, because I’m supposed to be mowing the grass).
We have a friend with [...]

Mrs B has received an offer from a local French teacher-friend, suggesting they help each other improve their language skills. Sounds good and sensible, except…the friend already talks very good English and has emphasised that the finer points of grammar are to be the area of focus.
Now Mrs B, like me (myself?) can speak and [...]

Once a year something terrible descends on our house. It lasts about four hours, moves around the hose with a terrible fury, making strange and startling noises and destroying everything in its wake.
It is a children’s birthday party.
There is one advantage of childrens parties in rural France. In the UK, birthday parties cost a fortune [...]