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Pete Medway: April 2012
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Sunday, 1 April 2012. Messing up classic drama. I've sounded off before. But perhaps I should persist and go to more productions; perhaps some do work. I'm wondering that because Handel’s. At Glyndebourne last year (BBC4 last Friday night, available for a week here. Done straight, or even listened to it on CD. As You Like It.
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Pete Medway: Walworth early 50s -- new evidence
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Sunday, 19 August 2012. Walworth early 50s - new evidence. Pat and I recently interviewed someone with a good memory of the school from 1948 to 1955, though her memories relate more to the school and teachers in general than to English and what went on in the lessons. She was taught English by. What’s the explanation? I've w...
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Pete Medway: Enough opening ceremonies...
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Thursday, 30 August 2012. One a month will do me. I passed on the Paralympics ceremony last night, after a brief sampling, not because I thought it wouldn’t be good, as the Olympics one was - I enjoyed that greatly (as a whole, I should add, being honest) - but live television is no way to see it. Followers of the blog.
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Pete Medway: May 2012
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Saturday, 19 May 2012. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Followers of the blog. Art works in schools. Living in the country. Lord of the Flies. Shakespeare opera theatre actors. Wind in the Willows. Jim Medway's blog, mainly about comics and comics workshops. View my complete profile.
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Pete Medway: January 2012
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Tuesday, 31 January 2012. Mervyn Peake, it seems, drew a set of jokey pictures entitled ‘Figures of Speech’:. Those are funny and clever (though not funny and clever enough for me to decide life’s not too short for reading Peake’s Gormenghast novels - am I wrong? I mentioned Donald Davie. Not long ago. Davie argues, in.
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Pete Medway: December 2011
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Monday, 26 December 2011. A lost follower of this blog. Links to this post. Never too soon, I suppose, to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. Not that I ever make any since they seem doomed to be abandoned. Ted Hughes not only read the complete poems of Yeats- as a schoolboy - but, he reckons (. He knew them by heart.
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Pete Medway: Walworth -- more needed
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Sunday, 19 August 2012. Walworth - more needed. However, not every sort of written or spoken memory is equally useful. Compare,. I remember her as a sympathetic but strict teacher, and her teaching must have been effective because I passed my O and A level English. I recall that he often allowed noisy cross arguments where y...
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Pete Medway: May 2013
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Sunday, 5 May 2013. Walworth School: a contact requested. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Followers of the blog. Walworth School: a contact requested. Art works in schools. Living in the country. Lord of the Flies. Shakespeare opera theatre actors. Wind in the Willows. View my complete profile.
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Pete Medway: March 2012
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Unstreetwise and fogeyish stuff on life, education, poetrylanguageandlit, architecture, art, cultural stuff, books. Also updates on a history project about Walworth/Mina Road School. Monday, 19 March 2012. The Castles on the Ground. JM Richards, 1946) in my last post. Here’s how it starts. 1 The Englishman's Home. Richards wasn’t writing about my suburb - definitely southern, Teddington or Twickenham, perhaps. Links to this post. Childhood in suburb and city. Castles on the Ground. Semis The front of Wid...
