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#91
General Discussion / Should children learn poetry
Last post by muddy - Yesterday at 06:29:46 PM
Yes IMO they should .
Little children are like sponges they soak up things and a beautiful poem will be remembered all of their lives.
Who among us does not know the Owl and the Pussy cat went to sea ,or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ?
It helps in their literacy their language and their appreciation of the spoken word .
You can bet your bottom dollar that private schools give small children poetry .

Older children too can benefit from poetry .
Feelings....
How do I love thee ? By Elizabeth Barratt  Browning
Or the immortal war poets
Rupert Brooke 's Home thoughts from Abroad
These are our history our Britishness

Yes boring progressive teachers think they are bad for children .



#92
The Chat Room / Re: Boom Radio
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 06:12:52 PM
I doubt anybody here listens to radio on long wave medium wave or short wave as the quality tends to be pretty poor. Half the FM band is taken up by the BBC. Most car radios these days are DAB. I don't find it at all surprising that many new stations are digital only.
#93
The Chat Room / Re: The boring thread.....
Last post by GrannyMac - Yesterday at 06:10:58 PM
I wentvtobthe charity shop this morning, sorting bricabrac. Feet up after lunch and nodded off. I think I'm getting old! Going to pop to Morrison's after tea, I like goingvearly morning or evening, it's lovely and quiet.   Better than the interminable football on TV.
#94
The Chat Room / Re: Lets write a Limerick, one...
Last post by GrannyMac - Yesterday at 05:38:46 PM
So Pauls's wife went and knocked at his door
But was told its not against the Law
So she told him a thing or two
The air turned quite blue
'Cos she couldn't forget what she saw! 

(Law and saw don't rhyme with door for us Scots 😉)



#95
General Discussion / Re: Douglas Murray says it as ...
Last post by GrannyMac - Yesterday at 05:29:29 PM
Quote from: Alex on Yesterday at 03:49:29 PMSpot on Muddy.
I agree 👍🏽
#96
The Chat Room / Re: The boring thread.....
Last post by Michael Rolls - Yesterday at 04:52:29 PM
Rain
#97
The Chat Room / Re: Boom Radio
Last post by Alex - Yesterday at 03:57:59 PM
Quote from: Mups on Yesterday at 01:30:34 PMI can only repeat my earlier view,  which was why would anyone want to start a radio station that can't be accessed on a  normal radio??     I really can't see any common sense in that at all,  not if they hope to get many listeners.

I've just read that there's no more room on AM/FM for new radio stations, that's why DAB was invented to give access to more radio stations.  There'll be money involved somewhere I bet
#98
General Discussion / Re: Douglas Murray says it as ...
Last post by Alex - Yesterday at 03:49:29 PM
Quote from: muddy on Yesterday at 12:28:59 PMThese are horrible cartoons CHF .

From the Guardian why am I not surprised ?

Once the Guardian was a great paper the paper for the working man .

Now it has lost its way big time .

It's easy for very well paid, middle class Guardian readers  ( most living in Islington ) to sneer at opposition to mass migration but they aren't impacted by it.
 They aren't competing for jobs or housing with the vast numbers coming in.

Neither are they living in neighbourhoods were people are becoming foreigners in their own country.

Virtue signaling champagnes socialists .

Spot on Muddy.
#99
The Chat Room / Re: The boring thread.....
Last post by Alex - Yesterday at 03:40:02 PM
Another miserable day here weather wise.  I've just done a bit of hoovering and had a bit of a tidy up 🥱
#100
The Chat Room / Re: The boring thread.....
Last post by Scrumpy - Yesterday at 02:44:32 PM
Quote from: Mups on Yesterday at 02:04:31 PMYesterday at 02:06:06 PM
I remember that.    So did Tom Jones get your drawers then,  Scrumps?    :grin:

So, why do you think he always has a big smile on his face..!!!