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L’électron fou
Si la politique française a ses électrons libres (Nadine MORANO, Laurent WAUQUIEZ, Rachida DATI, Arnaud MONTEBOURG, Emmanuel MACRON même, …) au moins pour un temps… Et François BAYROU en est l’illustration parfaite ! L’estampe japonaise de la girouette...
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Les Croisades Manquent de Croisés...
A l’aube du 11ième siècle… Godefroy de Bouillon et quelques pairs s’engageaient dans la première croisade… pour s’en aller délivrer le tombeau du Christ à Jérusalem… envahie par les mahométans… Roland de Roncevaux trouva la mort en sonnant son appel à...
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Spinster Stories - Jason Mason
Jason was the life and soul of the party… and he was invited at every single one of them…. people simply loved him… his company… his jokes… his intelligence… his culture… and he was good looking too… there seemed to be nothing wrong with him… Jason here...
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Challenging the teaching… challenging the teacher…
Not a day goes by without me hearing one teacher or another complain that students don’t want to learn… or don’t work at what they should learn… which is too often true but again not a day goes by without me seeing that most teachers start their career...
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W&M - Amanda LEAR (PI – Int) – Never Trust A Pretty Face
Fomer Dali égérie and fashion top model Amanda Lear. She is a singer and songwriter in her own right as well as television hostess, actress writer and painter. She poses on Roxy Music’s Cover of For Your Pleasure. Amanda Lear speaks and writes and performs...
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Teaching With Books
Teaching with books will take on many varied aspects. Course books are the staple diet of most teachers and remain a priority… and each student must have his / her own copy… I recommend choosing a good course book especially in the lower levels… that...
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Teaching With Books & Audiobooks
Audiobooks are becoming more and more popular among certain circles... Sight impaired and disabled people, frequent travellers and flyers and commuters to start with but also with people -like me- who regularly like to be told a good story... In our days...
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Nouvelles attaques terroristes concertées à Paris ce vendredi 13 novembre 2015
Cette nuit à Paris l'innommable et l'inénarrable ont encore eu lieu... comme il fallait s'y attendre avec un tel gouvernement ! Une fois de trop ! Bien sûr les dégâts et les dommages ne seront air réparables ni jamais réparés... mais il reste à souhaiter...
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TRANSIM 93, CHEREL, MÉDÉRIC, GIEP, ANGE, ... syndics à fuir absolument !
Une étoile c'est une de trop... Nous avons eu TRANSIM 93, CHEREL, MÉDÉRIC, GIEP, ANGE comme syndics depuis plus de 30 ans et ils trafiquent l'influence par tous les moyens... conseil syndical, actionnaires et sous-traitants... Au début des années 90,...
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Ancient Astronauts & Alien Theory
All the ancient people talk about -and describe in large details- aliens landing and taking off equipped with technology they couldn’t describe so advanced it was in comparison… The ancient Greeks had fire that burnt on water… on the sea… Millennia before...
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Yes We Can !
Some people come to me convinced they are hopeless at languages... There is no such thing as being unable to learn a language... proof is, everybody learns at least one ! And there are people in many parts of the world who learn a few to get through their...
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Testo di Mamma Margherita - Daniele PACE
C’è una cosa al mondo che io amo, considero bella più dolce di Dio, è lei… E’ più furba di una volpe, o anche lei ha le sue colpe, è religiosa rompiballe si, ma è lei.. Del resto ci è cascato anche mio padre, nel sorriso di mia madre. E sa di non aver...
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Tailgating...
Learnt this American word from a Judge Judy (who didn't know either) court case... A witness had 'tailgated' a football match... Upon the request of the 70 odd honorable American judge, the witness had to explain that this meant that... not being able...
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The Monolingual - Languages and What We Lose Without Them
Most people will tell you that languages open doors and bring opportunities on any job market... and then again most people know that... whether they do or don't speak other languages... What most people won't tell you is not speaking other languages...
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Where has all the good disco gone ?
I remember this couple from the eighties on the disco floors… Peaches and Herb… they sang their love away to the disco beat… where are they now… they really had class and even their sleeves were artful… we lived our love to them… and our nights were our...
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Narrators
I wish here to pay tribute to my narrators…. because they have also helped me… in more way than one and little do they suspect it… They have lent me their voices and given me time… and all the while pushed my writing further… more than airing me they...
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Hemispheres (excerpts)
Two faces to a top model… two faces away from a top model… Faced with modelling… Riding home on that too late train one night I was sitting next to that young African guy and couldn’t help looking at the half face that was facing me… when in a sigh he...
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Pop Music and Lyrics
More often than not pop music will not reaaly care for sophisticated lyrics... They might sing about love and their songs will go La Di Da and The Best Part Of Breaking Up Is In The Making Up... Trouble is today more and more people never take time to...
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Music Therapy (excerpts)
Tabula Rasa He had always loved music…. he had always listened to music… he had always had music… music was his best friend… music was his one true blue soul mate… he loved songs… especially those where the voice -or better still the words- the lyrics...
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La Comédie Musicale Française (extraits)
La comédie musicale française comme tous les artistes français en général ne pourra jamais avoir le succès qu’elle mérite… d’jà parce qu’elle n’a pas l’exposition… Dès qu’on essaie quelque chose en France, et avant qu’on ait pu ouvrir la bouche, il y...
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W&M - Annette BJERGFELDT at The Kissing Post
L'album d'Annette Bjergfeldt m'a été présenté par une amie... et je suis resté sous le charme ! Une jolie voix et des chansons originales, qui sortent du torrent d'insipdités que l'on nous déverse sur les radios... Des textes poétiques et hors du commun...
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W&M - Weekend Millionaire - Best of
Weekend Millionaire oscille entre Jonasz et Juvet... De l'excellent variété française... pour un public qui n'a pas vraiment rencontré ni le succès ni le public qu'il méritait... hélas ! Cette compilation reprend l'ensemble de la carrière avec l'évolution...
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Visionary Mountains - Book & AudioBook
Visionary Mountains arises from an idea I developed with one of my narrators Helen LLOYD… born of the pleasure of working together… Visionary Mountains is a collection of Helen’s choice of readings of some of my works from a reader’s point of view… very...
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Summer's Here (excerpts)
Summer’s here And now the colours of the rainbow are scattered all over the earth… And we’re here Sitting and watching in wonder… Enjoying the show… numb’s the word… Summer’s here And all the birds are singing filling all the trees with their music magic…...
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Je Suis Resté Disco (extraits)
Hé te souviens-tu de ces années D’adolescent tout couverts d’acné En discothèque les soirs d’été ? Je t’attendais… je n’ai pas changé… Je suis resté disco Je me souviens Comme tu dansais Comme tu chantais… Je me souviens Comme tu dansais Tu m’enchantais…...