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Phoenix writers’ group Horwich Bolton: Being six again!

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Yesterday we had a lovely session where we were encouraged to remember a time at home or in the garden, when we were about just five or six years old. This memory was instanteous for me and I can still feel the soil on my hands. Chapel-en-le-frith was hard to spell and once learned, lingered [...]

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Private English Tutor/Tuition Manchester, Bolton, Bury: Shena Mackay’s The Orchard on Fire: Descriptive Writing at its best!

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Unlike so many books that explore the betrayal of friendship and of trust, this book upholds the precious sanctity of love that transcends even death. I can never read this book without knowing that the atheists are wrong, that love does transcend all other petty emotions and delusions, that writers can change our worlds and [...]

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AQA/WJEC/Undergraduate English Literature: Analysing a text

Monday, January 30th, 2012

PART ONE. On Saturday I was enjoying a thoughtful discussion of Susan Hill’s novel, The Small Hand. We were analysing the opening line of Susan’s Hill’s ghost story, and exploring several of the different aspects and implications of the opening. Thinking about this exercise, I do feel that a ‘successful’ textual analysis might have certain similarities to [...]

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English Tuition in Bolton and Manchester: Why enthusiasm makes ‘me’ feel better!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

I was thinking about enthusiasm last night. I went to my daughter’s parents evening with my daughter(how things have changed for the good!) and couldn’t help noticing how we left certain rooms with different levels of energy and smiles. This was accumulative over the two hours we were there and then this morning, driving home [...]

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Pablo Neruda: Too many Names- a tusi bite.

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Pablo Neruda’s poem embraces the suffering endured by human beings because they choose to differentiate themselves so keenly and resolutely from one another. The I/thou relationship so fraught with misunderstanding, isolates the self, weighting the ‘I’ with the unbearable burden of being. Yet ‘all of us are dust and sand.’ We have lost our [...]

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George Herbert’s The Flower: An Analysis and Tusi bite.

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

‘I once more smell the dew and rain.’ This is a truly rejuvenating poem, acknowledging human error and frailty, yet also celebrating the power of spiritual connection; the healing of perception through humility and the imagination untrammelled by pride and worldy ego. No matter how bleak the time or the experience, simple pleasures in being can rescue [...]

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Jeanette Winterson’s Rapturous visit to Manchester’s Royal Exchange!

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Jeanette Winterson’s reading of her new book, Why be happy when you could be normal? at the Royal Exchange on Sunday 30th October was wonderful in the most real sense of the word. She read parts of her autobiography almost in a trance like, dancing way, as if the words had come back to her from [...]

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Bolton School Entrance Examination Tip Six: Word pools for essays

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Writing an essay or a story under examination conditions can be stressful and mind draining! We can feel as if our words have left us-and fled to some faraway place where we cannot find them, let alone spell them properly! So my tip today is a practical tip. It works just as easily with GCSE [...]

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Tusi-bites: Henry V and the rule of three by Janet Lewison

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

”We few, We happy few, We band of brothers.” Agincourt beckons and Shakespeare’s King Henry V is trying to rally a beleagured English army before they they face the French who outnumber them. This line is very famous for its patriotic sentiments and potency. Olivier’s film in 1944 was used for propaganda to lift the British [...]

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Charles Dickens’ Masterclass on place in A Tale of Two Cities.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

”Such a staircase, with its accessories, in the older and more crowded parts of Paris, would be bad enough now; but, at that time, it was vile indeed to unaccustomed and unhardened senses. Every little habitation within the great foul nest of one high building–that is to say, the room or rooms within every door [...]

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