This week I read a Russian story. The Dun Horse Part One Long ago there was an old man who had three sons. The older sons were strong and handsome, they looked after the farm, but the youngest, was a crippled simpleton whom people called 'Ivan the Fool', he just sat all day by the […]

This is a true story. Anyone who runs a web site will be able to tell you how often they are attacked by viruses, trojans and worms. I am no exception, despite the fact that my sites are small, friendly and free to use I get my fair share of rubbish from the bored and […]

I am a great fan of Halloween. Not the trick or treat, stuff your face with sweets aspect, but the tradition of telling scary stories. It's something I grew up with, after all England is notorious for having more ghosts per square mile than any other country. So to celebrate Halloween here are two spooky […]

I have recently been doing a lot of redesign work on the Learn English web site. This means that I have been looking at some pages that I haven't actually looked at for some time. Yesterday I ended up on the Shopping Vocabulary pages. Under the naturally speaking section there are some useful phrases that […]

It's strange going home after some time away. Even though Germany is not that far from England and I have been home regularly over the past six years things seem to have changed a lot. For example on my return to Nottingham the first thing to greet me was the news that a 14 year […]

I know this is going to sound really naff, but I found myself on the web today. Not in my own web sites, but mentioned by name in none other than the Bangkok Post. The article Learning English? Try the Internet was from April 2004 and it talks (a little) about my web site. Even […]