The jubilee – 7 generations
Whether you are a royalist or not, the jubilee must have brushed past you at least a little this weekend.
I still have my mug from the silver jubilee, when I was still in primary school and remember how disappointed I was that we were on holiday in Devon for the street party our neighbours … Read more
Hope
This strawberry plant
reaching across grey, cold concrete
gives me hope.
Feelings its way to moisture,
a place to root
in fecund
deepness,
a place to
swell in a juicy
sweetness
of shining
brightness.
Trapped in deadly plastic
it reaches beyond its confines
for freedom,
stretching its cramped limbs
for space,
and blooming.… Read more
What kind of coach are you?
So there I was at a training day for facilitators for the National College of Teaching Leadership and I got talking to the woman next to me, as you do. She was a deputy head looking for her first headship and she’d just finished an NLP training.’ What kind of coach are you?’ she asked.… Read more