Today I am sharing an extract from The Raven Tower by Emma Miles as part of the Mini Blog Blotz with Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources. A book that I would love to have the chance to read but time does not allow. Have a read of the extract and while you are here why not enter...
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I was speechless. Especially because this wasDouglas Hofstadter,one of my childhood heroes. It revealed acultural gapthat I had never imagined existed. See, for me, what you would find toward the right side of the scale, was a Jupiter Brain. Einstein did notliterallyhave a brain the size ...
9:48pm –*slurps from water bottle* 9:49pm –I really have to get my water drinking under control. 9:50pm –I wonder if you can drown from too much water drinking? 9:51pm –It’s funny how the world is mostly made up of water. 9:52pm –Not funny ha-ha, but just funny str...
met D. meet (Check the answers with the whole class.) Suggested answers: 1.C “价格已经降了下来 ”,此处使用现在完成时表示现在时间内的已有状态。 2.D 从 since childhood 可知主句一定用现在完成时态, C 项用现在完成进行时,动词一般不 用状态动词。 3.B 甲没有认出乙的原因是乙刚理过发并戴...
Sun drenched summers, fun and laughter. Lager and black booze filled evenings and country pub lock-ins. A different terrain to our Southend childhood. Borocourt standing to attention faintly in the background. Carelessly, thoughtlessly ignored. A magnificently austere red brick gothic building. A...
My childhood was filled with these warm 【6】 (memory). 【7】 time flies! There have been good times and bad times, but you were always by my side. When I won a prize, you smiled and felt 【8】 (pride) of me. When I failed an exam, you comforted me. You always gave me ...
My brother Dave lived into his 70s but was plagued by the sequela from childhood polio and later PSP, a horrible neurological condition. I was not very close to Dave, which was unfortunate. As adults, I can’t say we had harsh words or some major point of conflict. I guess sometimes ...
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I start elaborating on my idiosyncratic relationship with my childhood best friend, Daria, but he gets sidetracked by Brad and keeps interrupting so I’m not sure how much I actually got through. What I meant to convey was that my now estranged BFF likely has undiagnosed Asperger’s, which ...