A journey of a lifetime

Do you think that travelling can broaden your mind? Is there a difference between a tourist and a traveller ?
How about a slow route from London to Sydney?
An overland coach service, Oz-Bus, connects London to Sydney via an epic 92-day journey that travels through 17 countries. Tickets are on sale for £4399 per person and stops en route include Turkey, Iran, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia. How do you like the idea?

How to remember and learn difficult words

Do you want to know how to remember difficult spellings?
Want to know a secret about spelling? Good spellers use all sorts of ways and strategies to help them remember spellings.

Let me recommend you   http://www.howtospell.co.uk/

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The History of English in 10 minutes

The Landfill Harmonic Orchestra

Watch the video carefully. 

"A film about transforming trash into music ; about love , courage and creativity."

 "We shouldn´t throw away trash carelessly. We shouldn´t throw away people either."

I hope it makes you think !

British novelist Tom Sharpe dies

British comic novelist Tom Sharpe, who wrote the Wilt series and Porterhouse Blue, has died  at the age of  85.
The writer died in Spain, where he had a home in the coastal town of Llafranc. 

It seems he died due to complications from diabetes
The author, enjoyed huge success with his 16 novels, despite only starting his writing career at the age of 43.

Many of his novels, including Blott on the Landscape, became popular BBC television series.

His last book The Wilt Inheritance was published in 2010.

'Tom Sharpe was one of our greatest satirists and a brilliant writer: witty, often outrageous, always acutely funny about the absurdities of life,' Susan Sandon, Sharpe's editor at Random House, said in a statement.

If you want to read about his life click  here  ( Daily Mail Online )

Click here for  the BBC

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