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Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's always one honest one ... the rest all had the same answer... and stayed quiet.

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LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

History was my least favourite subject at school. It was all wars. kings and wattle-and-daub. When they made GCSE syllabi they made some really interesting ones including history of medicine; there was even a GCSE in World History which focused on the 20th century and looked brilliant.
I hope your DS gets an interesting syllabus.

His school offers a choice - a conventional history syllabus, and the "Schools history project" syllabus that is thematically organised and includes such things as a section on "history of medicine through the ages". It's also supposed to involve much less reading of large wodges of text and more discussion in class - much more his style. He's been advised to do that one, and fortunately it fits in the boxes alongside his other choices.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Social history's interesting, so long as it's relevant. e.g. I couldn't give a tinker's cuss about some small village in a county I've never visited and have no visualisation of and no connection, or several degrees of separation from.

But a good, local, achievable, social history syllabus can be good.

I wish they'd had social history when I was at school, I didn't even know the words/name until the last 2-3 years. Lots schools hide so much about life/the world from you as they herd you towards the paths they have pre-decided you/your ilk/people in your village/town/whatever should be following. Although these days, with t'Internet, there's an opportunity to find out about things you never knew existed and become interested in them.

There are great videos on the web and I'd recommend the Big History TED Talk, part of a project. Or on a lighter note, this music video here!

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

Any fruit sorbet is basically made with stock syrup (equal amounts of water and sugar simmered until half the water has gone) with fruit puree.

Why not just start with half as much water?

GDB2222

Where would you recommend for a week's holiday that is:
Within say three hours flight of London
Sunny and warm
Safe, ie no riots, rebels or civil wars?

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

Why not just start with half as much water?

Because the sugar won't dissolve properly I think.

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Where would you recommend for a week's holiday that is:
Within say three hours flight of London
Sunny and warm
Safe, ie no riots, rebels or civil wars?

Got to be the med I suppose. Allthesses went to Malta recently- always fancied that.

Or Cyprus. Greece could be nice and cheap. Venice was lovely; got many good tips from other NPs.

Also fancy Turkey. Istanbul, though, nowhere bordering Syria.

Anywhere in the south Med's a bit unattractive right now. Spent a week in Tangier once but the hawker hassle's a bit wearisome.

Generali

Here's a question for the North Herts (aka Scottish) Nice People. Why do people use the French word for Scotland, 'Ecosse', on car stickers rather than Scotland or even Alba?

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Here's a question for the North Herts (aka Scottish) Nice People. Why do people use the French word for Scotland, 'Ecosse', on car stickers rather than Scotland or even Alba?

Don't know. When we went on holiday to France back in the 70s we used to use it all the time. You didn't need stickers to spot where in Britain a car was from back then, as Scottish number plates had an S or a G in the first three letters, and Northern Irish cars had no year letter.

I suppose France was the closest foreign country you could drive to from Scotland for a holiday.

If you lived in the south of England you could face driving to Spain, but from Scotland if you wanted to drive, anywhere beyond France would be a real stretch and require a flight.

Generali

I followed a car this morning in Paramatta NSW that had an Ecosse sticker that made me think of it.

I just tried the sorbet. Ooh that's good.