I have rummaged round shops all over Europe and garage sales in America. I have hung about in Arab souks and Indian bazaars, but I have never seen anything quite like my grandmother’s elephant.
I screamed. Then, my heart pounding, and probably still screaming, I grabbed a handy can of insecticide. He ran at me but I jumped out of the way and he scuttled out of the kitchen…
The idea of the cooperative is one of the greatest British inventions. It all began with a small shop in Toad Lane, Rochdale in Lancashire. The “Rochdale pioneers” wanted to change the world.
Are you convinced that your government is in contact with UFOs? Do you get the feeling that we are being watched? Then you are probably a believer in conspiracy theories.
Hot and cold, rich and poor, wet and dry, island and land-locked, the Commonwealth countries look like a list of opposites. Just what do they all have in common?
This simple tale (taken from Aesop’s famous stories) shows that what may be a good place to live for one person may not be good for another. Are you a town mouse or a country mouse?
This is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page. Now, I just like books. I'm reading about six simultaneously.
What does the term ‘racial discrimination’ mean? It means to treat a person differently based on race rather than capability. In most countries, this is considered against the law.
It seems that the impulse to make inanimate figures move and talk is a very natural one, and that's exactly what puppets are all about. And that's probably why they've existed for thousands of years.
For as long as humans have existed there has been a need to transfer information between people in different places. Writing made messages easier, but getting your message to the right place, on the other hand…
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