Apparently, yet another series of The Great British Bake Off will be starting later this month. I’d like to say I care, or that I’ll be watching, or that I own a TV, or indeed am remotely interested in spending my evenings cheering and swearing at a group of people
In my very first year at senior school, a teacher gave an excellent assembly in which he told the tale of those four well-known characters, Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. It’s quite a popular story – you might have heard it before. It’s called ‘That’s not my job’: There was
In 2005, when I was finishing my Masters at Nottingham University, I had a job one afternoon a week at a primary school. The school’s excellent music teacher was not a pianist, so I was recruited to sit in the hall at the tinny but serviceable upright, and accompany each
