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A useful morning reading & typing up materials for next year's new Language and Literature syllabus. It's more a question of what isn't relevant rather than searching for texts or topics to include. As always I over-estimate - knowing that when term begins, students sit in front of you and the weeks start to pass drastic cuts and compromises will have to be made. And it's always worth remembering that there's a year and a half for things to unfold. Impossible to do it all at once - and perhaps even unwise. By its very nature this course is going to require a different method, a different approach. Real time cooking rather than re-heating in the microwave. And as Olson said to Creeley: "You can learn something too."

Then, as if in reward, going down to prepare lunch I see there's a brown A4 envelope on the door mat. A book! And - of all things - "This is LSE: Language as a second English. English as a grammar of ghosts. Words as the snowfall of ideas" written on the back cover. Too much of a coincidence. A page or two of this has to go in.

Let's keep things open!

(Many thanks to Gary B..)