Month: December 2013

Speech 9 is going OK. I felt that I should say the date is the 20th January not 6th January. Gives me a bit more time.

The Ofsted organisation doesnt entirely approve of UTCs saying standards arent very high and it has the negative upshot of taking money away from the standard colleges that have been in our communities for 50 years. I will remark that it is up to indentured former students in the community like yours truely to steer the young in the right direction through pervasive influence and to keep a sensible lid on the credit taking that goes on in the ConLibs parties.

Keep calm and carry on.

Or ‘Keep an even keel’ as I used to say after I left UCE Architecture 20 years ago. Success will come- but not having the right motives if not got right at the start can stop you and make you miserable and unfulfilled. Cheers everyone…

December (c) 2013 Miles Whinfrey

My Story; Miles Whinfrey, aged 40 1/3
I was a Shire Lad from birth to the age of 6,
In 1979 I was a Hoosier,
Thereafter I was transatlantic like Rod Stewart,
I was academically neutral but essentially a humanist,
Lova De Pasta in 1982 during family visit, and laid Nonno to rest in 1988,
I went to University in 1993, multiculturalism,
and where no expense was sparred,
Some would say I walked a Mile in others shoes for a while,
others that I found my level,
I muddled through and kept my head down, didn’t get my head down,
Gradually qualifications materialised,
Suburban life lived, the commute to work, hardly grind,
I partook of finer things too,
I stood and stared my fair share- like I should have,
Constructed a presence in the psyche,
I gained acceptance in the Shire and was solvent,
That’s where I am now- what fun,
Where will ambition take me next?

Well its the 3rd of December and of course that means I must have done speeches 5 and 6. And I have!!!! Speech 6 was last night. That was the one on Julius Caesar by Shakespeare- and I think it went pretty well too. My nose was blocked up during the afternoon and I used some vick to snort to clear that but It didnt turn out to be a problem on the night.

Now onto speech 9: which is going to be on persuading an audience round to your arguements. I am going to argue that work development is now different from 10 or 20 years ago and that young people can learn discipline and skill from computer games and hobbies whereas that wasnt possible until up to the very recent past.

I have some clippings and web research to base this on so it wont be as messy and haphazard as one might think. Should be good- planned for the first week of January. Cheers everyone….