Oh Damien's great too! I'm fuming that he and the Demon Barbers aren't at Sidmouth this year...


From Diane: (countess)>>>Dyslexia a gift?
That's fucking preposterous.
It's nothing more than a learning difficulty, of which everyone has one or several.
That's what school is for, to learn how to overcome them asap, not under the auspices of airy-fairy, drippy-hippy so-called 'natural' teachers but properly trained ones.<<<


Don't be a twit Diane. You can't 'overcome' Dyslexia. You're born with it, pure and simple. However, what dyslexic people do have to learn how to overcome is the ignorant, unpleasant and disturbingly stupid opinions of people such as yourself.

Most people with dyslexia are able to do this of course, because with dyslexia also comes a deep intelligence. And school is not, as you would have it be, some sort of SS Academy run by Miss Trunchbull's...although sadly we have a Trunchbull Government in charge at present, who are determined to put half the population in The Chokey...

Below is what school should be for:



"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die." John Taylor Gatto


The Wisdom of John Taylor Gatto

And this Diane, is especially for you:

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler


And now....back to Seth Lakeman

Seth Lakeman's Wikipedia page