The collection features poetry written daily during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically during the period of shielding in the UK. The author embarked on a personal challenge to capture their experiences and emotions through verse, culminating on July 31, 2020, as lockdown restrictions began to ease. This work reflects the unique challenges and introspections faced during isolation, offering a poignant glimpse into life during a global crisis.
Tips and Tales
Steve Gregory's upbringing in rural Ontario is enriched by diverse experiences, including a transformative three-year stint living overseas. This background shapes his perspective and informs his journey, offering a unique lens through which he views the world. The narrative explores how these varied experiences contribute to his personal growth and understanding of different cultures.
Focusing on the aftermath of a significant journey, the narrative outlines a decades-long process filled with challenges and personal growth following an accident. The author shares valuable lessons learned through trial and error, emphasizing perseverance in the face of adversity. Written after the pressure of performance has subsided, the insights aim to guide readers towards achieving a positive outcome from what initially seemed like a disaster.
This engaging, vibrant A2 Student Book is packed full of the latest research to inspire and motivate students.
Enjoy a travel tale and a cryptic crossword on each of the 53 weekends possible in a year. Unconventional, quirky and generally light-hearted, the tales range from circumnavigating the globe by cargo/passenger and migrant ships and driving an ageing car from Paris to Tehran over bad roads in winter and mostly at night, to hitchhiking in kilts around Europe. Selling patent medicine in rural Malaya in the early 1960s, surviving an earthquake and its aftermath in Tehran, and hearing of JFK's assassination from a Chinese gangster in Kuala Lumpur all feature. There are rants about unsatisfactory toilet blocks in caravan parks and travellers who cap one's stories; raves about Star Bars and Star Stays; essays on Currywurst and the town of Condom; and there are more than 150 photos, a few poems and one recipe. The cryptic crosswords are modelled on those in The Times, but perhaps slightly easier.