28 September 2007: the bad cook

I often quietly confess to groups of slow readers that my secret is that I find cooking difficult. I hate cooking because I am so bad at it. I use lots of excuses not to cook. I am better at making excuses than at cooking!

Friends, who are good cooks, do more cooking because they like it and so, through practice, get even better.

I ask the children if it is the same for them with their reading. They look relieved as they say it is just the same!

But now I have found something else I am not good at...building this web site! I struggle and fret and know all my friends are better at it than me. You see, I have this dream, that this show-me-wow web site will one day go all round the world, helping teachers in poorly resourced schools. I am determined to achieve this dream, especially when I, like the pupil below, see a globe, On this particular little globe, Dominica is a tiny spot. But it is certainly there. So from little spots, mighty web sites grow. So I'll go on web siting as I shout over my shoulder, "Darling, what's for supper?"