Opinion Hugh Greenway
By Hugh Greenway (February 2010 Issue)
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I struggled to write my column this month. I only have a limited number of ideas and opinions about learning and I am fairly sure that I have covered them in my previous submissions. So I rooted about for ideas… something to get the creativity flowing.
Trouble is, this is February – a miserable, turgid month at the best of times with Valentine’s day lurking in the middle to remind many of us of the spark that is missing from our lives. The Anglo-Saxons called it Solmonath or ‘mud month’, which seems entirely appropriate (thanks Wikipedia) although it doesn’t have the highest rate of suicides (that’s May, according to the Priory Group via Google and the BBC).
Trouble is, this is February – a miserable, turgid month at the best of times with Valentine’s day lurking in the middle to remind many of us of the spark that is missing from our lives. The Anglo-Saxons called it Solmonath or ‘mud month’, which seems entirely appropriate (thanks Wikipedia) although it doesn’t have the highest rate of suicides (that’s May, according to the Priory Group via Google and the BBC).
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