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Con nuestros Mejores Deseos para… With our Best Wishes for… 2023

Con nuestros Mejores Deseos para… With our Best Wishes for… 2023

Como cada año queremos expresar nuestros mejores deseos en 2023 para todos nuestros seres queridos, familia, amigos, antiguos y actuales alumnos, colaboradores y lectores. Y al igual que en 2018, 2019, 2020 y 2021, Victor Nash se ha encargado de dar vida, diseñar y dibujar el tema de este año: Like every year we would like [...]

Past and present come together

Past and present come together

Summer 2014. South England This post was meant to be typed and ready for the 1st of July, on the 3rd anniversary of Vernon’s death. I didn’t manage to finish it, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I do not wish his birthday to pass without publishing it. I hope our friends [...]

Vernon Visits Spain for the first time

Vernon Visits Spain for the first time

Remembering Vernon- On the third birthday after his death, two years ago. Two years have gone by since Vernon’s death and two - three years have passed since we left him with Joe Cocker’s band at the American bases in and around Orleans, in France. During those years, sometimes there wasn’t any work with the [...]

23rd, 26th & 27th July 2021 have been days of celebration at PoppieS

23rd, 26th & 27th July 2021 have been days of celebration at PoppieS

The lists of successful candidates for the permanent position of English Teachers at Secondary Schools in Castilla La Mancha, Navarra & Madrid were published on 23rd, 26th & 27th July: CONGRATULATIONS to the 20-odd successful candidates who prepared it with PoppieS, for 2 or even 3 years because of the Covid-19! Here’s to you [...]

Honouring Vernon’s memory

Honouring Vernon’s memory

On Vernon’s 2nd anniversary. His memory and his stories are and will always be with us. This is one of the first I heard from him, and I am reproducing it as he wrote it, with some edits which aim to improve the flow and rhythm he always rendered to his oral stories. Members of [...]

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