Ah there FOXY, please don't you start ? I've already had to be corrected by POIROT about her previous nickname 'detective', now you've added a similar epithet to your good self ?! :-( Now I'm really confused - either that, or I'm having another 'senior moment' ?

H E L P !!

o sung wu,

Not my previous nickname - but my present one...as in "Poirot".

You know, he of the mincing gait and the magnificent moustaches and the little grey cells?

Hi there POIROT...

A marvellous show ! My dear wife and I are dedicated viewers of the series, very ably carried, by the continued exemplary performances of David DUCHET as 'POIROT' and his indomitable 'aide extraordinaire' Captain HASTINGS ! That particular actors name momentarily escapes me ? However, so good is David DUCHET'S performance, I think he may well be 'type cast', which indeed would be most unfortunate ? Where do you think I get all my detective training from ? None other than from that curious little Belgian detective, Monsieur POIROT ?

And thank you too POIROT, for keeping me on my toes, so to speak ?

o sung wu,

Indeed David Suchet is typecast as Poirot, but it's not something he regrets. He filmed all of her novels and short stories, only finishing recently. He says he feels like he partly is Poirot - and they filmed the last novel "Curtain" in which Poirot dies, as the penultimate film, because he felt so emotional about it that he didn't want himself and the production team to finish off on that note....so they filmed another one last of all.

Agatha Christie's daughter actually put forward Suchet for the part - and wasn't she spot on!

Hugh Fraser played Captain Hastings.

Now there's a character with impeccable manners.

@Foxy, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 2:38:59 PM

Some mention needed of your sources. Eg.,
THEORY AND PRACTICE
Haim Ginott in Teacher and Child, 1972

There is a lot that has changed since then to make many children's lives unstable, and conflict-ridden too if the truth is told.

Children don't need any more lecturing, mind re-programming, generally being stuffed around, and guilt from the feminists and 'Progressives' interfering in the education system. They need the time (being there) and unselfish love of their parents and siblings that is most commonly found in the traditional family so despised by the feminists and 'Progressives'

Dear otb,

Well, fancy that.

I have referred to Dr Ginott in the past -
and even gave the title of one of his books.
He's written quite a few.
I'm flattered that you would go to all
that trouble to dig up the book I had mentioned
back then - and try to somehow smear me with it.

Now why do you suppose you would go to all that troubel
and do that?

As for the fact that things have changed in education in
recent years? That all depends on what you're talking
about.
I deal with teachers, schools, and school-children,
university and college students, on a regular basis.

On what evidence do you base your theories.

Now for your consistent references to Feminists and
Progressives ... Do you have anything new to say.

We know! We know!
According to you
its those horrible Feminists, Progressives, Fabians,
Emily Listers, handbag hit-squad, Socialists,
and anybody else - whose views happen to
disagree with yours
That are the cause of all of society's problems.