Waffle and Writings! for Saturday, June 7, 2008

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/ As it is free to Air TV the show can be downloaded from the net..it really is a fun and interesting show. Enjoy those of you in other parts of the world apart from Australia and let us know if there is anything similar in other countries. Sign in to see full entry.

I used to read anything I could get my hands on when I was a kid growing up in the country in outback Australia. I lived with my father and two younger brothers and my mother on a property (farm or ranch in USA terms). I learnt to read and remember having problems reading aloud between the pronunciation of 'through' and 'though'. At one stage my parents had hired a retired school teacher a Mr Vaughan who used a cane to switch us into line. Every time I read one of those words wrongly he wacked... Sign in to see full entry.