Flashes of blogging

The pleasures of the summer. Currently I am working at a large number of jobs. Those of you who know me will know that this is not unusual. At the moment I am working at a school, offering private tuition and marking exam papers. Somewhere in amongst all of this, I also have to revise for more exams of my own, with the BPS and see about moving rooms on Friday.
Given this, I hope you can understand why blogging has been less fulsome than I would have wished. Still, I expect, as I am doing now a sneeky few minutes can be spent here and there writing about matters of life.
In the mean time, If anyone would like to nominate a personality for the week, I think this would be quite a fun way to make the slot more varied. So, if you feel the urge post a comment and I will consider the personality, or given a good reason why they were not chosen that week.

Personality of the week

To regular readers of the blog, you may have noticed that there has been a high number of white anglo-saxon males and (usually) protestant at that. Though this group has done much that is credible, the cafe wishes to acknowledge the very considerable part played in our world by people outside this group.

This week, then it is with great pleasure we announce….

Morgan Freeman – our congratulations to you a free cup of coffee awaits you at your convenience.

Morgan Freeman was born in 1937 in Memphis Tennessee. Despite humble circumstances early in his life he won a number of drama competitions eventually resulting in him winning a partial scholarship to Jackson state university – which he turned down in order to work as a mechanic in the United states air force.

During the 1960s-1970s, Freeman worked in a number of film related roles without really entering the big time. He worked as script writing assistant and also had a number of minor roles in films.

It was during the 1990s that Freeman came to popular attention. A number of strong supporting roles, which included the respected films ‘shawshank redemption’ and ‘Amistad’ raise his status to that of a house hold name. It is for this reason, Morgan, that we give you this week’s prize!

(my thanks to Wikipedia for the photograph)