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Parade is told Kelso High’s famous Cirkus Surreal, fresh from their international tour, are back with what is being billed as their biggest show yet.
In celebration of Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve will present a darker side of the troupe that, Parade is told, will send shivers down the spine of the whole family.
The performance showcases the daring acrobatic and aerial skill of a range of students between the ages of 13 and 18 from Denison College Kelso High Campus.
The show is complete with special effects, stunning costumes and the spectacle audiences all over the world have come to expect from Cirkus Surreal.
The show will begin at 6.30pm in the Kelso High gymnasium this Friday and Saturday.
Tickets are available from the school on 6331 3755.
It sounds quite confusing to him
AND now another instalment in Parade’s long-running “English is hard” series.
Helping his young nephews with their school spelling words over the past year or so has been an opportunity for Parade to see the language – all its quirks, inconsistencies and tricks – through the eyes of someone discovering it all for the first time.
This week, Parade was doing some “A” words with the oldest of the two boys.
“Aloud,” Parade told him, then (as is traditional) used the word in a sentence. “I read the story aloud.”
A few words later, the word was “allowed”.
“Allowed,” Parade said. “I told him he was not allowed.”
Parade’s nephew let his pen hover over his paper.
“Aloud is the same as allowed?” he asked Parade.
“Well, they both sound exactly the same, but you spell them differently and they have completely different meanings,” Parade said.
“And how do you know which one someone means?” Parade’s nephew asked.
Parade had a think about it. “Well, you just do,” he said in the end, a bit pathetically.
It doesn’t seem like a very good system, when you think about it. Parade wonders why it’s allowed.