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Sounds like it should be the British national anthem doesn’t it but there is a more serious side to ‘catching some rays’. For nearly a decade now, the medical profession has been warning the public about the dangers of exposure to UV-A and UV-B light from the sun. The ultraviolet light causes changes in molecules in the skin causing the ubiquitous sunburn but it can also cause changes in cells making them cancerous. In 2011, nearly 12,000 cases of skin cancer were diagnosed in the UK with just over 2,000 people dying from the most serious type – melanoma. 

We Brits are probably the laziest in the world – and I don’t mean for getting nothing done – I’m referring to learning languages. I’m a schoolteacher by profession and have spent many years trying to encourage hundreds of children to learn conversational French. Invariably I find an inability, bordering on an unwillingness to learn, grounded in centuries of ‘the Empire’ where the xenophobic attitude of ‘why can’t they speak English’ still prevails as if it’s hereditary.