Instructions can be seen all around us in our daily lives. For example, on packets of food, in manuals or guidebooks, and even on the roads and streets outside. An instruction manual tells the reader ...

Instructions tell us how something should be done. They guide us, step by step and in the right order, so that we can achieve our goal. You need instructions if you want to bake a cake or cook a meal.

On the 26th December 1900, a small ship was making its way to the Flannan Islands in the remote Outer Hebrides. Its destination was the lighthouse at Eilean Mor, a remote island which (apart from its ...