Friday, February 01, 2008

Carnival!

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The kids were as high as kites today in expectation of the King. Not, I hasten to add, His Majesty King of Spain but an august personage of ...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Just a little hem!

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And now for a test of my dressmaking skills. The day of the Carnival Parade is almost upon us. Only a few short hours and our classes will b...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Choices: style or effect

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Is my school ready for my Herod costume? This is the sort of pressing question which taxes my brain nightly. The Parade for the Carnival Kin...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Text denial!

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When was the last time I read a book? Aunt Bet sent me a copy of a Tolstoy story which I devoured: though I am still trying to work out the ...
Monday, January 28, 2008

You know it's worth it!

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For my father the whole practical benefit of my education was demonstrated one Christmas when, using my trusty compass I constructed a six p...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Knit up the ravelled sleeve or something

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Some people are good at lie-ins; I am not. I think it is the combination of a dash of protestant work ethic added to a broth of Welsh non-co...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Once,yes, once for a laugh

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This morning developed my sympathy for Sisyphus and his never ending task. OK house cleaning is different in many ways from rolling a rock b...
Friday, January 25, 2008

Just another day in . . .

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I arrived at school this morning (Friday) to find it locked! It was, to put it mildly, a surprise to find that the institution was not avail...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

The end of times?

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Be very scared when a Catalan driver waves to admit a mistake! My drive to work this morning was almost the last I made. The vacant attitude...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Now might I do it . . .

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Appearance and reality was a concept which I found pretentious and sententious when I was doing A Level and studying ‘Hamlet.’ Now I find th...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Ah well!

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Shades of the metaphorical prison house are hastening towards me at a frightening rate! There seems to be no area for compromise between my ...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

A picture is worth . . . ?

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In a rented flat the question always facing you is how much damage can you reasonably do. The problem, of course, is pictures. We have been ...
Saturday, January 19, 2008

All is ashes!

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It was good but it didn’t convince me. I suppose that bel canto opera buffo is a taste which appeals to those dedicated opera enthusiasts wh...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

To see the sea!

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Although most of my way to work is thorough tunnels the momentary glimpses of the landscape make the journey one of continuing interest. The...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Eat it and see!

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Just when you think that life is a sterile promontory bereft of anything to excite the jaded palette along comes something to restore one’s ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

What next!

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Never a dull day in my present employ! I will say this for being a member of a small staff; you constantly find out things at a speed which ...
Monday, January 14, 2008

A small thing, but . . .

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Today it was crisps. The imperious indication of the Lady High Dinner Lady and I meekly doled out fat laden potato slivers to the kids. I ca...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Good things have to end

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I am ashamed to admit that there is still an overflowing box of Christmas decorations in front of the fireplace and three parts of a dismemb...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Eating Proust's Cake

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Thanks to Colin in New Zealand I was able to order up a few tracks to my past. When I was in Swansea University it did not have a full Art o...
Friday, January 11, 2008

A New Nadir!

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Yesterday lunchtime I had to do a duty. Something which we British teachers thought was a battle fought and won means nothing in this school...