Monday, March 10, 2008

Time is an illusion!

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When is the end of term not the end of term? Answer? When you work in a private school in Sitges. I have already been informed that the term...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

Change?

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Today is the general election which will decide who is going to be president of Spain. A suitably dull day for what to my monoglot ears has ...
Saturday, March 08, 2008

So much for jabs!

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A couple of days of self pitying cold symptoms and I shun the typewriter. There’s an archaic word for you! As I have been feeling sorry for ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

The hand of the law

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My days are numbered. I wait in fear and trembling for the soft thud of envelope hitting the floor. Justice will prevail. A flash of light w...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Meat is murder! Sometimes.

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My new found vegetarianism (in school only) is having mixed results. The Dinner Lady is frankly sceptical; not about my particular case, but...
Monday, March 03, 2008

Family Life

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Today was not the day to develop a runny nose. This evening saw me set off with Buddhist calm into the extended traffic jam which is the coa...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

Pondering the wind!

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Castelldefels was packed today. It was as if there was something going on that I didn’t know about. A holiday, a fiesta proclaimed to all th...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

Training!

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As far as I am aware, this is the first time in my life that I have spent Saint David’s Day outside my country! Apart, that is, for a few ti...
Friday, February 29, 2008

Hearing is not convincing

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It comes to something that the highlight of my week was winning the ‘Best Kept Classroom’ award! To the absolute delight of my class the scr...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

The clock is ticking!

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Do you know how to turn your fog lights on? This was a pressing problem while ducking in and out of tunnels and in and out of patches of fai...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Good Life is Good for You!

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Tired and drained? Why not try a lobster paella with a sturdy house vino tinto and a mediocre crema catalana? It worked for me! There is not...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The memory of times past!

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No more night school! The chore of having to go to the local language school and teach a small group of 11+ kids is at an end! Having now ac...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Scream or screen?

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The screen has arrived! Never mind the events rocking the world outside the small sector of education which is my professional life; the scr...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Tea is life!

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There are few things that show up the vulnerability of the British than a faulty kettle. It is never a pleasant thing to discover that you a...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Wipe it off!

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Never let it be said that I do not make an impact in educational circles. When I was in Llanedeyrn High School I was instrumental in getting...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Break a leg!

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What drama queens young children are! Tomorrow is the assembly for my class and I have written a short script to ensure that all members of ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

They Shall Not Pass!

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After a few days of positively Welsh grey gloom, Castelldefels finally squeezed out a few minutes of vapid sunshine. I have been in a foul m...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Comrades Unite!

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Simmering rebellion characterises the atmosphere in our school. Things are not, as you might say, hunky dory. Apart from that being the firs...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Learn to love it!

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How bad can shopping really be? Toni has what amounts to a pathological hatred of the whole process. This is part of that kaleidoscope of hu...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

A time to note

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It has taken me the whole of my professional life and the move to another country, but I have now matched my mother in her first year of tea...