Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Anomaly

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Today has simply not been right. A day when everything has been vaguely unsatisfactory, or at least seemed so. There hasn’t been quite enoug...
Monday, March 31, 2008

What do you fear most?

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Terminal 5 has touched a deep fear in all true Brits. We fear that Terminal 5 is an accurate symbol of everything that we have become. Grand...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Tme for change?

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Tomorrow we look at another flat. We are fed up with the attitude of The Owner Squared. The Prime Owner is the Dominatrix of our school, but...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

In the name of Science!

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The horror! The horror! I slept in till after twelve in the afternoon. I put this down to the stress of the four days of this first week (De...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Moderation? Never!

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However much I despise Spanish television. And I despise it a lot. The interminable advertising breaks: truly a misnomer. Advertising is the...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Normality?

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Not a single cough last night! I feel as though someone has run over me with a steamroller and squeezed out every last ounce of vitality but...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

All that teaching!

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A full day of teaching. No frees. Just small noisy kids for hour after hour. And a colleague was absent, so we two remaining Year 3&4 te...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

And the sun shines!

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A day of glorious sunshine, unsullied by obtrusive clouds and warmth draining winds. And of course, at the same time, the first day of the s...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Prison shades!

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Last day of freedom! The wind has dropped. The sun is shining. And the case with the papers for the attempt at planning is now at my feet, w...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

This and that

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My joking assessment that the end of the holidays would see me just ill enough not to be able to stay away from school in all conscience see...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

I didn't expect the . . .

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I should have charged the camera before I went in search of the Hooded Christians. It always makes it less stressful if you have a fully cha...
Friday, March 21, 2008

You've got to laugh!

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On Catalan television (TV3) there is a show called ‘Polònia’, it is a satirical show which uses actors made up to look like national and loc...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

And so it goes on!

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Fewer coughs but not more happy. My self pity is still at seasonally high levels and is exacerbated by any clouds blocking the shining vitam...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Work Ethic Enlivens!

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In spite of feeling bloody awful this morning and an uneasy return to bed after taking Toni to work, where I spent my time not concentrating...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

What a way to spend your holiday!

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What better way to start Day 2 of your holiday by visiting the doctor? That may be a rhetorical question, but I can think of plenty of answe...
Monday, March 17, 2008

R&R - if only!

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Holiday! There is surely no harm in starting a holiday with a recitation of good intentions. I am about to write a list of tasks on Day 1 wh...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

The Gland Slam and other things of less importance!

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I herewith eat my own words. My defeatist cynicism on the success of Wales’ opening game in the Six Nations Championship was completely unne...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Check your food!

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Come with me as I take you back to the moral squalor of Renaissance Italy and the paranoia of life under the Borgias! Experience the terror ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

What's the tragedy today, Jim?

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Failed planning paled into insignificance after a hastily called meeting of the primary school staff this morning. What, you might ask was t...