Monday, May 05, 2008

Meeting misery!

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As is the way with my place of work, no opportunity is lost in a meeting to make your life just that little bit sadder. We have now ‘lost’ a...
Sunday, May 04, 2008

Broken stones?

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After almost two thousand pages of reading about Medieval Man’s attempt to build cathedrals and churches it was time for a counter blast to ...
Friday, May 02, 2008

Another cup?

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A couple of days’ holiday is too short for a real holiday but is an ideal opportunity to complete tasks which have been put off for too long...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

The Battle of the Cathedrals!

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I have been trying to work out why, in my opinion, Ken Follet is a better writer than Ildefonso Flacones. Other people, I know, would simply...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Weighed in the balance

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Today a glass of water in the face! Maybe that was a metaphor, but the effect was the same. For the first time for a long, long time I was o...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Faint praise?

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‘Cathedral of the Sea’ by Ildefonso Falcones is now read. I must admit that after the first few hundred pages I warmed to the narrative, but...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Sweetness and light!

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I think that it must be a Catalan rule of life that no self respecting inhabitant will park more than spitting distance from their destinati...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Cultural hopes

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I think that the definition of optimism is expecting to get a reasonably priced flight to somewhere interesting over a Bank Holiday. Or delu...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Put not your trust in manufacturers' promises!

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When the chronicles of this year come to be written there will surely be a chapter devoted to the time of trial that we have undergone. The ...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Books and things

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Yesterday was a holiday. At every street corner rather dubious looking characters were selling roses. It is the tradition within Catalonia t...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Who has time?

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No blog yesterday. When you are finally let out of the opera house at half past midnight there is little time left for the lazy pursuit of l...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Let Kulture Kommence!

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The Red Dragon has certainly been leading the way in my classroom today. My hapless pupils have started a week of helpless subjugation to my...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Another bloody Sunday!

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Today will be a test of the resilience of Catalan weather. When a day starts off being gloomy in my previous country you can guarantee that ...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Relentless reading!

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Today has started with an oxymoron. It is brightly dull or dully bright. It is not a convincing morning, neither one thing nor another. And ...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Are things looking up?

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Begone negativity! God knows there is enough to be negative about in my professional life, but in ‘sort of’ other terms, today has been good...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Kulture Kosts

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Today is not likely to be marked with a white stone. It took me one and a half hours to travel the 20 or so kilometres from Castelldefels to...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The dragons are coming!

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Culture Week approaches and I find I now know more about Welsh love spoons than is reasonable and proper. Those kids don’t know what they ar...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

An easy life

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The plot thickens. My future in primary education in my present school seems, how shall I put it: not necessarily long term. My worst fears ...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Oh, and another thing . . .

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As is usual in our school, every meeting has the quality of a scorpion: there is always a sting in the tail. This time the sting concerned t...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

And, relax!

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What a fine city Barcelona is! A walk along the sea front from Barcelonetta to Plaça de Catalunya shows the city at its best. From the intel...