Saturday, January 31, 2009

Reading and walking

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I am trying, without success, to wean myself from my dedication to my e-book reader. I am now fully addicted to obscure out of copyright pot...
Friday, January 30, 2009

It's not the giving . . .

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Some presents are clearly double edged. My mother made a clear distinction (which she explained very lucidly early in my life) between a ‘pr...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Throw away!

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Grovelling about in refuse bins! A sad illustration of the true state of affairs during a crisis! Late last night at the end of our street s...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Power of Art!

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At a time of economic meltdown, galloping unemployment, social unrest and growing chaos around the world it is always pleasant to see that a...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Reflections

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My time in my present school has come to an end with the return to health of the teacher whose place I took short term. An early blood test ...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Turning and turning

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A colleague told me that she had a book confiscated by another colleague because he felt that what she was reading was morally corrupting an...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Blow winds!

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Yesterday the whole of Spain was issued with a bad weather warning. Most of the warnings were about gales with especially attention directed...
Friday, January 23, 2009

It's more than the food.

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I am now the proud possessor of a Watford football club scarf. I found the thing waiting on my desk when I came to take one of my classes to...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Another day?

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What a long week! I have rarely been as tired as I feel today and there is yet another day to go before the justified relaxation of the week...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Vaulting ambition!

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There is, I swear a built-in self-destruct button in the human animal. Having been in my present school for a lengthy two days and being sub...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The hardened worker!

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Two days and exhaustion has taken on a whole new meaning! Getting to the school in the mornings with all the rush hour traffic is, I have di...
Monday, January 19, 2009

You cannot be serious!

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Omens and portents are for the weak minded and credulous. However . . . Before the crack of dawn, in Stygian darkness I struggled out of bed...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Tomorrow and tomorrow

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My getting up at a reasonable hour had little bearing on my complete indolence for the rest of the day! Except, can it be called indolence i...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

It's all a question of food

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The prospect of a Galician themed lunch saw me tootling up to Terrassa this afternoon. The pulpo was the tastiest and the tenderest that I h...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Time moves slowly, so slowly!

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I am very disgruntled. I go to a school for an interview for a job which isn’t there on a Tuesday and I have to wait until Friday – the best...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Language conflicts

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A moment of true excitement in the Spanish class! Not a general outcry of spontaneous delight at the rules governing the pronunciation of th...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Grave thoughts

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Having dispatched a few incomprehensible emails in response to those I sent out yesterday, I settled down to my day’s work. I have managed t...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Lofty ambitions!

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I’ve been to visit money today. The non job interview was in a private school high on the hill overlooking Barcelona in a ghetto of private ...
Monday, January 12, 2009

It's a conspiracy!

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Never in the annals of human duplicity have I seen such a blatant example of disregard for a fellow human being. It Catalonia it is regarded...