Sunday, April 05, 2009

One lump or two?

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Gravy is always the problem. As I had a window of opportunity today to have a meal which only I had to eat I decided to ‘do a British.’ I we...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

The days ahead

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The thing to remember is that I do not have a fortnight. After ‘x’ number of years (where ‘x’ tends towards lots) where the Easter holiday w...
Thursday, April 02, 2009

The sun will shine . . . tomorrow?

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As if to quieten my grumpiness about how much I am paid there is programme on television about how desperate the search for jobs is in some ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Damp Doubts

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Perhaps because it was raining I looked at my pay information with a jaundiced eye. I am getting almost exactly twice what an unskilled prod...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Life is long!

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Blake, so he wrote, found infinity in a grain of sand. He was obviously a follower of Mies van de Rohe and discovered that “less is more” lo...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Art and Protest

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However valid the reason for doing it may be, I always feel a little self conscious when traipsing along a busy street holding a union banne...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Solidarity!

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For what seems like the umpteenth time in succession the weekend dawns dull. Not only dull, but it actually has had the temerity to rain! Th...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Keep clicking!

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The computer has been the baleful presence in the staffrooms today. Our ecstasy of examinations has reached its apogee and all the results h...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Power of the Paper Clip

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With only an early morning’s reading of Stewart’s erudite email to strengthen and stimulate me I drove a very sleepy way to school to day. W...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mark well, my lord!

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There was only one topic of conversation at the lunch table today and that was examination marking. I was frankly astonished as I had though...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Let no one's work evade your eyes!

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There is a sort of corollary to an education system which is driven by examinations – and that is cheating. Yesterday in a geography and ci...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Please sir, I want some more!

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The first stage in securing some sort of job for next year has been reached. Like some sort of old fashioned suitor I have made my intention...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Party time!

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The meal, we were told, was for nine-thirty. Running a little late we arrived at nine-twenty. No one was there. We eventually gained admitta...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Who he?

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I don’t really do parties. However, I seem to have agreed to go to one in Sitges. This is all part of the aftermath of the meeting that I we...
Friday, March 20, 2009

In translation

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Never let it be said that I wasted an opportunity to spend Money. Disturbingly Word just capitalized ‘money’ without my asking. Perhaps it s...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Ruminations

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I am trying to think if there was ever a class in my last school where I could do what I am doing now: typing in class in relative silence. ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

First small step!

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So, a group has been formed. Not a monumental result perhaps, but as much as I could have hoped for in the circumstances. Parents, teachers ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A world too small for comfort

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I had my hair cut today. I left a pause there for the chortles of disbelief that might meet such a bald statement – pun intended! I rejected...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Hello reality!

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The honeymoon is over. I suppose that I should be grateful that my easy relationship with the pupils has lasted so long: two whole weeks and...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

A touch of months to come!

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Today is hot enough for sun cream, but the persistent breeze stops it being so like a summer's day that you can kid yourself that it has...