Tuesday, May 05, 2009

The early call!

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Leapt out of bed to the raucous sound of the alarm on the mobile phone and was brushing my teeth virtually before I woke up. An ugly welcom...
Monday, May 04, 2009

Present hope: future disaster!

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A sullen day with resentful, grudging sunshine at best and flat greyness at worst. With all my holiday reading done and dusted and the seven...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

The reading must go on!

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By way of a change I decided to go to Sitges to expose my crisping skin to further rays. But it was full so I came home again. My usual park...
Saturday, May 02, 2009

A just reward!

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You know what it’s like: you go out to the kitchen to make yourself a cup of tea to take onto the balcony after a hard afternoon sun bathing...
Friday, May 01, 2009

Pack the break!

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There is, I have discovered, a correct way of eating Crema Catalana. Lunch today was a fairly sophisticated affair as befits the first lunch...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Time for what?

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Well, my self-imposed time limit for positive news about my contract has passed so the soul destroying tedium of re-presenting my much toute...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The question is . . .

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Exam writing has now reached its peak in our school with emails flying from person to person and pen drives being plugged it right left and ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Expectations through work

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A full day in school and a union meeting after numbed me sufficiently that the writing of my blog yesterday was lost in a mist of tiredness....
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Cut and thrust in memory

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Shaving is a powerful process; especially if you are short sighted. The precision which a mirror encourages is largely wasted on the myopic ...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Reading in the gloom!

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With all the tasks that I had to do today what a shock it was that the one that I completed was reading the book! The book in question was ‘...
Friday, April 24, 2009

I know what I like

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“Why,” asked one of my pupils today, “are you so brown?” The answer is of course is because I am British. The Catalans are still in their sp...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Needing to know the unknown

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The Spanish obviously find difficulty with the meaning of some adjectives. Today, Sant Jordi – the National Day of Catalonia – was the occas...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A book in the hand is worth two in the shop!

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Blogging, I have often thought, can be like cleaning your teeth: something habitual and necessary, but not always a pleasure. Unless of cour...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

It's the season I suppose

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A glorious day which started with bright sunshine and yet another car crash and ended with thunder and lightning and torrential rain. I do w...
Monday, April 20, 2009

How long to the hols? Dear God!

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A sticky day today: definitely time for me to assume the mantle of the short sleeved shirt for my professional duties. The pupils are (disma...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Beware the Ides of Friday Night!

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Foolish boy that I am, I have ignored the age old traditions of teaching and I did not complete at least one piece of marking on Friday nigh...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

A long short week!

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Why is it that three day weeks seem more stressful to a full week? Or is that just a load of rubbish? I am tempted by how tired I feel to th...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

On show!

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The first opportunity to see my school in its public guise. This was the prize giving for the international literary competition that the sc...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Sun enough to brown!

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It says a great deal about my determination over the past week or so that my arrival in the staff room this morning was greeted by colleague...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The extra day

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The holiday ends in bright sunshine with fluffy white clouds on the horizon and very few people on the beach. But the people who are on the ...