Sunday, June 07, 2009

Tradition has a reason!

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I can relax: I marked one question in one examination paper before I went to bed last night (Friday.) In the strange job-related psychology ...
Friday, June 05, 2009

Variety makes the day

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Just when you think that you have met the apogee of nastiness is when you find out that there is a further depth that you did not suspect. L...
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Changing times

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In spite of the fact that I had the opportunity to have a lie in today but the built in alarm clock would not allow such indulgence and I go...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Consider the house for a moment

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A long day today with the loss of a free period and therefore having to stay with the same class for two hours, the last hour of which was t...
Monday, June 01, 2009

All change!

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Never let it be said that I don’t try and find something interesting to start off a new month. Well, for me anyway. We’re moving. The deed h...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Gather your belongings!

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Up bright and early to find a new place to live. Having decided that our Owner is little better than the Attila the Hun of flat management w...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

I did it with my little hatchet!

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As the relentless exposé of The Daily Telegraph continues it is time for me to ‘come clean’ before the evidence is placed before the howling...
Friday, May 29, 2009

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There comes a point in every non-football-interested thinking person where you have simply had enough Barça! That point has been reached by ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

What game?

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The tension in Catalonia is almost palpable. I don’t know how many people are actually playing in the game this evening in Rome, but from th...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Is anything else going on?

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The frenzy of The Game continues to increase. On Catalan television there is virtually non-stop coverage of the game which is not happening ...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Listen to the world!

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A truly depressing start to the day with mist (at best) and muggy fog (at worst) with fewer people seemingly intent upon death by mangled me...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

A half lost day or not

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Sometimes it’s nice to have a day when your body simply takes over and orders the agenda. Yesterday was a case in point. The Family visited,...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Stone culture

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A day of double culture – as well as multiple teaching opportunities! It has now been confirmed that my present contract ends at the end of ...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Test 'til you drop!

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Our examination production is now reaching a level of frenzy. The one saving grace is that the head of English has solid common sense and do...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Mark, learn and inwardly digest

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This has been a day when, apart from a slump on the balcony when I arrived home has been continuous academic action – stretching I might add...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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I was offered a view of the easy life today. Photocopy a test which will take up an entire period and laugh your way through minimal marking...
Monday, May 18, 2009

The early worm has got it wrong!

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I set off for school extra early to avoid any chaos which might result from the opening of the new terminal in Barcelona Airport. The new te...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

But that was in another country, and besides . . .

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When a country with pretentions to some sort of independence is actually ‘governed’ by co-princes comprising the head of state of another co...
Friday, May 15, 2009

It's all in what you think

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One must have faith. The trial of my belief afforded me the opportunity to show that I had become comfortable in what I believe. I could hav...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

A test of patience.

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No time can be truly happy when you know that you have to visit a Spanish post office at the end of the day. I have tried to develop a hard ...