Monday, July 06, 2009

It does strike twice

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There is a play by Gogol called ‘The Lower Depths’ which I know I have read some time back in my even more pretentious youth, probably set i...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

The sun will shine tomorrow!

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I have experienced many lifetimes since I last took finger print to key. I feel like some Buddhist illuminates who knows that he has died a...
Monday, June 29, 2009

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As if to drive in the knife of viciousness a little deeper into the depths of my unreal tiredness the road to work today was one continuous ...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Time has stopped

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Two and a half days of moving and it is still not over. We haven’t even begun to clean the flat to ensure that the Owner has not justificati...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Would that this would end!

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Anyone who says mid way through a move that, “the worst is over” is not only tempting fate but also showing a shocking lack of experience in...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Sign!

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Ah the happy hunting of the elusive ISBN number! The stalking of texts through the rough undergrowth of badly organized web sites! Another r...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

A day without pupils is like . . . .

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Arrived an hour early for school which does not start until 9.00 am. The (very civilized) time table for the rest of the term has now appear...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The day after the night before

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After a combination of red wine, cava and sangria, together with high velocity rockets and sundry explosions I took to my bed at a relativel...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

A day nearer!

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Plastic flags of all nations on a string are not the same as their cloth equivalents. There is something silted about the ‘flap’ of a plasti...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Illusions shattered

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The new watch is not waterproof. Yet again my innocent credulity has been cruelly abused and this disappointment makes it round about exactl...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

End in sight?

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A minor lie in and then to work. Apart from a spectacularly fine lunch at a local restaurant today has been one to put down to the horrors o...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

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I am magnanimous enough to admit that I was in the wrong. To finalize the administrative details of my arrangement with El Corte Ingles (so ...
Friday, June 19, 2009

And week will have an end . . .

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This week has been five days of Fridays. Each time I came home it felt like the end of the week and my body and brain behaved accordingly an...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Festivity? At a time like this!

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It is obviously a good thing to have a break from packing; you return refreshed and less suicidal. This is the theory. Going to Marc’s First...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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Failure in the exams in our school comes with the delight of a ‘recuperation’ examination. The period from the time of failure to the taking...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I would have money!

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Given the absurd opening hours of my appalling bank (BBVA) I can never actually get to it when it is open until the summer holidays. One pro...
Monday, June 15, 2009

The school in limbo

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Today external examinations and lists flying around as if there was no tomorrow. Pupils had to remember to bring their identity cards for th...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Tome by tome

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To say that all my books are packed would be to tempt fortune. A true bibliophile ensures that ‘fixes’ of his particular drug of choice are ...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Long Fridays are bad for the health

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Friday 12th June 2009 Somehow the magic of teaching does not reach into the late, late afternoon when the class that you are taking has spen...