Saturday, October 03, 2009

The days merge

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The journey to school yesterday was only marginally intolerable. I am starting off in the dark and grinding my teeth with frustration as the...
Thursday, October 01, 2009

What were you saying?

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After an hysterically enthusiastic conversation in what I take to be Spanish with a member of the office staff, I have decided (yet again) t...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Unconsidered trifles!

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There must (surely) be a reason why I have a pair of (clean) underpants (mine!) in my briefcase. I half remember something from the end of l...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Every day has an ending

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One of the many pleasures in this country is going to a nondescript bar/restaurant in the centre of town on the Ramblas (well, our version i...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Whoops! There goes another one!

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I now have some idea of what the Berlin Airlift must have sounded like. I understand from an aeronautically inclined friend that Castelldefe...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

"Poop poop!" said Toad

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The worst thing about Spanish roads is their sheer inconsistency. Yesterday I went to a friend’s house for lunch. She lives in ‘the hills’ a...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

As your fancy takes you!

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Sitting on the balcony of the eyrie in the morning sun drinking tea from my grandmother’s Royal Albert and reading ‘Lycidas’ by Milton may n...
Friday, September 25, 2009

I'm a lumberjack and I'm . . .

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There is something shockingly vandalistic about destroying a tree. Even a tree that has been reduced to a series of truncated stalks with an...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

A day of vistas

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A few fugitive moments before I am dragged away from the comfortable seclusion of the staff room in building 4 and have to face my sixth for...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Friday tomorrow?

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There is a definite feeling of end of term about the staff room this week – just because we have a three day week! Don’t knock it, the feel...

Friday tomorrow?

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There is a definite feeling of end of term about the staff room this week – just because we have a three day week! Don’t knock it, the feel...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Speeding days!

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A third of my working week is already over (Oh Joy! Oh Happiness!) – two more days and then a four day holiday! The not so good news is abo...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Re-reading is a way of life!

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In his latest missive from the Imperial Capital of Beijing Robert wrote that he was “re-reading Arthur Ransome. Listening to Just William on...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

A lost day?

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Where was Friday? This can be explained by the simple equation “Home = Sleep” I came home and I echoed Bottom when he said, “I have an expo...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Hi Tech Frustration

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Another brightly dull day with rain and the threat of rain. As is always the way in these sorts of climatic conditions there is always the P...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

It was still dark!

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Today did not start well. I leaped out of bed at some ungodly time of the night to prepare myself for the early start of school. When I was ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Hard Reality

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What an effete lot we are! Two weeks (9 days really) of half days without the kids, then we start work with the kiddies and now, by Wednesd...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Here we go again!

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I don’t think that I have ever seen swing ball used with such vicious intent to maim as illustrated by the sweet young innocent pupils who e...