Thursday, March 11, 2010

Bright but Cold

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Today is the sort of autumn day that you do not want in March when summer is supposed to be just around the corner. I am taking on the Spani...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Crumbs of cold

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Is there anything sadder than grubby remnants of slowly melting snow with roads and pavements glimmering with the off-white detritus of disc...
Monday, March 08, 2010

Climate and Climax!

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A thoroughly depressing wet Monday was made even more depressing by my loss of a non-contact period to take a lesson for a colleague who has...

Lost opportunity!

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“If I were you, I’d have the red rather than the White.” Or it may have been the other way round. Whatever! That was the sum total of my con...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

When I was a child . . .

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Proust may have re-invented the madeleine as a pastry to the past and a cheap way to travel through time but for me I discovered that it was...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

Always worth a visit!

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The barcarolle of barking which acted as a prelude to the breaking day went beyond a joke. It would appear that our next door neighbours (wh...
Friday, March 05, 2010

To sleep perchance?

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I have had more sleep over the past few days than is healthy or normal! I am now thoroughly fed up with the persistence of my cough and the ...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Cough consideration!

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With depleted forces in the English department in school things are a little strained as we try and cope without the support of external hel...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Coughs and capability

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As I wake up semi-comatose and go through the invigoration of my ablutions in a Zombie-like trance, automatically turning on the internet wi...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Weak flesh!

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This was typed on Monday 1st of March - Saint David's Day The jingoistic tie has created a more than satisfactory stir in the privileged...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Survival

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I am not sure how you judge a wine tasting, but the inability to talk the next day must be some indication of quality! During an excellent e...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

What money can buy!

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The old truism, “Be careful what you ask for because you might get it” came to mind last night when I went to get the cheese for the Wine Ta...
Friday, February 26, 2010

The Last Weekend!

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Things have got to change! Ah me! The wistful memories that such an injunction brings to mind! I wonder if I can still list all the times th...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Escape! Some hope!

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The Great and the Good (or at least the governing council of our school) has been visiting today. I am still no further forward in finding o...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Anything but school!

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The doors opened and we loungers outside shuffled in and on our names being called out we stood roughly in line and waited. I thought we res...
Monday, February 22, 2010

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A more than usually unpleasant day in school. I think that my patience for young humans is rapidly evaporating. I think that my expectations...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Home from Home

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The first gentle drops of rain started to fall as soon as I went out of the front door on our way to pick up Ceri and Dianne. By the time we...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Sod's Law.

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As if on cue the sun is shining: I only hope that it lasts into the afternoon so that my guests are greeted with a sight of my favourite sta...

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It takes a lesson where I am able to talk about “Of Mice and Men” to show me that there is still pleasure to be found in teaching! Obviousl...