Monday, May 03, 2010

And the rain it raineth every day!

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As the rains lash down I contemplate a day which is going to stretch into the dim distance which is misty with the miasma of total boredom. ...
Sunday, May 02, 2010

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The marking has ground to a halt because too many students are getting things wrong! The specific detail in which we have to teach reported ...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Long days do end!

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I am incandescently tired and have reached that point of exhaustion that one begins to suspect that there is another universe tucked away be...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Timing is the key!

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I have now checked through yet another examination and it is ready to be printed. The answers have been written out for the examiners and I ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Realistic goals?

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The only reason I can approach my keyboard with anything other than despair is that I am on schedule! With an effortless approach to chaos o...
Monday, April 26, 2010

The teachers' burden!

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Tomorrow the next examination spasm starts erupting and I have spent the first part of this evening writing part of an exam which is due to ...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Don't touch tradition!

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When I last met her on the island of Majorca two years ago she was elegant, poised, articulate, flattering and not a little unsettling. I me...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Old Guard Win Again!

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Friday was a day of a double whammy. In the first place there was the Invisible Friend. The books (note the plural) that I bought for my I.F...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

It's the waiting!

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The fever of expectation about Sant Jordí shows itself in a growing dread about the organization of the event in school. Already horror stor...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Books as displacement activity

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For the second day running we have woken up (I have woken up) to a mysterious street filled with wispy mist with totally artificial looking ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Word and boot

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In spite of the spirited searching by the elegant gentleman in El Corte Inglés he wasn’t able to make very much of my almost impossibly vagu...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Another week to get through!

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With the petty spitefulness for which he has become famous, god has ordained that today in Barcelona should be a day of glorious sunshine. H...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

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I seem to recall, in the dim and certainly distant past, my mother having a washing machine which looked something like a cauldron with a to...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Dull weather days!

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Perhaps it is just me, but a neighbour using high volume baby talk to her dog early in the early morning may justify being called by the nou...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Where is the sun?

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Grim overcast days continue and I do not have lively expectations that the weekend is going to be any better. We had a tantalizing glimpse o...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

How to spoil a day

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Yesterday I watched with grumpy despair as the Head of the ESO section of the school, or at least the Head of Doing the Substitutions List s...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Time for contemplation!

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One of the many advantages of living some distance away from your place of work is that it gives one the spaciousness each morning to study ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Situation - fluid!

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I pride myself that my digestion is cast iron, copper bottomed and other metallic metaphors redolent of strength and vigour; it was theref...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Everything changes!

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I fail to see how such a poor day as today follows from such a glorious day as yesterday. There is almost a Puritan sense of equilibrium abo...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

Summer space!

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I count today as the first day of the summer. Not because of the weather which was glorious, with a sky so blue that you begin to imagine wi...