Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Spending Therapy

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My Pupil cancelled this morning as I was getting ready to go to Barcelona for the lesson. This is Not Good and my patience is running a litt...
Monday, July 05, 2010

Nothing changes!

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The heat last night meant that in spite of the predation of mosquitoes the window was left open. This also meant that we were regaled with ...
Saturday, July 03, 2010

Things to do

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The heat last night meant that in spite of the predation of mosquitoes the window was left open. This also meant that we were regaled with ...
Friday, July 02, 2010

Break the mould

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For me a “lie-in” has to be matter of conscious decision. I wake up in time to get up by 7.00 am and holidays do not interfere with this reg...
Thursday, July 01, 2010

Wide horizons!

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The first day of the month; the first day of my holiday “real” and, as I fear most days will start for the foreseeable future, a quick check...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Everyone has his price

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Everyone can be bought. The price may be money, power, sex, promotion or the right sort of chocolate. I have found out that my price is a fa...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The games go on!

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Thank god that Spain has reached the next round of the bloody World Cup. I am all for domestic calm! The penultimate day (or half day) in sc...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Now we see through a glass darkly

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Habitual glasses wearers are always surprised at the comments from non-glasses wearers who ask with pained interest how the glasses wearers ...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

A Match Made in Africa

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I think that I made a wise choice when I decided to lie prone on my sun bed listening to the songs of Tom Lehrer rather than watch the Engli...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Raise the rays!

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Sun bathing ought to be so last century: we know that it is linked to skin cancer and to disreputable medallion wearing criminals in the mor...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Lost Days!

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Tuesday 22nd June 2010 Today was the Day of the Great Disappearance. The sacred day when, in the afternoon, with unseemly haste and unrestr...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Another day to forget!

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For a day I have been transformed into a class teacher and have had to be with a first form. Not in itself too stressful but when you don’t ...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

A day in the sun

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Two young children: yes. Two young children with their young friends: no! I grace fully bowed out of a barbecue with enticing food but over-...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Keep going!

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It is not yet 11 o’clock but already the day is rubbish and to cap it all the sun is shining and I am most unequivocally indoors. The day st...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

What's a day between friends!

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Bone tiredness precluded any intellectual activity after I returned from Barcelona having completed my “lesson” with my “pupil” in an outsid...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Limping along!

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An occasion unprecedented in the annals of educational history in our school: a meeting finished early! Not only that, but the meeting also ...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Experience doesn't always help!

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Although I did manage to stop myself from saying, “I knew it!” and “I told you so!” I could not refrain from a “Every bloody year!” as the c...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Why is the weekend only two days long?

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Well, it didn’t rain today in spite of the rather uninspiring weather forecast which assured us that it would. Broken cloud with intervals o...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

The end of civilization - again!

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The long dark night of the soul has begun. Association Football has taken control of all means of communication and is now dominating the ca...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Glug!

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Who is he so dull of soul that hasn’t felt that at the end of the week that he needs (as Pooh would say) a little something. And who has not...