Friday, September 10, 2010

Life in the early lane!

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THURSDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER The second time this week that I have risen at 6 am and it is not the last as Friday too is an early start. I am ...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

. . . and early to rise - is a bloody mistake!

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In this worst of all possible worlds I got up at 6 am to make it to school for an 8.15 am start and discovered that this one was of the two ...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Don't take things for granted

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Today was remarkable. Leaving at the end of work it only took me five minutes to go the few hundred yards to the slip road to the motorw...
Monday, September 06, 2010

Fear so near you can almost touch it!

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I had my swim in darkness this morning and felt fully awake and tinglingly refreshed by the time it had ended. I got to school to be met...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

In the west the sun is sinking!

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I was reduced to swimming widths today at the shallow end because that was where the sun was. Then I realized just how whimpish such activi...
Saturday, September 04, 2010

Stereotypes and Rites of Passage

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Just because one has sense it does not mean that one is sensible. I am looking to replace my car as it is now three years old and will b...
Friday, September 03, 2010

Schools! Don't ya just love 'em!

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How often have management (and teachers) in school been seduced by the sheer vulgarity of the blandishments that high technology seems to ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Still the waters flow

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A sullen day with the sun firmly locked behind impenetrable cloud – but still I threw myself into the icy waters of our unrelenting pool and...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

The shadow Falls!

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I went for swim first thing in the morning just after 7.00 am, long before I went to school for the start of the new year. I felt that such...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Time has run out!

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The water in the pool this morning was cool. You might call it refreshing or, as I staggered out still sleepy eyed and threw myself in th...
Monday, August 30, 2010

But two months, nay, not so much, not two

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As if to share my growing grief the pine needles seemed to have given up hope and have dropped silently onto the surface of the pool last ni...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

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Sundays are always bad days for teachers, unless of course they occur in holidays. There is a sort of flatness about a Sunday, even after th...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

The Big Read

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It is proving more and more difficult to emerge from a world in which all ladies seem to have small pearl handled guns in their reticules a...
Friday, August 27, 2010

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A swimming pool with children in it is like being locked in a bathroom with an obtrusive fly: irritating. Let us get a few ground rules ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Seek and ye shall find - sometimes!

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Tidying up does have its advantages. I am not interested in the obvious ones like keeping the Black Death and other interesting diseases ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Drink takes away the pain

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There is a dying fall to each arm stroke as I wend my way up and down the pool. How many more lengths until the fateful entry of September ...