Sunday, December 12, 2010

A true Sunday

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A day with marking! Admittedly there was plenty of displacement activity up to and including hoovering! But, nevertheless, marking was don...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Comestibles

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I may have been wearing a jumper and a vest but I did have lunch on the outside balcony of our local restaurant on the beach. There was a br...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Seems is what is real!

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We have all agreed that only teaching Thursday and Friday this week has not meant that the teaching week has seemed dramatically shorter. Th...
Thursday, December 09, 2010

What next!

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The trauma of going back to work after the too short/too long holiday of three days added to the weekend was made even worse by the fact tha...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

The fun way to misery!

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At the last second I switched my choice of book from the Dawkins’ hit on evolution and chose “Whoops – Why everyone owes everyone and no one...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

perchance to read . . .

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It is a measure of how far I have changed (in certain respects) that, as I was having lunch I noticed a face I recognized on a television sc...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Aint it great to be blooming well dead

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For any holiday to be worthy of that sacred appellation there has to be a period when I lay out in the sun. Today this essential part of...
Sunday, December 05, 2010

A day to savour!

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There is something about a crisp, bright Sunday morning when one is sitting next to the radiator with a strong cup of tea which inspires the...
Saturday, December 04, 2010

Culture Makes You Better

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Sometimes the well known, at least to me, syndrome of teaching in front of a class having a sort of rejuvenating and disease defying effect ...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

Abroad thoughs from home!

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The clearest thing to emerge from my recent visit to my native land is that I have obviously developed some sort of allergy to the place. ...
Friday, November 26, 2010

The day before

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The blissful silence of a class doing an examination – or at least as near to silence as a group of Spanish pupils get! They ask the most am...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The dry decision

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Another bright and sunny day. I know that I shouldn’t dwell on such things, but I still haven’t lost my simple delight in a rainless seq...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Am I missing someting?

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I am thinking of writing a poem about my school and I shall entitle it “Does it have a mark?” This is because the status of learning in our ...
Monday, November 22, 2010

As if a Monday as not enough

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It takes a certain sort of individualistic flair to fall “up” the stairs, but I managed to go it yesterday and in the process Split the nail...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Time passes again and again

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Already the morning has gone and I have done nothing about getting my stuff together for the journey to Britain. Not only the physical imped...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Too much already

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The absence of Thursday and Friday are explained by the horror of having the school day extended in each instance. Thursday was the occasion...