Thursday, May 19, 2011

Day after bloody day!

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Each extra day in this impossibly long year takes a conscious effort to get through: twelve more days of the month to go and then the down...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Nice things!

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I have to admit that the pool was somewhat cooler than yesterday, the sun having disappeared fitfully as soon as I took to the road to come ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Reading is best!

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A second dip in the pool. There was still sunshine covering more than half the pool when I got back home and it was hardly an effort to di...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Here we go again

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A new week and a meeting after school. I had thought that SMART targets was something I had left behind in the UK but no, phoenix-like the...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Justice!

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In the post-Eurovision 2011 world we need to be a little tighter on our definitions and a little stricter concerning out-moded views on dem...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

A normal Saturday

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  One has to count one’s blessings: we had sun this morning and into the afternoon and we had been promised rain.  I even had time t...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Taxing times!

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THURSDAY 12th  MAY 2011 Doing my tax has taken two of us all our free periods today.  My colleague Frank has a horror story to tell of an...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

School grumpiness - as always!

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Catalan women speak on the in-breath. I write this as my nerves are stretched to twanging point by the continuous parallel “conversation...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

It's a hard life!

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I don’t know why I should feel bitter but I do.  In spite of my experience and my expectations I do. I probably shouldn’t have crowed abou...

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I don’t know why I should feel bitter but I do.  In spite of my experience and my expectations I do. I probably shouldn’t have crowed ab...
Monday, May 09, 2011

Culture is complex

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There comes a time in most peoples’ lives when they realize that all the effort they put into their education is about to pay off.  A time ...
Sunday, May 08, 2011

Weekend Escape

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SATURDAY 7th  MAY 2011 Real Madrid is trouncing Sevilla to the accompaniment in Catalonia of lashing rain, thunder and lightning.  Barça w...