Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Full days

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Barça are one goal down in the pouring rain in Chelsea.  I do not have a good feeling about this game, but there is most of the second hal...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Still lots to learn

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All set with two boxes of chocolates and a packet of biscuits as inter-active visual and gastronomic aids I was rather looking forward to ...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Another day

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To celebrate only 42 working days with the kids left in this academic year our Head of Department was immediately absent!   Imme...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Taking the sun

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I’ve had my most British, nay, English morning since I arrived in Spain. Getting up with little expectation of fine weather, I was gal...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Who cares, it's Friday!

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Cold, damp, grey – not the sort of weather conditions to inspire me with joi de vivre at some ungodly hour of the morning!   And...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

What if this had been a full week!

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I have been giving some thought to the position of my sacked colleague and am totally frustrated by the real lack of help that I can giv...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Opera That Never Was

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Yesterday in a suspiciously easy approach to Barcelona where there were no real holdups I arrived one and a half hours early for the o...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Last Day

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It has come round in half the time that it would have taken in Britain: the last day of the woefully short Easter Holiday.  ...