Raining that is, it’s been totally hot and dry for the last billion weeks, but as soon as we want to go camping in Britain it rains. I’ve paid a boy to water my garden plants – just to make doubly sure it rains throughout.
Have a good few weeks will report back when I’m back!
In the photograph you can see an Aussie Dictionary, a fridge magnet, a packet of mango rock sweets and a Sydney postcard.
As a resulf of these you may well find my entries scattered with Aussie lingo, me rather sweeter than normal as well as strangely magnetic… er and calling myself Sydney?
It was a real treat [...]
As Yay realised my WISE gift arrived. I was hoping to do the proper thing and put a photo up but that will have to wait til tomorrow. In the mean time thank you for my brilliant WISE gift Yay. I will wait til I put the photo up to tell you what I got.
And, [...]
It’s been a right stinker today.
Tomorrow’s my barbie so I’ll have a tinnie then. Reckon!
Hoo roo.
Yesterday I confiscated a drink and sweets from two boys in my form as they were buying them well into lesson time. This morning I refrained from confiscating another packet of maltesers from Arthur as it was, strictly speaking before school, but I did suggest he should eat less E numbers and do everyone a [...]
It’s a sobering thing, the joy of yesterday and the horror of today. Just this morning, before I knew about the blasts I was showing a short video clip of a policewoman talking about an IRA bomb she had been in, the context was forgiveness, the kids really had few memories of this sort of [...]
Please can you reserve me some tickets so I can watch the following events…
- diving
- swimming
- trampolining
- athletics
Thank you muchly,
Maddie
Today I taught what was in theory the same lesson 3 times (3 year 9 groups) – just in case people are jealous I did also teach a couple of year 7 lessons but that is rather irrelevant to what I am thinking.
I was at the same point in the topic we are looking at [...]
I have a beautiful set of 6 whiteboard pens in a nice plastic case. I have a small whiteboard (approx 40cm by 70cm)* currently the whiteboard is empty. It has previously had lists of treats people might want, but apart from the cat no one seemed greedy enough to use it as a place of [...]