Just wanted to wish everyone a very merry christmas and a happy new year from little old wootton. I hope 2005 is a good year for you all, and a healthy one too. Take care, god bless, and i hope santa brings you all the presents you wish for ( Read more... )

Yesterday I have named 'the day of the dinner', as paul proceeded to make me a christmas dinner, which included such gruesome tasks as stuffing a real-live turkey. Not a live one you understand, but one that was once a real-live turkey. I don't agree with stuffing live ones you see. Bit mean and all. It was quite funny to watch all this going on, ( Read more... )

I'm in the staff computer room at the moment having a free period, so thought i'd update. Gemma visited us last night and was the first official overnight guest we have had stay with us. We got away without having to make her lie under the table (just about) my using the 4 sofa cushions as a bed, with a sleeping bag to lay on top of these, and then ( Read more... )

I have (here read 'paul has') finally managed to upload some of my photo's from canada and alaska onto my new flickr account. Unfortunately, they are not all there because i'm only allowed so much space every month, but there are 30 for your viewing. They are not in order necessarily, but canada ones generally come after the alaska ones. In my view ( Read more... )

Sooooooo bored!! I'm currently spending all my 'spare' time (ie. unstructured time) doing a stupid essay for 'core studies' on setting and it is proving to be soooooo dull. I am almost losing the will to live with it, especially as i still have three key paragraphs to write and have found that i am already over 1,000 words over the word limit. ( Read more... )

Today is Paul and my year anniversary, so we've spent a lovely day together relaxing and 'being a couple'. I have been given a gorgeous white gold ring, and a card proclaiming that the last year has been his happiest he's ever had and that he loves me with all his heart. How sweet. I had to pop out briefly this morning to take a defibrillation ( Read more... )

Update on my day: This has turned into a very BAD day. Why you may ask? Well let me ask you something: if you rudely and incompetently drove your car into someone else's, and left a HUGE great patch of paintwork-less bodywork on their car, and hundreds of pounds worth of damage, would you just drive off and be a complete craphead, or would you put ( Read more... )

Hi. Life is going well, just thought i'd do a quick 'updatey' thing. I'm in my 6th week of my course and i think i'm doing fine. I've been teaching whole periods and covering some sixth-form lessons on my own whilst the teacher is away on a cool battlefields trip which polly and i were hoping we'd be invited to go on, but we weren't. At upper ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to say that i haven't abandoned writing in here, it has just been a rather manic week at school. That's going to sounds weird,like i've gone back to school and been demoted isn't it? Ah well, can't be helped. I'm now in my fourth week of my teacher-training year and it's going well. I'm in a lovely school (a grammar school no less ( Read more... )

Hello! Last week i spent one exhausting, but thoroughly enjoyable week in my local primary school working with littluns. They are sooo much nicer than teenagers it's almost unbelievable that in just 6 or so years they'll be turning into the horrible creatures that are the teenage race. I wasn't sworn at once, and the worst that happened was a ( Read more... )