Last week the new batch of PGCE students started at my school.
They’re ever so bright eyed and bushy tailed and absolutely raring to
get on with their teaching. It’s nice to see them so keen when you’re
feeling like the last thing on earth you want to do is go in and face
your bottom set Year 9 class, it reminds me of how excited I was this
time last ( Read more... )

Next summer I am going to go somewhere and do something exciting. Three weeks into my summer holidays and I'm already bored to death. I want to get out there and have a bit of an adventure, see some of the world! So, I am vowing to you now, that this time in a year I will not be sat in my room in Widnes, having just spent two hours watching a ( Read more... )

Yesterday Sophie (she does have a username, but I don't know how to insert it) and I went to see 'Amadeus' at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. I love Peter Shaffer and saw a production of this play a few years ago in Liverpool, and Sophie had seen and loved the film, and also loved one of the people in the cast. So it was a win-win situation, ( Read more... )

Mneah is the term that Helen and I once decided was the perfect way to describe when you're feeling a bit poo and you don't really know why. I keep finding myself wanting to use said term an awful lot at the moment ( Read more... )

I really want some cake. They keep talking about kids' birthday parties on Loose Women and it's making me want some really cheap birthday cake that's just ridiculously covered in ice cream and makes you bounce off the walls ( Read more... )

No really, they can't! I noticed Helen's facebook status this morning being about how she was looking forward to having lunch with me, and then my mum said I'm one of the most caring people she knows, and then someone from college posted a thing on facebook saying I'm one of the genuinely nicer people that he knows. Ahhhh! It's cheered me up no end ( Read more... )

Last night, I was the best daughter ever and accompanied my mum to the MEN to see David Cassidy, David Essex, Showaddywaddy and The Osmonds. Needless to say, I was not feeling to impressed by this collection of antique's potential before I went but oh my god was I eating my words by the end of the concert! Seriously, menopausal women know how to ( Read more... )

Just a quick post here, I'll update properly later because I really should go round and see Ben. And before I do, I really should get changed and try to stop the redness of my face from taking over. But Scotland was awesome! Possibly one of the best trips yet, I feel pretty sad to be home. I mean I'm the world's worst for post holiday depression ( Read more... )

Yesterday, my parents and I went on another of our theatrical pilgrimages to Stratford. This time round, we were seeing The Merchant of Venice and Coriolanus. Coriolanus was the RSC but The Merchant of Venice was an American company, the founder of which directed an absolutely horrendous film version of Titus Andronicus ( Read more... )

21/03/07 had finally arrived. This was to be the best day of mine and Sophie's young lives. And this turned out to be a frighteningly accurate prediction. We managed to meet up on the train successfully, and we spent the journey miming to Wicked, and listening to Les Mis highlights with one earphone each. I can safely say, we entertained most of ( Read more... )