I loved my school placement today - and almost know all the children's names in the class I'm working in now. I was so worried I'd never know who they all were but it has happened more easily than I was expecting. Phew! Also I decided to order myself a school dinner today, seeing as I didn't have enough food in the house to make my usual pasta ( Read more... )

It's been a nice day. Beautiful weather, clear and bright. On the way home from the school run I stopped in at Mum and Dad's, because they had a friend staying overnight due to a funeral today. R was our Methodist minister in our home town back in Derbyshire from when I was 16 until just after I got married. Tim and I were her last wedding before ( Read more... )

I'm tidying my bureau desk. After yelling comprehensively at the children for the mess they keep leaving around the house, particularly the dining room, and then looking at my desk in the corner of the dining room, piled high with a tremendous amount of detritus, I felt a bit guilty ( Read more... )

It is going to absolutely THROW it down, any minute now, just in time for me to cycle to school for the nursery Stay and Play!

And this time I'm leaving the washing out. It can get wet. So there. :-P

It feels exactly like a Tuesday today. This is going to confuse me greatly.

And it is raining, so all my cycling around today is going to be rather damp!

- Dress Little Three - She dressed herself, hooray!!
- Breakfast pots
- School run
- Snails!!
- Bank statements to MS Money
- Sweep dining room floor ( Read more... )

... usually. As a rule, Mondays are great - a chance to get back into some semblance of order and routine around the house after the chaos that is a weekend. I am always fresh and ready for the start of a new week, and generally look forward to Monday morning (I know, I know, I am quite aware I am strange ( Read more... )

Thank you for all the hugs, thoughts, comments, text (Pim) and lovely card (Dawn ( Read more... )

1. Exam at 1pm. I've thought long and hard about how I'm getting there (parking will be a BIG problem at the school in the middle of the day, plus petrol is too expensive really to be using it when I don't have to; bus is also expensive, and hot, and stops about a mile from the school so I'd still have to walk a fair way), and so I'm going to cycle ( Read more... )