Work is so up and down. I still feel supremely ineffective most days. There is rarely a win at the moment. I hope and pray daily that I'm not stuffing them up permanently. But still a Reading Assessment on He-Who-Is-Lovely-But-Really-Behind shows that he has started to using sounding out as a strategy. He never used to at the beginning of the year ( Read more... )

So. Why is SIYE down? This irritates me. I was going to post fic ( Read more... )

I am feeling like a hideously ineffective teacher. People tell me I'm not but I can't help thinking they are just being nice because they are stuck with me anyway and don't need my moody ass around the place in addition to my ineffectivity ( Read more... )

Some of you may have read a story I started posting oh ... sometime last year I think it was. I think I finally broke through the writer's block and started posting it on SIYE - partly as an encouragement to myself to finish it. (Now I have to hope I can finish the blasted thing!) Anyway in Chapter 2 Harry is a perpetually unlucky in love bachelor ( Read more... )

So, my kid had her appendix out on the weekend which has put my mid-year report writing waaaaaaaaaaaay back ( Read more... )

( The Hallway Saga )

( Here's why ... )

... until we got to the part where I confiscated a pocket knife on the oval.

( Knife Story )

It just makes me so busy.

And Tired.

And why did the font in this box get smaller?

I don't have the energy to post all my teachery thoughts. I thought I did but I don't. So you shall have to be content with simply knowing i do still exist.

We've been back for a while but I just haven't written. It seemed like such a big job and I didn't ahve the energy and I've been very busy and now it's Saturday and I still haven't made my way through all the washing. So I don't know if anyone read my last entry about the complete and utter cock-up that was the booking of the Easter holiday but ( Read more... )