A week ago, during Red Nose Day, students (and some staff) did a Zumba thing to raise money and had the local paper in to take photos. We were supposed to have student photographers about but none appeared so I scuttled down the back stairs and took a few shots. Now these have turned up in the paper I can show you mine.
Got an email from reception at work today saying, 'A parcel arrived for you, we think it's a mouse.". I replied, 'I hope it's not squeaking and running around.'
When I checked my post tray this evening I found this in the box :-)
Two of the days on the trip to The Lakes with college ended up with me in Grasmere eating their famous gingerbread (very good indeed) and hiding from the rain. When it did stop I took some photos. These are of the churchyard and the Wordsworths' graves.
When I went downstairs to take photos he was telling an amusing tale about trying to arrest Mugabe while Christmas shopping at Harrods.
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I seem to be the on-call photographer at work at the moment. Last Wednesday I was not only involved with the usual local history group I help out with, but I was also called in to photograph Drama who are rehearsing Hamlet and Dance who have their exam in a couple of weeks.
Sometimes the things you do outside work also get involved with things you do inside work. That seems to be happening a lot in this job I do as a librarian these days. As people know, I'm helping out with Media Studies who are doing Sherlock as their examined unit focus text. Was on a reccie last week for a trip I am arranging for them (nine page
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I have been a busy body again and last Weds had to take a group of Biology students (as ever at extremely sort notice) to London for a conference. The good news was that while they were being lectured on the lungs and gaseous exchange and transport (hehe), I got to escape. I was actually going to Chinatown to scope out a restaurant for us to eat at
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