The school had to do a guard of honour for Mr C's brother today, which wasn't much fun. Not because of the obvious sadness of it all, but also because we had to stand in the freezing cold for two hours while waiting for the coffin to be brought from the village where the funeral was to the graveyard in our town. The other seconday school had turned ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was at home alone and it was pouring rain all day, so I settled down to watch Return of the King. I burst into tears three times while watching it, which I've never done before. When it was over I wandered around upstairs feeling dismayed and fannish ( Read more... )

Sean and I finished watching Fellowship of the Ring yesterday. It's as original and exciting as it felt to me when I was twelve. I never thought I could feel so fannish about it again ( Read more... )

We finally got our school hoodies - they're all way too big - only to be told that we're not allowed to wear them in class! What gives? We ASKED for the hoodies in the first place because it can be cold in the classrooms. But this morning Mr C came around to all the classes and shouted at us to get them off, so that's that, although Ms T told us ( Read more... )

My mother and I took off to the new Athlone shopping centre this morning and wandered around there for a few hours. I was somewhat unimpressed, although I did buy a new blue poloneck. I have got to stop buying those things ( Read more... )