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... )

... because I'm 'one of the we love h/g people' and I let H/L in. This is beyond ridiculous. Where did these people come from? Luna is a trollop now ( 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... )

It's not a spoiler or a surprise to say that some of this movie is different to the book. I know that no one (unless they've been living at the bottom of the Black Lake) can be expecting something to have every last little bit in there. But for the most part it works, it has The. Best. Bits ( Read more... )

I have just returned from the movie.

I loved it, I adored it, it had everything I needed.

*sigh*

Never cried for Snape before ... that's new ...

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

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