Monday Blues

Oh how I hate Mondays...... isn't that a song by the Boon Town rats???? I am really showing my age with this cultural reference! However, the words are so true! It's the thought of the entire week stretching out, it feels like I have a mountain to climb! Roll on the Christmas holidays!!

Today I taught a full day, had bus duty and a meeting at the end of it and tonight I have to do my reports. Lovely!! Mind you, my students do make me laugh. Sometimes!!

On the way across from the sixth form block to main school I almost lost my tights! I could feel the waist rolling down over my big fat tummy and as it was rolling I could feel everything else going with it!! I then got to the main school and tried to subtely pull them back up. I am now sitting on the sofa and all I can smell are my very stinky feet. I would so like a nice crisp frost and a robin! I am weraing winter clothes (with tights) and its too warm!

May be my tights will behave themselves tomorrow! Until then.......... keep dancing! x

I am in Narnia!

Today I feel as if I am in Narnia! I woke up after a massive lie in which I badly needed after a huge 17 hour day on Thursday! It was Open Evening. I took Annie to Wicken where they had the most wonderful Christmas decortaion room. I felt as if I had walked into a scene from Narnia. Just beautiful. Lots of green foliage, sparkley lights with little crystals and old fashioned tree decorations. I spent far too much but it was all too tempting. I really do feel as if I have been born in the wrong era, I love all things old and vintage.

The weekend is slipping away too quickly........... Wish I could freeze time!
Until tomorrow then xxxx

Hurrah, I can go to bed!

I've reached the end of my working day. It's 11.10pm and I've just marked my final book. Hurrah! I've squeezed in a shower and had a bowl of cereal for tea. I am craving cake and all things sweet. It's a stupid time to eat, so close to bed time but....... No wonder I am a big fat lump!

Tomorrow is a busy day, a lunchtime philosophy group and an open evening to look forward to. Not!! I am suppose to remind students of our lunchtime club via a tannoy. What a completely horrific thought, my little voice, booming out across the sixth form. One of my students has written me a rap to get my message across. Bless!! Will definitely NOT be doing that. Theres only so much humiliation a girl can take in one day!

Anyhow, my day is done. Hurrah, I can go to bed!
Night, night xx

A Horrid Curve Ball

We've been thrown a curve ball! Life is unfair, lets face it. It sometimes feels as if the horrible people flourish and the ones that simply try to be kind and compassionate souls just get trampled over. As you are probably guessing life has been somewhat difficult of late. Not as difficult as it is for so many but nevertheless its been stressful and tough going.

We tell our children to ignore the bullies for what goes around comes around, it will all work out in the end. The sad truth is though, this usually isnt the case! I had a wonderful discussion today with my Year 11 class. We were discussing the omniscient nature of God (if there is one!). We were grappeling with the idea that if God is all knowing then he knows what will happen before it does. If this is the case how can we have free will and does this mean that a bad person is destined to be bad since God knows in advance what that person's future will be? This somehow feels unfair! Anyway we began relating this to all sorts of situations such as a terminally ill person wanting active euthanasia. This goes against the sanctity of life and yet God knows in advance that you will choose euthanasia and so challenge  religious authority! We discussed all the possible solutions to the idea of freewill versus determinism. Many of them pretty unsatisfactory!!

So, with no plausable answers as to why we sometimes get thrown a curve ball, we must simply carry on with our heads held high and a determined glint in our eye. My days are strange, I can go from discussing complex philosophical and ethical conundrums to fiddling about with emails or a paper border that refuses to stay stapled to a display! You just never know the way your day will pan out, much like life I suppose, so , let me leave you with these little words of wisdom, when in doubt......... Keep calm and carry on!!

Until tomorrow then xxx

Another day, another dollar....

Had quite a reasonable day today. Incredibly busy but productive. Sexual ethics with Year 13... this can always be a bit of a testing topic as i am sure you can imagine! Followed by the cheerful topic of euthanasia with year 12. Inbetween I've beautified my room in preparation for Open Day. Completely missed bus duty! At the beginning of the day i felt a little bit like a mobile phone struggeling on a 50% charge. However I picked up as the day went on. Unfortunately I have overdone the fruit consumption and my stomache is making wierd noises! I decided to mark a set of stinky books before heading home and was so bored that I sat and stuffed myself with multiple apples and satsumas. I also ate a box of M & S sugar free fruit drops. I think these might also be laxitives!!! Tonight I still have more marking to do!! (also on euthanasia.)I am going to have to mark them otherwise I will have to either lie or invent some excuse for not marking them. It's a bit like students making up excuses for not doing their homework, only this time its the teacher making excuses!!

Today  am wearing a White Stuff pinafore dress which on the model looked quite loose and flowy. Sadly it looks rather tight fitting and a couple of sizes too small on me. Its just that diets are sooooo boring! I know I should, I know i will feel better but when push comes to shove I just miss all the nice stuff too much!

Another day done and a dollar earnt. Until tomorrow then..........

Panic......I've overslept!!

Oh dear, not a good start to the day..... I've overslept and not just by a bit but massively!! I  woke up at 11am with a headache and not due to a hangover! I some how feel cheated when I wake up with a headache when I haven't had alcohol the night before. The alcohol induced headache is the payoff for some amazing night but when you just wake with a bad head it just seems soooooo unfair!!

I have slept away a significant amount of the day which means I have less time to do food shopping, school work and general chores. Must clean out the bunnies today which my lovely daughter promised that she would do if she were allowed to have bunnies!! Of course this never happened and four years later.......... Hate cleaning out bunnies!!

We are also in the process of decluttering the house AGAIN!! We have a skip on the drive for this very purpose, How embarrassing, we have so much junk that we save money by hiring a skip rather than having to make trillion of trips to the local dump!! I will have to arrange all of my rubbish in the skip so that all the more luxury type of junk is at the top of the skip in view and all the other really stinky, embarrassing stuff is hidden and out of sight!!

How sad am I????

A day in the Life of..........

I've always wondered about "blogging" so I thought I would dip my toe in the water! By day I am a teacher and by night (whenever I have time!) I love to produce art. I am using the term "art" very losely!

 Just as I have always wondered about blogging I have also wondered about false eyelashes, so today I went and tried a pair out! Total and complete disaster....... I looked like a clown! I thanked the assistant for gluing them on and then once out of sight I unceremoneously pulled them off!! Never again!! they also felt heavy! Wierd or what?! To cheer myself up I decided that I should treat myself to a wooly jumper, so I did! Not as glamourous as false eyelashes but infinitely more comfortable!
Tomorrow is Sunday. Really hate Sunday's. It's a day I associate with doing chores. I mourn it's passing  as each hour goes by, I count down to Monday and work. Horrid, horrid, horrid! At least Downton Abby is on! If i could fall into the telly and become an actual character in Downton  would probably want to be the grandmother. She's done the marriage and children thing, she's treated like royalty, she's never had to work and her family walk on eggshells around her! I don't think anyone's walked on eggshells around me! Imagine.......! I also like the idea of a boned corset holding back all the flab like a great big dam!

Some "art" directly from my heart!

Until tomorrow then xxxx