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Jack’s Mum (my podcast)- Episode 12: Getting a toddler ready for Christmas
- Episode 11: After Covid we're getting on with things
- Episode 10: Covid Is Still Ruining My Plans after Freedom Day
- Episode 9: How Covid Can Still Ruin Your Plans
- Episode 8: Swimming, nursery, sickness, and Covid testing
- Episode 7: Taking a Toddler Out and About
- Episode 6: Self-Care
- Episode 5: Nursery
- Episode 4: Eating
- Episode 3: Sleep
- Medium
- Reflections on my first year as an Avon Representative
- I’m obsessed with Build-A-Bear and I need help
- Making plans after a couple of uncertain years
- One of many posts about The Beastie Boys
- Do I Really Have a Book Inside of Me?
- On losing our last Golden Girl
- Don’t Look Up – a dark comedy with so much more
- How to start 2022 with writing goals
- 2021 Year in Review
- Vinted App Pros (and lots of) Cons
Category Archives: School
What’s Happening this Wednesday
Teaching – The teaching assistant gig has been going fine. We’re in our last term of the year and the regular teacher has taken over the class again. We have two student teachers in the class too so there’s lots … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Books, Gaming, Movies, Music, School, Teaching, Television, Travel, Writing
Tagged Breaking Bad, Chester Zoo, Ender's Game, Fargo, Godzilla, Kasabian, Teaching Assistant
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Remember the semicolons!
If you want to be humiliated, and told you’re not as good at the one thing you know you’re good at, then come to England and take one of their assessment tests. You’ll feel lower than dirt by the time … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Employment, School, Teaching, Writing
Tagged England, English teaching, exams, Teaching Assistant, tests
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Saturday Catch Up
It’s been beautiful in the North East lately. Today is a sunny and inviting day, so we’re planning on hitting the city and investigating The Late Shows. We went the year before last and it was lots of fun. After … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Books, Employment, School, Teaching, Writing
Tagged Camp NaNoWriMo, critique partner, Teaching Assistant
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Teaching and books are the stuff I’m made of
Tuesday morning, and I woke up early, as usual, but this time it was 5:30 instead of 5, and I got out of bed at 6. (I woke up once at 4:30 as well.) I know it’s the lack of … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Books, Employment, Gaming, Library, School, Teaching, Television, Writing
Tagged English teaching, Teaching Assistant, Tough Young Teachers
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Sleep and college admissions
I just don’t sleep anymore. I wake up at least four times a night and am wide awake at 7:00AM. Steve had to work overtime last week and we had a new, weird schedule that was just taking a toll … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Employment, School, Teaching
Tagged college, Teaching Assistant
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The Tales of Missus P. 