Category Archives: Teaching

15 Sleeps Until Christmas

Okay, kids. This is another post that I’ve started to write but, unlike the countless others, I’m going to post this. Everything has been good and fine here. I think I have about everything I need for Christmas Day. (There’s … Continue reading

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Annoying career choices

Supply Teaching I do not understand how the Department of Education works here. I really don’t. Supply teachers are paid all sorts of different amounts, then when they offer you a job for the day, they offer it to you … Continue reading

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#AugustBreak2013 Day 28

You know, ladies, those emotional, hormonal days when you feel like you’re crazy? Those days when you think you want to either cry, or sit in a dark room and each 100 Kit Kat bars, or both? Yeah, that was … Continue reading

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#AugustBreak2013 Day 21

This morning Steve was coughing a lot, as if he wasn’t completely over the cold that had kept him home one day last week. He decided to stay and work at home today, poor thing. I had an appointment in … Continue reading

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A Case of the Mondays for 29 Jul 2013

July had been hot, as we all know. I think we’ve gone through a record number of popsicles (lollies, as we say in England) and (cloudy, not the clear fizzy stuff that looks like Sprite) lemonade. The rain has been … Continue reading

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