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Enlightenment.
There is a TA at our school who, while she’s been pleasant, has never really accepted me. I catch her looking at me and often she speaks down to me, mildly patronising. I just shrug it off becaus...
Nojomo 2014. 1.
It’s after midnight on Hallowe’en so beginneth the witching hour and November. It’s the start of nojomo and so nojomo it shall be. I had considered nanowrimo but I honestly have no clue when I’d ...
The First Sleepover.
Tally has been invited to sleepovers in the past but we’ve always turned them down because of the night terrors. of course she doesn’t know about the night terrors, we’ve never told her. So the l...
Points of info!
Tally’s race. It didn’t happen but not because of her. In the west side of our town there is a large(ish) country park, next to it is a school. They almost share a name. The difference is that t...
One more day
Half term break starts on Thursday. I’m virtually counting the minutes! Various stuff to tell.... must take notes but first, must sleep!!!
"You're it!"
The school I work at finishes at 1.30 on Fridays. That isn’t to say the staff can go home, although the head often disappears pretty early… Our Fridays are divided pretty evenly, a third of them...
Ten books.
I was tagged on Facebook to write about the ten most influential books that I have read and, as I put so much effort into it, I thought I’d add it of on to here… Fried Green Tomatoes (Fannie Flag...
Heeeeeeellllllooooooooooo!!
So proud of my big girl, she is taking part in a cross country tournament tomorrow, running for her school in a one mile race. It’s taken some angst to get to this point, some gentle talking and ...
Reality check - the silent motorbike version.
WHERE: lying in bed, rich is watching motor gp on his phone with his headphones on. It’s very relaxing to watch the bikes with no noise. WEARING: a duvet… FITNESS UPDATE: my four miles of cyclin...
My first thingy meeting.
Sorry, no words. Usually badly behaved kids were on one today, twice as bad. Oh I know what it was called, performance review. So yeah, my first performance review today and it would seem that I’...
De-childminding
The first thing I did was removed the stair gates which have been attached for over seven years! I actually felt mild vertigo for a few days whenever I came downstairs! I had two large piece...
Arrested development.
I made an interesting discovery this week… I’ve been taking small groups this week, as part of literacy, to learn about job descriptions and how to write them. In every group we discussed that pe...
The Talk.
The Girls have long known of periods, babies, eggs and that our bodies are beautifully designed for our vaginas to grow in order to allow the baby out. They even know that daddy’s have sperm whic...
Advice needed.
Teachers and parents. Tally has been asked to run in a cross country tournament for her school. This sounds like fabulous news unless you know my daughter. She’s gone into foetal mode. She can’t ...
Reality check - the cotton wool head version.
WHERE: lying flat on my back, on my bed. Head is propped up at an angle that almost causes an inability to breathe, but not uncomfortably so. Next to me is Rich who is giggling at something he’s ...
I'm a pacifist but...
I have an urge to punch Nigel Farage whenever I see or hear him, even reading his name elicits this reaction in me. And swearing, he makes swearing words spurt from my brain like lava from a vol...
Reality check - the ice 'cream' version.
WHERE: on my sofa, watching NCIS, one of my guilty favourites. It’s 20:10 and it’s Friday night. I am not eating ice cream but you wouldn’t believe it if you saw me! I froze some chopped bananas,...
Less pain.
Since I was awake for a lot of the previous night and the day was so hard, I crashed out last night! I read the girls’ bedtime stories on my bed before rich put then to bed and I read some of my ...
pain
I woke in the night with the most obscene pain which could possibly be ovulation pain. I do get ovulation pain sometimes but nothing like this! I could hardly move, it felt like my ovaries were ...
A pleasant Sunday stroll.
How in the heck did my front camera get switched on? Blackberries were a plenty! There’s a camera? Better pose! Paddling at the source of the Thames. I want to discover the fairy tale u...
interesting snippets of information.
Things said to me today regarding the class I have, by different people. “None of the regular TA’s wanted to take on your class.” And “I asked for this year group because I love a challenge.” Ha ...
Day Three...
Day three is the beginning of the doggy paddle, I no longer feel as though I can’t quite reach the surface. When I was asked to get things from the stock cupboard I knew where they were and I wa...
Headache.
To much information given in too short a space of time. Lots of book labeling, sticky back plasticking… that was about it. The kids start tomorrow, hopefully I’ll feel more at home with kids arou...
the first day.
Tomorrow is the first day of the next stage of my life. And that’s all.
Book Description
I’m no longer a childminder, I’m a TA. Autumn is close and I think it’s time for my next book.
