Over the Hill……I’m not even half way up!
Tweet I remember it well, Sunday night listening to the chart show on the radio, Mam combing lumps out of my long red hair looking for nits. Eating the left-overs from Sunday lunch for supper and watching my Dad making his sandwiches for the early shift down the pit. They looked old to me then, [...]
BAH HUMBUG
Tweet Good evening Granny calling, there has been very little time to blog lately. New academic year, new students, frantic staff….whinge, whinge, whinge. I shouldn’t complain about being busy really, I love my job, I like the people I work with and when all is said and done I feel really luck (in the current [...]
You Are What You Eat…Hmmmm
Tweet Today, I am back on the weightwatchers’ plan after my holiday. I’m glad to say that during my holiday (all 4 weeks of it) I only gained 6lbs….RESULT! Eating pancakes for breakfast, drinking far too much delicious beer and wine, barbecues galore and still, only 6lbs! Right, that’s the positive side of things. On [...]
WITH RESPONSIBILITY, GIVE US THE POWER!
Tweet According to The Guardian teachers will get tougher powers to deal with unruly pupils in a “zero tolerance” crackdown on nuisance in the classroom…….. Staff will be given powers to search children for mobile phones, music players, pornography, fireworks and cigarettes, extending existing powers that allow teachers to search pupils for knives. Well, it’s [...]
TODAY’S CHILDREN ARE TOMORROW’S ADULTS
Tweet Imagine this, you wake up one morning and you are suddenly a ‘teenager’. You are no longer 12 but 13! When you went to bed last night, you were treated like a child. You woke up this morning and you are expected to behave like an adult…overnight! Oh, but you must still listen to [...]
IT’S ONLY WORDS?
Tweet So what is it that people hate about swearing, after all, you can say all manner of words, but if you use them in a certain way, they can be described as offensive. These are the type of things I hear people say regarding swearing. It reduces respect people have for you, It shows [...]
WHIFFENPOOF’S WHAT THE…….
Tweet Today I am excited. I feel like a kid in a chocolate factory even though I don’t really like chocolate, you can get my drift. There’s something about Friday that makes me feel, bright, breezy and downright wicked! Who knows why but it’s a great feeling. This week is especially special and if you’ve [...]
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