It was S1 Parent’s evening last night and we seemed to zoom round, magically finding empty chairs and very few queues, but it still took 2 hours. This was despite spending very little time at any desk - just long enough to hear what an angelic specimen GP2 is and how they would all love [...]
Archive for April, 2007
We watched the end of a TimeTeam programme last night about North Sea landscapes and climate change and wished we’d seen the whole thing, even if Sam Wollaston didn’t think much of it. GP2 stomped off to bed in a huff because it was too late for him to stay up and see the end [...]
Countdown to the exams is most definitely on. They all kick off next Tuesday with English. The good news is that the 3rd years aren’t being sent home on a month’s study leave. The bad news is that I’m still saying “you can do that after you’ve done some work”. I did ask GP1 yesterday [...]
Perhaps this is a Friday afternoon set of directions. Or maybe just someone at GoogleMaps wants to know if anyone ever follows their directions.
This will take as long as you’ve got:-
go to www.google.com
click on “maps,” above the search bar…
click on “get directions”
type ” New York” in the first box (the “from” box)
type ” Paris” in the second [...]
I developed a whole new level of respect for people, all sorts of people, at the weekend. Saturday night I was too tired to talk but did somehow manage to drive back from Glasgow without causing a major motorway incident. However I did have a little bundle of metalwork to clutch in my hand to [...]
Two quotes down, 3 big tenders to go. I’m hoping not to be away too much in May when the exams are on, and have just quoted for some work designed to keep me at my microscope for several weeks, but this is the start of the main field season and the best weather. My [...]
School’s back, the house is quiet and it’s almost the weekend already. I’m off to Glasgow on Friday with a bunch of similarly mad people for the Scottish Open Masters swimming. Why, I ask myself, as I sit here stuffed up with a cold and a sore wrist to boot, did I think it might [...]
In my real world, my desk is groaning under a pile of tenders I need to deal with. The immediate question is - how to prioritise them? There’s always a lot of second guessing goes into putting tenders together, looking for this year’s salary. Who else is bidding (my husband’s company for one!)? What do [...]
At least it is in our house, as you might deduce from this picture. How many nuclear power stations could we shut down if everyone gave up ironing? I’d rather go out in the garden - here’s the Forsythia in bloom this year. Evidence from the last couple of years suggested it had given up the [...]
I spent a large chunk of yesterday and most of this morning trying to install a new subscription to my McAfee antivirus package. I eventually tracked it down, via various help forums and message boards, to a conflict with IE7 and the need to download some extra stuff from Microsoft. I wanted to shout “why didn’t [...]
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