I think my brain is still in shock, never mind my body. This is my first day on my own and I am motivated to do… nothing! Children at school, husband in Ireland for the day, sister back in Manchester, Grandma arriving tonight. I have a work mountain, a laundry mountain (it has finally stopped [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Life Jim, but not as we know it…
Published May 31st, 2007 in Family, Working at home and broken ankle. 9 CommentsI went on a skive masquerading as my own CPD last Tuesday - diving at St Abbs, ostensibly to break my duck and get in the water for the first time this year. In fact, to meet Jane who was over from Belfast for a few days. It was a lovely day and we had [...]
Just back from field work in Cardigan Bay. I’ll write something later but in the meantime, here’s one for Tess…
… who I’m sure will tell you what it is! Although I see she’s busy in London so I might have to leave you all to guess.
The news from Ireland this week and Fearghal’s and Don’s blog have all conspired to take me back to the early 80s (1980s, that is; nothing to do with my age, despite my children’s opinions) when I went to work at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. I have many connections with Belfast as it’s my mother’s [...]
Another of those pleasant, restful weekends with lots of time in the garden? I wish! Instead we spent Saturday morning cheering our youngest round the Meadows on the Junior Great Edinburgh Run and I spent Sunday morning pounding (or should that be plodding?) the streets of Edinburgh on the grown up version. My run was [...]
As I write, GP1 should be well into his PE Standard Grade exam. And I’ve just read a post on Ewan’s blog about the school curriculum. I have one son (GP2, 12) choosing subjects for Standard Grade, another (GP1, 14) choosing subjects for Higher.
So?
I want… the children to study a broad curriculum that they [...]
I picked up NeoWorx courtesy of Ollie and have sort of managed to install it in the sidebar. The Map seems to be working but I also tried to put a counter on and flags and they seem less successful. I shalll continue fiddling with it and see what happens. It’s reassuring to have some sort of [...]
Over lunch yesterday I happened to read this piece in the Guardian about study leave. It pretty much encapsulated my feelings about my 14yr old son staying home for “revision”. I did suggest, rather tentatively I must admit, to one of the teachers a while back that some form of mentoring by one of the [...]
All at sea
Published May 1st, 2007 in Boys, Microscope, School, Standard Grades, Surveys and Working at home. 1 CommentIt seems that most of the Irish Sea - well, the seabed - has just arrived in my back yard, as a result of one of the quotes I did last week. If I had my camera, which I mislaid at Dunbar last week, I would show you what it looks like and why I [...]
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