Today is my last day teaching for the summer. My Year 10 group wrote me some messages in their goodbye card and a couple of goodies. We are picking up our new car tonight. Beyond excited for this. Tomorrow, I will be seeing my lovely PGCE buddies who have played a major role in keeping… Continue reading 5 Reasons to be Happy
Book Review: Snow Child
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey My rating: 4 of 5 stars *mild spoilers* I knew if the simple but magical, textured cover was anything to go by, I would love this book. I was right. Part fairy-tale, part tale of frontier survival, I was enchanted by both the beautiful snow child and the childless… Continue reading Book Review: Snow Child
Bloglovin
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I have finally decided how to read blog now that Google Reader is on its way out. Whilst I like Feedly, I find it frustrating that it doesn't mark blogs as read easily and it also means I can't read blogs in their original sites which Bloglovin does allow you… Continue reading Bloglovin
As You Like It
Yesterday, Rich and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary (which was actually on Friday but Dad's birthday trumped our anniversary so we celebrated that instead on Friday night!). We spent the day in Stratford-upon-Avon and went to see As You Like It at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qpEqv7DAPV4 It blew us away. The music, the… Continue reading As You Like It
Dreaming of June
It feels like my life is on hold until June. The workload for the course is barely manageable and I have already started dreaming of all the things I can do come the summer when I have finished my course: Catch up with friends - if you haven't heard from me for a while, it's… Continue reading Dreaming of June
Easter Decorating
I haven't managed to make anything for Easter other than my fabric bird but I did add a new decoration to my Easter holiday collection. It is just from Sainsburys but I do like the heart/bird combination.
Bird for the Soul
http://instagram.com/p/XGHKsEzfAv/ When time is so precious and work is talking over, it is very easy to stop doing the things that you love but that are not essential to your day-to-day life. For me, crafting has always been something that I love but not something that I need. So it has been something I have… Continue reading Bird for the Soul
Book Review: Life of Pi
http://instagram.com/p/V6R4ycTfBa/ Life of Pi by Yann Martel My rating: 4 of 5 stars I knew little of this book other than it had won the Man Booker Prize and that a film had been made of it recently, directed by Ang Lee. All I could tell (and the rear cover confirmed this) that the book… Continue reading Book Review: Life of Pi
How long
... is it until Easter?
Still here
This past week has not been particularly easy. Nothing terrible has happened but it has been a hard slog and I was only in school for 4 days. A day back at university only helped to bring anxieties and self-doubts to the surface culminating in several of the cohort in pieces. I thankfully saved my meltdown… Continue reading Still here
Notes From My Day 