I've just booked a month long trip around the USA in February and March. I might get a bit of snowboarding in whilst I'm in Colorado and Vermont
So had the final mentoring session with my two year 11 students before the end of term over the lunch break. This is my fourth year mentoring and I cannot tell you how good the feeling is when you work with a couple of teenage lads on general life skills and are greeted with a firm handshake and a confident face to face welcome. They have grown tremendously over the last year and now have a confidence to be who they are, actually talk to you about problems and hopes and seem to enjoy a sense of freedom to talk about any subject without fear of censure. GCSEs over the next couple of terms but they seem to have a grip and are actually time managing study time ! Andy
Done a 14 hr shift in Wimborne yesterday with 2 hrs driving each way. but while there, on my 30 min lunch break i bought a 1.5kg Scottish bone in rib from the butcher which leads me to what i have done today! Heated the oven to max (bout 280c) smothered the meat in a mix of sticky barbeque marinade, sweet chille sauce, lee n perrins, garlic and salt n pepper. thrown it in the oven on max for 10 mins, turned oven off and there it sits for 2 hours (dont open door!!!) bottle of melbec whist waiting and basking in the warm sweet smell of beef. No veg tonight, just a fresh loaf, butter and the sticky stuff from the bottom of the pan.. YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bad news: Lost my mate Bob to pneumonia. He was an old boy from down my local, been ever so lonely since his wife died, so we kind of took him under our wing. Really nice old fella with some amazing stories. RIP fella Good news: Been offered £770 for my jalopy (minus the £250 excess of course). I'm quite chuffed with that to be honest. They offered me £400 yesterday, but probably guessed I wasn't happy by the way I laughed and hung up on them...
Today's the twelfth anniversary of me losing my spine and both testicles. On the bright side, we did get some decent wedding presents
There's a lot you don't know about this International (wo)man of Mystery..... I must say I do like pie-lates.................. especially with buttery garlic mash, and onion graveeee
Long day spent battling laptops, laptop users and a mini rollout of PCs at one of the smaller sites. Plus VOIP telephones, PC faults, blah-dee-blay, yaddayadda. Red wine and music for me. I'm listening to a Mojo Compendium of Modern Psychedelia right now
Work Christmas meal at Anokaa in Salisbury, the Duck cutlet melted on the mouth. Back to work, worked like a Trojan to get stuff finished, off now until Tuesday, over to the Black Forest and Christmas markets for a long weekend.
Belfast and back. And seem to be developing a head cold, according to the lovely hostess...as she gave me drigs, some obus pil and a free botle of water on the flight when I had sudden and excruciating pain in my eye Every day is a school day
Attended a meeting addressed by Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, about ideas for codifying (and amending) the UK constitution. They have invited submissions. House of Commons - A new Magna Carta? - Political and Constitutional Reform Get involved in the Committee’s consultation: "a new Magna Carta?" - UK Parliament
Removed a second quarter of the Ivy tree monster that had encapsulated the entire roof of a workshop over a period of 10 years or more.I've never seen anything like it as it had created it's own eco structure up there, an earthy carpet densely woven with many tenacious tentacles and around an inch thick in places no longer needing any root attachment with the ground.
