Back to school

Tomorrow is the first day of the last term of our school year. 

10 GOOD things about going back to school tomorrow:

1. it is the last term of our school year!
2. it is spring (although someone in the weather-dispatch department doesn't seem to have got his/her head around that yet)
3. at the end of the term comes Christmas
4. and our long summer vacation
5. sometime in the next few weeks our new house will be handed over to us and we shall move in (theoretically, November 3rd. Watch this space)
6. it will be great to leave the rented house we have been in since we sold our old house in March
7. for Christmas, my daughter, her husband and their 2 children will be home from Adelaide, Australia
8. and my son and his lovely Italian partner will be here from Barcelona
9. once the seniors go on exam leave (on November 7th) I shall have time to do all of the Head of Department stuff which has been piling up, and piling up....
10. it is the shortest term of the four

  10 BAD things about going back to school tomorrow:

1. it's Monday
2. AND I'll have to get up at 5.50 am
3. these holidays have only been two weeks long - not long enough
4. I feel as if I haven't done enough preparation
5. the weather has been rubbish for most of the two weeks
6. I haven't done all of the things on my "to-do" list
7. I haven't even done half of them!
8. until the seniors leave (see above) it will be full-on, hard-core revision, revision, revision. Hard work and generally unexciting for the teacher :(
9. moving house, again. Stress, marital dissension, exhaustion, expense...
10. my most senior class (18-yr-olds) will be leaving school to start their adult lives. This particular class contains a number of students whom I have taught in an extension group for 4 or 5 years. They are lovely kids, very bright and focussed. I shall miss them greatly.

 

 

Pictures from a visit to The Sculpture Park about this time last year

Angles everywhere

Some building-a-house shots for this week's Thematic Photographic theme.

See here for some extreme angles.

These have been taken over the last couple of months:

The house is all closed in now, and they're working inside. Completion date is October 29, but we had such a wet winter that they must be a week or two behind.

Sigh.

I guess we'll get there sometime!

Sunday update

So last week in my "unfinished" series, I posted the progress on our new house.

Three weeks ago:

Two weeks ago:

Last week:

Here's yesterday afternoon's shots, 3 weeks in:

Things are actually happening. It's raining - heavily. Will the builders work tomorrow?
I'll keep you posted - whether you like it or not! 

It's back to school tomorrow - am I rested? relaxed? ready?   Pffft...

You all have a wonderful Monday, and a great week

TP 202: Unfinished series

I had to have another go at this theme. The builders have finally started work on our new house, so this is an unfinished series - with, I fear, a few months to go, especially given the kind of mid-winter weather we've been having....

Two weeks ago, a bare site:

One week ago:

Late yesterday afternoon, in the fading light:

Watch this space...