Thank goodness it's half term

And typically the weather is crap!
Spending the time trying to get my head round maths - got new job and been put in charge of maths. Looking forward to it!

Switching from secondary to primary interview for TES

I was emailed a couple of weeks ago asking if I'd be interviewed for an article for TES on this. Well I mentioned it to Jo, who was quick off the mark and got her interview done on Thursday. So I emailed the journalist to bring mine forward, had said to do it on Tuesday as the kids are at grandparents! But touch of green with envy meant I had to get mine done too!
4:30 pm on the dot the phone rang, the house was strangly quiet (so different from what it is now - Katy has just kicked Fred over an argument about library books - that's another post!)

He asked lots of questions and I'm sure somewhere I've embarrassed myself - everytime I mentioned a job move, or change it was related to the dropping of a sprog! He kept laughing, so I think I said something interesting or just sounded mad!
Then he said would you consider going back, which is when I started laughing and had to confess I'd gone for a job as transition teacher - then we got onto discussing transition and I was off on one!
49 minutes we talked for! Must be a record! So I post on TES to se if Ronan's managed to talk for that long on one of his TES interviews, and Tafkam says he wants to be interviwed as he could upset both primary and secondary teachers in one fell swoop!
Naughty Tafkam - yes I did email him the TES journalists contact details! ;)

I nearly attacked the postman!

I saw him waddling down the drive, yawning, and clutching a large white package. It's my book I shout to the kids. It is I know it is I yell.
I expect a knock at the door, from what I could see of it, it was quite a big package then I heard it. His moans and groans as he tries to stuff it through the letter-box. I jump up. I run and open the front door, screams of "what do you think you are doing?" "That's my book, I'm in that book, a whole chapter! Be careful with that book!"
He looks at me blankly.
"Will you try and help me get this out of my letterbox? You've jammed it in! Why didn't you just knock the door? Do you know how important this book is?"
He removed it and handed it over.
Then just stood there.
You don't think he was waiting for me to show him the book do you?

Writing....

I was 1992 runner-up of Cosmo's New Writer of the Year - the article they published was totally fictious - it was about living as a girly student in a house of blokes (real life I was married with a two year old and expecting my second child - who actually dropped into the world, six weeks before my second years exams!)
I then got myself a Literary Agent, and usual story never quite made it - well when I look back, it was a novel about a girl who had to resort to working as a phone line worker who fell in love with Clive the hunchback dwarf who ran this perverted underground world but on realising her daughter would not get the life she deserved - she burnt the building down, destroying the sex-line industry and Clive! Who dies in the blaze... (erm......)
I got my agent at the same time as Martina Cole (Darley Anderson), she made it - I didn't - teaching kind of got in the way, in a lovely way of course!

Congratulations to Ronan

As a regular Tes poster in the Primary staffroom, it was lovely to hear that Ronan got his Headship post - can't think of a nicer, more caring and inspiring Head!
Good luck Ronan, you'll be amazing!
Only thing now is to persuade Dazza d to go for a headship - another insiring person who makes such a difference!

It's oh so quiet.....

Here in my house, we've fallen out - you see! Back in separate beds and icicles appear whenever we are in the same room. To describe the atmosphere as frosty is an under-statement, the temperature in here is at antarctic levels! I haven't dared take off my coat for the fear of frostbite!

If you know me in real life, you'll understand that keeping quiet for me is rather a huge challenge but I have managed it once for two hours when I was observing a governors meeting before I became a governor so I know I can do it. However, can I actually manage it for two weeks? Now that will be a challenge!

At least if he isn't talking to me, there will be no toe jam challenges or socks stuffed into my mouth! Things might not be so awful afterall!

Anyone Who Understand Computers has a massive IQ

Especially if they happen to be called Bauble. Your brain must be so big, did your mum feed you lots of spinich when you were little?
What would I have done without your help this afternoon? I have one huge headache and my bidding on ebay must go on - bidding for some tyres now. Why can't it be something exciting? Crumbs just realised where the seller is - he's in Cambridge!!!!! Guess that's a day trip out with the kids, I say day out, last time we went to buy an ebay purchase, they only got out of the car to have a wee -never mind he said, at least they saw Stonehenge - yes dear a flitting glance from a car!
Still at least it resulted in us having a nitrous sytem fixed to our Discovery....