Pic of the week, 16/2/20
Friday brought both Valentine’s Day and the start of half-term. Clearly a bit of a theme in the cards that Becky & I exchanged!
February half-term is always an important milestone with, possibly, one of the toughest periods of the school year completed and life seems to improve from here on in. The longer days and (hopefully) improving weather, coupled with the blooming of early spring bulbs is a part of it – a significant part – but not the whole. With GCSE and A level classes reaching the conclusion of their syllabus, teaching tends to get easier as one begins to regularly reach for those past papers. Plus, the last half term was the last six+ week-er of the school year: its now two fives and a four – much more manageable timescales that the seemingly interminable Autumn term.
But the weather is yet to do its bit. After a battering from storm Ciara last week, we had a brief respite on Wednesday and Thursday, before storm Denis barreled into our lives, delivering a maelstrom of wind and rain from Saturday morning. I had a game on Saturday afternoon, which survived due to being on astro (but, annoyingly, my observer who was due to come and do the final assessment of my promotion year didn’t make it to the game) which I enjoyed despite the wind and rain. My game this morning was cancelled so it was another 50 lengths of Strode pool to start my day today. After a brief couple of hours late this afternoon when the rain stopped and the sun shined, as I write the wind and rain are back. Looks like a wet week ahead.
Sophie is back home for the week, on a reading week from Reading University, and Sam should be knuckling down to do some work. I think it has finally dawned on him that time is beginning to run out – the intentions are there, but the actions have yet to match.
And my experiments with my longer hair continue. Still undecided, so have to spend much time looking in the mirror to help me make up my mind …
Manana, tengo mi primer clase por hablar espanol con mi maestra de italki. Yo estoy un poco de nervioso, pero seguro que voy a disfrutalo.
Hasta luego!