Teachers Pets

Spud and Joe walking home*
It was parents evening at Joes school recently, it went very well, which is great news because school hasn’t always been a happy  place for Joe. Mr Uhdd was fair glowing with pride when he got home; for not only had Joe received a good report, the head stopped Mr [...]

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And the Light Shineth in Darkness;

This plaque on the door of Sherford  parish church, Sherford, Devon caught my eye

Maybe they didn’t think electricity was here to stay, or perhaps it was just for reasons of economy.
 
That they inserted the electric light bulb into the original oil lamps. Or just possibly it might have been, that having lived through [...]

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Seadogs

Salcombe is awash with dogs, that just have to be part of the action.

 

Terriers it seems are more of a seadog than I realised, or maybe it’s just  that have to lead from the front.
I remember this dog from last year

Now I’ve got a better broadband connection and a little child free [...]

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Blue Bird (it’s child’s play really)

This is Boris, he is very beautiful,
 

I have more photos to show you, but for now I can go to bed happy that I have managed to  adjust, crop, copy and get a  photo to this blog, having today unwrapped a copy of Lightroom photo editing software, it seems mightily sophisticated compared to [...]

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First Floor Office

 
I’m not very good at settling down and cracking on with some work when there are distractions around, I just can’t shut out background noise very easily and other peoples phone conversations derail my train of thought. So a couple of weeks ago Joe and I hauled some furniture around and made me a little [...]

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Algebra

It’s strange what thoughts come to mind, when you disengage the brain, knock it out of gear and leave ticking over for a while. I was standing by this river, listening and watching the tumbling water, contemplating you might say; when the topic of algebra leapt into my mind, it wasn’t a welcome thought.
When I [...]

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Pleased to Report

The end of the school year, both boys have had their end of year school reports, and all’s well, Joe’s contained some classic quotes, that we will be able to embarrass him with in the years to come, from his form teacher.
His part in the school play as the mad scientist was particularly appropriate [...]

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Dotting and Crossing

I have spent the morning in an exam, don’t ask what on, I won’t tell you (sorry, it’s half a story, I know)
It’s the first time I have ever sat down at a proper, grown up exam, that starts at the top of the page and goes on and on, until, you either run out [...]

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Reading Between the Lines

Noddy tagged me, it’s all about books; well the reason it’s taken me well over two weeks to write this post is that the prospect of writing it put me into therapy! I have a complex relationship with the printed word, I’ve touched on it before
But here is the brief
“Books are scarce in the world. [...]

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Mad House

I have spent some time today searching for my glasses, I could remember I brought them in from the car on Saturday, when I got back from shopping, but I couldn’t find them, not until I  was preparing some lunch and there they were; in the fridge, in the bag with a pound and a [...]

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