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UPDATE - Dangerous occupation, this teaching lark!

Yesterday it was the turn of the nose, today the shin.
I wonder what tomorrow will bring?

It's just a small hole ..... less than a centimetre, but it was caused by an angry little boy with a well-aimed stroke from a plastic hockey stick. I'm just grateful we weren't using wooden sticks and that he ran away rather than going for a second shot.

The nose is much better, but still rather painful.

Colour-wise it's gradually getting more interesting, but I had hoped for something a bit better than this!

Now, this is more like it.

As clean as a whistle .... or not

My bloody whistle!

These are the last vestiges of my little accident at work.

I was busy teaching a PE lesson and had cause to ask a little boy to come to the front and sit down. Unfortunately for me, he chose to sit down rather more exuberantly than I had expected and preceded his sit with a leap into the air, at which point his head made rather sharp contact with my nose.

It is quite amazing the amount of blood that can flow from something as small as a nose and for so long. Still, an hour later the bleeding had more or less stopped and my nose was developing an interesting swelling.
Two hours later black eyes were beginning to appear.

I look forward to seeing what I look like in the morning.

I like the northeast

My brother went to a Paul Simon concert.
He brought me a present back.
It is a CD of this single.

The wisdom of Andy

Andy says wise things to people. In this picture he was saying wise things to Tim.

Andy said something very wise tonight.
He said:

"I have a heaviness about me."

I defy anyone to deny the truth of this.

Andy, I hope you feel less heavy tomorrow.

Practising how to spell practice

I've had this discussion with a few people .... I have always been under the impression that to spell practice like this is a noun and that practise is the verb. Some have disagreed with this understanding. I looked it up.

From the Oxford Dictionary site:

practice - noun
Do not confuse practice with practise. Practice is a noun meaning 'the action of doing something rather than the theories about it' (putting policy into practice), whereas practise is a verb meaning 'do something repeatedly to improve your skill' (they were practising for the Olympics). In American English, both the noun and the verb are spelled practice.

I've always said, as an example to help to remember, to make it match advice (noun) and advise (verb) .... same spelling, same part of speech, different pronunciation, but still a good guide as to which practice to use.

Well, I hadn't posted for a while and I was feeling teacher-ish.

Here endeth the lesson.

This weekend I am going to Birmingham. It's a clever little trick. I have a meeting there on Monday for which I get travelling expenses. So I am using the free journey to spend the weekend with Ruth and Matt before the meeting. It will be good to spend time with them. Very cool. They have been busy doing up their front room ... well, so far knocking it to bits I think. I'm looking forward to seeing the partial transformation.

Well, there, that was a boring post.

We had nice curry for tea too.

Louise finally has her broadband from TalkTalk .... it was only 3 months later than they promised. She wasn't impressed. Still nice that it has finally arrived.

Erm .... still no job. Another 3 applications in, but I'm no longer holding my breath.

I'll try to do better next time.

Jason, this is how Andy shows off.

No further comment needed.