Yesterday whilst hanging around Orkut I found some pictures of old friends and classmates, which I admit put me in a nostalgic mood but also a strange one. Recently people I meet, complete strangers on trains even seem to be so wistful about their school days. As though they really were the best days of … Read More

I am an artist. I appreciate physical beauty, there is nothing inherantly wrong with that fact. But do I appreciate physical beauty at the expense of other sorts? For a long time I would not admit I was an artist, I was ‘studying art’, I was ‘an art student’, I was anything except an artist. … Read More

You and me, I can see us dying, are we? Touch me. How do people touch me? How does eveyone bloody touch me? Close up, oyster shell like and there are pick axes that find their way in. You caught me on the raw, and with but few words had me falling to the floor, … Read More

I met a very small pixie today, she was pretending to be a tiny girl with very large brown eyes but I wsn’t fooled. She was obviously a pixie. I am at home today, surrounded by parents, parents friends and that whole ‘small village’ thing where everybod knows your name and your business and obviously … Read More

Girls scream Boys shout, Dogs bark, School’s out. Not my own thank gods…oh well. Home again. Home? Can I actually call it home? No probably not, house where my parents live would be closer. Quitting the country, quitting this life that has built up around me like mould. Maybe now they won’t expect me to … Read More

Done. Dusted. Finished with. We got certificates with little red ribbons. I didn’t have to socialise with the people on my course and all was fine. I discovered that I’m not the only one to have gone mad during the course. I also re-discovered that it is not considered normal by the majority of society … Read More

No. I refuse. I’ll teeter, I’ll totter and I’ll be swept along by the wind. Watch me! Just Watch me fail spectacularly…but whatever I do…the wind keeps me up here, it’s the wind I’m telling you it’s the wind. Don’t look at me I don’t know how I’m still here. I shouldn’t be here. Soon … Read More

Child Protection again…I’m not sure I can do this teaching lark when such horrible things can happen. Anyway I was fairly down when I was in the Supermarket buying the Yellow Dart donuts and I get tapped on the shoulder. I turn around; there’s no one there. And I just know who it is; Spikey … Read More

(It should be explained that the NUT are the National Union of Teachers, NASUWT are the National Association of Schoolmasters and Unioin of Women Teachers, and NSEAD are the National Society for Education in Art and Design Well the NUT are not enamouring themselves to me. At my first school placement the NUT kept saying … Read More

Hope I remembered this meme right… If there’s someone you can’t stop thinking about, copy and paste this sentence into your LJ