fitness and liquorice whips

Evening all...

Hope you are all well in your various global positions. I am feeling virtuos this evening.

I will come to the hieght of my virtuousness later, as i fell i should say a little about my psat few days.

Well. This week i have been VERY CROSS and VERY HAPPY! CROSS first... lets get it out of the way... On thursday I went into work with a good attitude and was in a very good mood by the time i arrived. This was cut short by people moaning in the staffroom before school and then again at lunch by a member of staff slagging off one of my children (who i quite like even tho he's a behaviour problem). Afternoon was slightly redeemed by My genius topic afternoon. As PArt of Topic, we are looking at pictures of objects with meaning. SO we looked at some still life painting and photos, discussing how it made us feel and why the artist had chosen these objects... i culminated in this picture.:

I like this as it is a continuous line drawing. The artist never lifted the pen. I love drawing like this an proceeded to get my kid to draw an object in this style. After a while i did my favourite 'silly' acitvity... get a pen... get paper... get a partner... look directly into partners eyes and try and continuous line draw partner withour taking pen off paper OR looking at drawing. Its SOOOOO funny!! the kids were dead good and critically commented on both the pros and cons of the process and each others drawings.

Later that day my geek staus emerged. Senior management have been devising a new maths assessment and a colleague had produed a table to record results in... together we realised that it would actually be easier to do an Excel spreadsheet, that way it would calculate reprts and percentage acheivement automatically. I volunteered to have alook at the possibility. I spent 2 hours when i got back from school, creating said excel spreadsheet. and very prod of it i am!!

Friday was good, as i decided I couldn't be arsed with Gymnastics for 2 hours, and so decided to set up a tricky obstacle course and sent them off in threes (one blind fold) to guide each other round. The less said about this idea the better... however, i shall tag it with two words... Good and Noisy!! After school, we had friday club... love this club... much like the programme teachers, we all head for a drink to the local on a friday after school. This week was good as russell, quinny and Gemmma all came for a drink too. I got vey nostalgic in my head and went very quiet... tho i don;t think it was noticed!!

My friday night pizza, wine and DVD contiued with MEat feast ... 2 glasses of red wine... 'Be kind rewind' dvd and by 8:30 (half way thru the film) asleep time on the sofa!! i'm def getting old!

Today I decided to test run a cycle to work. I'm planning on being organised and not taking any work home, so i can cycle to and from work. Today was a test run to make sure it wasn't horrific! OH MY GOD i loved it!! I even took photos along the way!

This is during my journey on the greenway. About 70-80% of the whole route to work is on greenways like this, through woods and fields. Its made up of 3 greenways and i only have to be near any buildings or cars for 5 mins max!! woo hoo!!


This is the wreck of the bike i own. TOok it to wheelspin bikes to see if they though it was worth repairing ( i cleaned and serviced it tot he bvest of my ability). they were very impressed i'd taken such good care of it! This was a pleasure short lived, because the guy next to me at the desk stopped talking, looked at me and then continued his conversation about £2000 replacement shocks for his bike. Now I don;t have anything against improving bikes, and given unlimited money i would happily chuck my hunk of junk and buy a good road bike, but as i have no money and this joy of a bike i make do. i more objected to his look... i can;t help it i have a skip bike?!

Anyway, cycle was really good. The sunshine probably made it better, but still. I loved it. At many points during the journey i grinned like a small child due to the greatness of being active, but also at having my faith restored in humanity... i've never seen so many families out together since i was little!! Families walking dogs, families out for a walk, families on bikes! I was so happy and said hello to everyone, much to thier surprise!!!

This evening i have been thinking about my birthday celebrations... 4 months is not a lot of time so i need to start thinking hard. looked into canal boats and events happening in January... my proudest moment was putting 'pirate party january 2009' into google! :)

I leave you with a question....

When we were playing with magnets in class this week one of my children discoverd that the N pole was stronger on mist of the bar bagnets than the S pole

>>> My question: is this because we in the UK are nearer magnetic north?!<<<<<

INTI xxxxx