Well we’ve still got three weeks before school finishes for the summer. However the attitude of many of our students seems to be Exams are over so I’m not coming to school anymore. This is made worse by the fact that next week is Eid and so school is closed for the week; then weContinue reading “4. End of term looming.”
Category Archives: Reflections
3 Flying like lead balloons.
Of course we had to do our test flights. I wanted to go out to the outside balcony overlooking the sports field – actually it is an astro-turf football pitch – but they all complained that it was too hot outside. Back home in England I would be facing the opposite problem with students demandingContinue reading “3 Flying like lead balloons.”
2. The last few days
It’s the end of year and so to everyone’s deep joy it is exam time. Some of the students have been really good to me by inventing pointless answers to some of the questions and basically just writing random numbers for answers. One of the Year 7 boys decided that every question requiring an answerContinue reading “2. The last few days”
School blog – Intro
So the UK didn’t quite work out how I expected. Coming home? Home is where the heart is, so they say. Clearly my home is no longer Liverpool. I suppose realistically I left that ‘home’ at 19 when I went off to the Polytechnic. A new life, a new world, a new set of people;Continue reading “School blog – Intro”
Chapter 20
A far-out night in Far – That what must it be! Escape from Wails was complete. It was clear to Peter that Both contained some painful memories for Hanny; she had denied him amongst her oldest friends. He knew at this point in the narrative that he was madly in love with that fairy ofContinue reading “Chapter 20”
Chapter 4
In the Court of the King with the Crimson Face. It turned out to be much easier than ever to find their way there, to the Great Hall in the Great Castle in the Great City of Setebos. They did turn left and enter door number three. From there they had to work their wayContinue reading “Chapter 4”
Chapter 2
The hero The screams were unmerciful. It was as though all the sinners of the world had combined into one unholy union and screeched their anguish into a synthesised megaphone. Was someone being whipped a cripple? The yelps of misery continued but fluctuated with a moaning like the desperate sob of a Brontosaurus attempting toContinue reading “Chapter 2”
Review – The Adventures of Fairy Hanny
I’m close to publishing the Third book featuring the gorgeous Fairy Hanny. In the next Adventure we see Hanny spirited away through Time to the Land of Faery, where she is enlisted to help the Sons of Turenn in their quests to pay off the Blood Debt owed to Lugh after the murder of Kian.Continue reading “Review – The Adventures of Fairy Hanny”
How Journaling Can Help with Mental Health Issues
Some ideas to consider when journaling. Keeping any type of journal will help with improving any mental health issues. However, if you really want to tackle a specific problem you’re having, it will help to determine the right type of journal to keep. Keeping a particular kind of journal may work best for your issue.Continue reading “How Journaling Can Help with Mental Health Issues”
Ten Types of Journals You Can Create
When you begin journaling it will likely occur to you that having more than one type of journal might be the best way to keep everything organized better. When you have more than one type of journal, you can simply go to the specific journal to work on one issue at a time or keepContinue reading “Ten Types of Journals You Can Create”
Fairy Hanny 