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Paloma Bar and Resto, Sanur, Bali.

Deaking with life… in a bar I was welcomed as I had been there before! I sat down with a beer and a menu, and then a pissed up Australian decided I was his mate. He sat opposite me and started jabbering about being born in England but moved to Australia when he was elevenContinue reading “Paloma Bar and Resto, Sanur, Bali.”

Teachers who have a previous career…

Teaching reflections – not in a Physics class. Why do so many people who enter teaching after a failed career somewhere else, feel they know how to run a school? I once knew a Headmaster who started out as an accountant, then trained as a Solicitor, became a school Bursar, then was appointed as aContinue reading “Teachers who have a previous career…”

Arrogant idiots

Dunning-Kruger syndrome I get fed up with stupid people who think they know everything. I see people these days who pick up their phones when I tell them some Historical or Political fact. They feel they have to check what I said. I call that rude ignorance. It takes me back to a former arrogantContinue reading “Arrogant idiots”

Farts and retirement

Retirement. I’ve tried it a few times now and it hasn’t worked. When I left my school in China as a Headmaster I thought that would be it. I believed I’d done some marvellous investments which were due to come to fruition… I was wrong – still fighting that one 14 years later! After aContinue reading “Farts and retirement”

4.  End of term looming.

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.”

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”

N 0ther chapter

Big Bad Regan As Orcs go, Regan was a bad one. I know this implies that some Orcs are therefore good, which is not really the case. Rather than say an Orc is good it is best to say some of them are less bad than the others. This is Politically Correct Adventure Doublespeak. InContinue reading “N 0ther chapter”