It seems to be my week for aches and pains. Yesterday, I woke up with a bad back, that has improved, but now I have a huge bruise on my leg, another just below my elbow and a sore shoulder, thanks to a rather undignified stair incident. I was walking downstairs, when my slipper fell off, in the process of trying to retrieve it, while simultaneously avoiding the overhang* I lost my footing, fell in a heap and slid down the last six steps. Ouch!
In the News:
The IPCC have upheld a complaint from the family of Hayley Richards, who was killed by her boyfriend a week after reporting him to the police for a previous attack. It seems so terribly wrong that in the 21st century women are still dying because domestic violence reports are not being taken seriously. A sizable number of schools are without a permanent Head and large classes are on the increase. Fortunately, my Boys go to a village school where class sizes are limited, because the number of pupils is relatively small, but I sympathise with anyone whose child is in this situation. It’s really not good for pupils or teachers.
Other Stuff:
I’ve just signed a pledge over at Pledgebank, promising not to leave my mobile phone charger plugged in when it’s not in use. This is a bad habit of mine, and one I am determined to break. Five more people are needed to make the pledge a success, so visit this page, and sign up please.
Feeling musical? Well, have a go at this. It really is a lot of fun, even for the non-musically inclined. I have to admit my own composition was more than a little discordant, but on the bright side it would have gone down well at a jazz festival. Well, that’s my theory and I’m sticking to it LOL
* Low ceilings are one of the perils of living in a cottage, and the overhang on our staircase is very low. In fact anyone over 5’5” has to duck to avoid banging their bonce. This also makes moving large items of furniture a problem.
Listening to: You Do Something To Me – Paul Weller
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Kate
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Jack Yan
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Just had a quick look at your blog which looks very interesting. I shall try to put a link to your site but I’m obviously not as comfortable with the web as you are so it may not happen immediately.
Re your comment about class sizes – I am currently enraged that my new neighbours are unable to send their child to the local village school. Their four-year old has been given a place at a school in the next village (which will require a car or taxi journey) even though the local school is literally the other side of the hedge at the bottom of the garden.
The school has filled its 30 places for the reception year and so anyone else must go to appeal. There are ten such appeals at the moment, all from children within the catchment area. My neighbours only moved in three weeks ago so they were unable to get their child’s name down in time. The school will get a bit more money for any additional children, but not enough for another teacher and no guarantees for what may happen in the years ahead.
I’ve just signed up; glanced across the kitchen and there’s my mobile charger, plugged in and doing nothing …
Hi Irene
Don’t worry about a link, mine are part of my Blogroll, so get added automatically, and are there for my use as much as anything.
Your neighbours experience seems to be getting more and more common place. Whatever happened to the days when local schools were given enough funding for all the children in that area? So far this hasn’t been a problem here, but I guess it is just a metter of time.
Ally, same here. As I was signing up, I knew my charger was plugged in, but not connected to the phone. I am also going to start putting it away when not in use . . . a couple of years ago I had buy a new phone because I accidently threw the charger away on Christmas morning. It got swept up in a bundle of wrapping paper, and I couldn’t get a new one because the phone was ancient.