Dreams

The holidays are coming to an end and the new term at school is coming ever closer at a rate of knots. I seem to have spent much of the last week sat at my computer planning and fretting about all the things I probably have to do before starting school that I don’t know about. I often find that when I am stressed I have dreams about school. At my last school I remember having a dream where a group of children just wouldn’t go out for play and let me go up to the staff room at break time, no matter what I did they would sneak past me and go back into the classroom or they would out and out defy me and stay where they were in my way. I was clearly insecure about my behaviour management at the time. Though thankfully I found that my behaviour management was never that bad when I actually stood in front of the class. Last night I had a dream that my classroom had been extended and that the corridor outside had been knocked into my classroom as well to make it bigger. I was most upset because of all the work that I had put in to make the room look good and now it looked a mess again and wasn’t in the state that I had left it. I don’t think I have anything to worry about here either, there is nothing that will make me quite as ill prepared for school starting as that!

It's a Knockout video

Check out a video of the It's a Knockout competition I was in a couple of weeks ago on the Blackpool Gazette website. You even get a couple of glimpses of me, see if you can spot me!!

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/mri/20000-raised-in-day-of.3105179.jp

Shopping list

Today I made a shopping list, and ticked off what I had bought.

It's A Knockout!

Today I was part of a team from Blenheim House in Blackpool competing in an It's A Knockout tournament to raise money for MRI Scanner facilities for children at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. At the moment children who need an MRI scan have to go to Preston. Although the afternoon got off to a late start (we were there at half 12 and didn't get to do anything until half 3...) once we got going it was fabulous fun! There was a lot of water, lots of inflatables, some foam, some injuries... Our team was up against Radio Wave and The Gazette, which was helpful because they kept sabotaging each other and we kept winning! I admit to having been somewhat competitive and eager to win... The photo above is of the last race, we had to run up and down the hills on the inflatable which was covered in foam and water and into a pit of muddy water at the end, run to pick up a piece of luggage and then carry it back. It was really difficult because it was so slippy you couldn't stand up...but I made a significant lead ahead of the other two teams if I do say so myself! We went on to get second place, only one point separated us from first - gutted! But we did ourselves proud.

Friends and weddings

I have been up to Newcastle this weekend for a friend's wedding, and most beautiful it was too :)
It was lovely again to catch up with friends who no longer live in the same place, talk about times past and one another's lives, marvel at how things change and yet stay the same and part looking forward to the next time we will be together...