Archive for the 'ambitions' Category
New new new new new
One of the truisms about media/advertising is that advertisers are keen on the 16-34 year old demographic, because it’s relatively cheaper to persuade one of these individuals to try something new, or to change brands. The over 40s, on the other hand, while they may have more disposable income than the younger age group, are [...]
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Now, that’s what I call Easter…
Easter seems really early this year, but for once is falling on the correct date, more or less, the spring equinox, which is nice.
My school had an inset day today, ahead of the long weekend, and the task was to moderate coursework. For various reasons, I’ve given up chasing students for late work, so I’m [...]
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I just can’t be bothered…
I didn’t bother to watch Mistresses on BBC1 last night, because it looked like yet another low-rent attempt to “do” something like Desperate Housewives, which is not much to aim at in itself. One up from an afternoon soap. Mistresses had that Sarah Parish in it, and she’s been in waaaaay too many of these [...]
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Paranoid Bloggers Unite
Is it a coincidence I wonder that I blog a couple of times about baking a sourdough loaf a couple of weeks ago and this weekend the Guardian group newspapers decide to publish baking supplements? I wonder how that idea was presented to the editor? “Yeah, just woke up one day and it came to [...]
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I am not not not disunqualified
(Advanced is the kind you get when you have a PhD.)
I don’t know whether or not to be embarrassed by the fact that I have had an account on eBay since April 2001 but am only now selling my first item using that account. I also have never bought anything. So it doesn’t look good, [...]
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Ker-ching
This put a smile on my face.
Some time ago, I mentioned my intention to see about transferring value from my accrued civil service pension (where I worked between the ages of 19 and 28) into my fledgling teacher pension (where I have arrived rather late in life). I found out that, if I had [...]
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Parsed
200-year-old joke:
“My wife’s given up transporting slaves.”
“Jamaica?”
“No, she realised it was wrong.”
As part of your teacher qualification, you have to take the QTS Skills tests in Maths, English, and ICT. The latter two, I’m reliably informed, are a bit of a joke. The maths, however, I was a bit worried about, it having been 1979 [...]
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Those who can’t…
…teach.
We’re rolling up the popular music module now, as time accelerates towards the end of the school year. It’s interesting to note how the students seem to be finding the work easier as we go on. That’s not because the work is easier, naturally, but because they actually have been learning stuff. From me! I [...]
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Spaced
I have cancelled my account on myspace. Unfortunately, some of the students were displaying an interest in my music on there. I didn’t really mind, and didn’t have anything on there that embarrassed me, and I’d removed links to my blog etc., but it just struck me that – if this interest grew or spread, [...]
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Search Me
Ignoring the drought obsessives and the olive green suit obsessives, and leaving to one side the CBBC Raven obsessives, people frequently visit this blog looking for lesson plans. Ha ha! Especially, they look for lesson plans to do with certain films, those that I have in fact posted lesson plans for. But none of these [...]
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