Marking

Today's low cloud and steady light rain made it easy to stay in and mark. I'd have completed more than 30% of it if I hadn't had a 90-minute meeting at 13:30. Hopefully I'll get more done this evening. My eyes will suffer - studying scans of handwritten exam scripts is quite intense - but I'm taking half a day off tomorrow, since the forecast is good.

There seems to be very little anti-social behaviour in the Faroe Islands, as I've seen essentially no litter, graffiti, drunkenness or vandalism. However, on Sunday morning, I saw that there had been a bit of (drunken?) damage to the flower bed near the Co-op. I re-planted one tulip that had been pulled out whole, and collected three viable buds from the pavement, putting them in a glass in the apartment. 

For those interested, there are still daffodils in bud here, and only the most sheltered tulips have flowered. Some trees and bushes are coming into leaf.