Moonlit shenanigans

I decided to go for an alternative to my normal backup blip of the moon and try and catch the sky with the moonlit clouds instead. I stood in our back garden for 15 minutes freezing my knees off, taking photos and listening to the wonderfully articulate and insightful conversations of a group of chav kids who have taken to using the alley behind our house as their place to hide, play JLS songs on their phones and probably (judging from the protracted silences in between bouts of f***in this and f***in that) snogging each other silly.

The others are here

Work is getting difficult at the moment - its the countdown towards the end of term and it is getting hard to maintain momentum and motivation for all of us. It is compounded by the impending retirement of a much loved colleague who is going to leave a very big hole in the day to day life of our school. It was really difficult this afternoon to watch him wading through his filing cabinets, throwing away the accumulated paperwork of decades in the school. People touch your life in ways you don't realise until its time to say goodbye to them.

Other than that, some positive moments again - progress with students and colleagues, a sense of driving things forward. Frustration that time runs away so quickly sometimes that you have to delay time with colleagues, which causes annoyance for all concerned - I don't like to let people down.

So Corin has just (from the clattering noises downstairs) emptied the dishwasher, so its time for me to make packed lunches and then mop the floor - I know its time to do that, because my feet are sticking where my little cherub has managed to spill juice around the bin :-) Cats and kids. Messy things :-)