April Showers....

Went off with lots of children to this wonderful place ...http://www.dellfarm.org/ last month - been there for seemingly ever over the past 15 or so years - every year lately I seem to be saying 'this is my last one...' And every year I manage to go back. Thanks Sacred Heart, from the bottom of my heart.

This year we got WET...possibly the wettest I've ever been there, and not ONE child moaned about that side of life..( might have moaned about missing mum, not being with a friend or not having a TV to watch, but not the weather!)

We walked forever...

and we ( the royal we...) ran up a big hill

and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves :))

Santa's 'Little' Helper...

Santa came to our place this week - made some little bunnies very happy!!

Snow Day

The Luscious Diane has just phoned to tell me school is closed.  This is outdoors right now!! 

This is the UK closing down for the day...

Nearly there...

One more day to go,

One more day of sorrow,

One more day in this old place,

And we'll be off the morrow...

Remember singing that as lad at school - feels that way at the moment!! There are a lot of excited little bunnies at our place with an attention span of about 5 seconds right now.

It's Christmas dinner today, so we're going to make hats for that, then calendars to take home...and, well probably watch a DVD.

What are our plans for the hols?

• It's Mother's 81st on Monday, so we're treating her to a trip to London , The Royal Albert Hall. Santa's Little Cracker, then a meal.
• Tuesday Debs and Camlin are coming up to stay, so it's another trip into London for me (Suzie, poor devil, has to work).
• Christmas Eve, we're off to Mother's again for the festive period - Daughter, Grand-Daughter and me via the tube, Suzie via work!!

as for New Year - http://lendal.blogspot.com/2008/10/been-planning.html

and we've go to take this fella...

Not Quite Friday SkyWatch...

(Click for other peoples' sky)

Here's my offering for this week

Again it's the school where I work - just as we were finishing for the day...

(sorry AGAIN about quality - only have a phone camera with me)

Today's photo...up the swanney....

Kids just adore this in the play area....

Blossom

Here's the first photo-blog pic then -

It's a tree that's just come alive outside our classes - makes the day a bit brighter in this drab spring weather.

Good morning all.

For some reason awake bloody early, so wash, shave and a cup of tea and sat here surfing away through other peoples lives on the random blog changer!!

Haven't been to this one for a while, but it's quite reassuring that there really are some quite normal people in the 'Good Old USA' !! http://livelaughlove-millville.blogspot.com/

I'm going to blatantly steal the idea stolen by http://angelsonnn.blogspot.com/ of a daily photo blog - especially as I now have ANEWPHONE !!

Been going the gym regularly again since January - definitely feeling the benefit now; weight slowly going down, tummy still very visible though, a few aches and pains as the creaking bones creak a bit more!! Started to go again as my lower back was aching far too much - still does, but in twinges, rather than the constant ache that was there. Suzie is coming as well now - aiming to get that size smaller wedding dress!!

Ah, well, better finish cup of tea, put on tie and wander off to school - I like today, it's my every other Wednesday when I have non-contact time ALL morning, which usually means nothing much done of my own as I'm grabbed to do the boysie tech stuff around the school - like yesterday; 'my projector won't work' - it did when I turned the plug on....

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

or so says Aldous Huxley, in his 'Vedanta for the Western World, 1945'... and I would have to agree with him. I'm exceedingly happy at present, and it's not due to an over abundance of cash or worldly goods (but the 32inch TV is fun) - it's just due to life being very equable at the moment.

We had a stunning holiday in Kiwi land, this young lady has just started school,

and my present class is full of happy young children, and my boss trusts me to get my work done.

Holidays are planned for Christmas (Mum's 80th birthday in Whitby, February (Poland - a boys adventure this one), Whitsun (camping with Kids/Grand kids) and we're getting married next August...honeymoon in Rhodes (http://www.atlanticahotels.com/section.php?id=9 )booked!!!

We're not in each others face, but feel joined by an umbilical cord that stretches well (especially when I'm at the footie...).

Financially life isn't such a pancake, but, eh, has it ever been for me? We're working on saving the ten thou or so we reckon it'll cost us for the wedding, then we'll need a new car each after that AND save to go back to NZ at Christmas 2009!!





I suppose I've thought about this because I needed to get a copy of my Decree Absolute to prove I am free to re-marry. Sat looking at the dates married 22 August 1987 (which coincidentally is Suzie's birthday!!) and divorced Dec 1999. Was I ever happy between those dates? I can't really recall when (without the help of alcohol) I was. Isn't that sad?


Suzie is not having a good weekend - combination of family (of course...)hormones and mummy moments, but I think she is generally happy.

Oh Blow It - WE'RE HAPPY!!!

And so is she....:)