film quality, was so poor we had to go to bed and improvise instead.
I sat on the edge of the bed, wearing a black blouse, black skirt (if you can call it a skirt, more a waistband) and black stockings and facing a mirror. James sat on the bed behind me and slowly removed my clothes.
He didn't use any Algipan this time so I didn't need to use a glass of water afterwards.
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Started reading Chapter House Dune , I cannot decide whether Frank Herbert is a sexist or not - I suspect that is exactly the impression he wanted to create. If this were made into a film it would certainly rival one of James' videos. In fact, since it contains the dread word p***s, it would undoubtedly have that part of Miles Teg snipped off!
James did the shopping.
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Sunday 6th March
We visited Wakehurst Park. The Skoda very nearly didn't make it and my enjoyment of the delights of nature was marred by anxiety about our ability to get home. This apprehension was justified because on the way home we did indeed break down and have to call out the AA.
Even so, I think we ought to visit Wakehurst more because it is free to life-members of the National Trust. I well remember the looks of disbelief on the faces of my friends at college when I announced that I had joined the National Trust. I went on to explain that I thought they were doing something to preserve our heritage and wildlife etc. and the looks of disbelief turned to looks of astonishment.
When I eventually demanded to know what they had against the National Trust, they told me that I had evidently used the work "Front" instead of "Trust."
The man from the AA was a surly bastard - not at all like the very nice man on the TV.
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Monday 7th March
Information Technology is driving me barmy. It isn't so much that we have not got enough computers. It is just that they were all bought at different times, so they don't all run the same programs. At any one time my pupils are working on three different wordprocessors and asking me how to "justify the right margin", "justify both margins" or "switch on justification." which sound like different things but are actually the same thing on different programs - and require a different sequence of commands.
This is an improvement on my original timetable which had me teaching in a room without any computers at all.
Michael (Year 9) mentioned to me that one of the characters in the Lord of the Rings is called 'Shagrat'. 'Is that a name or an instruction?' he enquired innocently.
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Tuesday 8th March
Then there are the windows. It was a warm enough day for March. I wanted to open the windows in the computer room. The windows are kept permanently closed and there are blinds down all the time. I eventually managed to get one of the blinds up by dint of tying the string to the leg of a table. Then I opened one of the metal-framed sash windows.
Fortunately I had sufficient reflexes left in these aging synapses to let me remove my hand before the thing came crashing down like a guillotine. The class cheered as I jumped back, the blind string came away from the desk and the blind came crashing down. I nearly sat on a ninth year which serves him right for laughing.
There wasn't much on the television this evening - except cat vomit. Still, I suppose anything is better than Wogan.
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Wednesday 9th March
This afternoon we had an Inservice Training session on Drama - three hours of being a tree. This is better than working for a living. Naturally the poor sods who had to cover for us were less sanguine about it.
Victor is back! James has finally got around to recharging old Vic's batteries and he was buzzing away happily. So long, so hard, so Taiwanese.
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Thursday 10th March
A phonecall to the alleged computer repairers brought news about Archie the truant Archimedes. They are short of parts and as soon as they get the parts they will repair the computer. When I asked which parts, he explained that he was only the man who answered the phone
I sat on the edge of the bed, wearing a black blouse, black skirt (if you can call it a skirt, more a waistband) and black stockings and facing a mirror. James sat on the bed behind me and slowly removed my clothes.
He didn't use any Algipan this time so I didn't need to use a glass of water afterwards.
----
Started reading Chapter House Dune , I cannot decide whether Frank Herbert is a sexist or not - I suspect that is exactly the impression he wanted to create. If this were made into a film it would certainly rival one of James' videos. In fact, since it contains the dread word p***s, it would undoubtedly have that part of Miles Teg snipped off!
James did the shopping.
----
Sunday 6th March
We visited Wakehurst Park. The Skoda very nearly didn't make it and my enjoyment of the delights of nature was marred by anxiety about our ability to get home. This apprehension was justified because on the way home we did indeed break down and have to call out the AA.
Even so, I think we ought to visit Wakehurst more because it is free to life-members of the National Trust. I well remember the looks of disbelief on the faces of my friends at college when I announced that I had joined the National Trust. I went on to explain that I thought they were doing something to preserve our heritage and wildlife etc. and the looks of disbelief turned to looks of astonishment.
When I eventually demanded to know what they had against the National Trust, they told me that I had evidently used the work "Front" instead of "Trust."
The man from the AA was a surly bastard - not at all like the very nice man on the TV.
----
Monday 7th March
Information Technology is driving me barmy. It isn't so much that we have not got enough computers. It is just that they were all bought at different times, so they don't all run the same programs. At any one time my pupils are working on three different wordprocessors and asking me how to "justify the right margin", "justify both margins" or "switch on justification." which sound like different things but are actually the same thing on different programs - and require a different sequence of commands.
This is an improvement on my original timetable which had me teaching in a room without any computers at all.
Michael (Year 9) mentioned to me that one of the characters in the Lord of the Rings is called 'Shagrat'. 'Is that a name or an instruction?' he enquired innocently.
----
Tuesday 8th March
Then there are the windows. It was a warm enough day for March. I wanted to open the windows in the computer room. The windows are kept permanently closed and there are blinds down all the time. I eventually managed to get one of the blinds up by dint of tying the string to the leg of a table. Then I opened one of the metal-framed sash windows.
Fortunately I had sufficient reflexes left in these aging synapses to let me remove my hand before the thing came crashing down like a guillotine. The class cheered as I jumped back, the blind string came away from the desk and the blind came crashing down. I nearly sat on a ninth year which serves him right for laughing.
There wasn't much on the television this evening - except cat vomit. Still, I suppose anything is better than Wogan.
----
Wednesday 9th March
This afternoon we had an Inservice Training session on Drama - three hours of being a tree. This is better than working for a living. Naturally the poor sods who had to cover for us were less sanguine about it.
Victor is back! James has finally got around to recharging old Vic's batteries and he was buzzing away happily. So long, so hard, so Taiwanese.
----
Thursday 10th March
A phonecall to the alleged computer repairers brought news about Archie the truant Archimedes. They are short of parts and as soon as they get the parts they will repair the computer. When I asked which parts, he explained that he was only the man who answered the phone
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