A motley collection of things I wanted to write about #3

Here are a few random moments that I wanted to write about over the past week or so:

• Do you know what?  When  I read old-fashioned school books, it always really annoys me when the characters in the story say that they mustn't 'sneak' on some miscreant that does wrong.  I still HATE the 'Snitch' idea which children still say at school to someone who has told on them.  Obviously, it's a annoying when someone says, "He's saying or doing x, y, z" which is not serious but when it is really important- well, it needs to be told!
• How out of date can you eat Creme Fraiche?  I ate about half a tub of it tonight on my pasta which expired on the 19th June.  It tasted fine. CBC wouldn't try it despite my encouragement that it tasted fine.  What's the worst that might happen to me?
• Yay, I had my Performance Management teaching observation today with my Headteacher and he originally told me he would only stay 20minutes and ended up staying for a whole hour!  Later, when I went to get feedback, he said, "I was blown away by your lesson" and proceeded to say THE nicest complimentary things to me for about 15 minutes. He said he stayed for an hour because he was enjoying it and didn't want to leave.  He learnt to play Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra with us and said he thinks he should spend more time in music when he is stressed! SO nice to be appreciated!
• I wore my Kimchi and Coconut skunk brooch today and it reminded me of the most adorable video I saw once on Youtube of a family of Skunks meeting a cyclist! HOOOOOOOW cute are they!??!!
• After watching that, I somehow got sucked into the world of Youtube and ended up watching various Skunk videos! They are so cute!!! I am surprised HOW many skunk videos there are!
• Going to see my Dad, Step-Mum and Step-sis this weekend. It's only been two weeks since I last saw them so I am pretty excited to see them again so soon!!!
• MY RUNNER BEANS?   Because we were away at Music Camp this last weekend from Friday Morning to Sunday evening, the garden wasn't watered for all that time and my French beans died as did a courgette.  The other courgette sort of leapt out of the ground too! I have replanted it but it is so sad!!! All the other plants are looking sad too except the strawberries!
• Having a GREAT bumper crop of strawberries from the garden! Am greatly enjoying eating ALLL the strawberries!
• Am grateful I made double the amount of Pasta last night so all we had to do was heat it up tonight (plus frozen garlic bread left over from our housewarming!).  Made a difference than the usual games of brinkmanship about who is going to cook!
• Have been surviving the cycling. All the practice I am getting daily is really improving my balance!
• So happy about two of my school pupils.  One said she was giving up the flute (despite being really good!) I was totally sad about this and had a lovely surprise yesterday discovering that she was reconsidering and was going to carry on. Another of my best musicians said she couldn't play in the Summer concert because her swimming coach wouldn't let her miss a session and now suddenly, having asked him, she's been given permission to play!
• I taught Years 3-4 a fun Balinese song I learnt called Meong Meong (Cat, Cat) today and they really seemed to like it. I caught some of them humming it in class later. Found this incredibly cheesy video version of it on Youtube to play them! I challenge you not to be humming it all day!
• I own a Bernie Dexter dress! I am so happy!
• Can't wait for the Summer holidays!  Am definitely very tired!
• Are there any things you are irrationally scared of? One of mine is getting a fish bone caught in my throat. I added a little tin of anchovies to last night's dinner and one got stuck in my throat and I was super worried! Also feel like that about Splinters! They always fill me with dread and CBC will NEVER help me get them out and I have a mild panic and end up gouging all the skin off my finger in order to get it out!
• Ahrgh, a new Costa has opened near my school and various staff are going down there for lunch or coffee. I just don't get it.  The food is not very nice and very overpriced.  We have other things close. Can't understand it!
• I love Home Sense/TK Maxx. Always find lovely things in there cheap! Got some nice pressie yesterday!
• One of my Year 6 kids lent me First Class Murder, the Murder Most Unladylike book I hadn't read! It was so much fun!
• On that note, I enjoyed playing Poirot at school yesterday managing to figure out something from a cryptic comment my colleague made!
• Another brilliant book I read at the weekend was 'The Woman in Cabin 10' which I read over the weekend! A modern whodunnit!
• The weekend was lovely playing Mozart's opera, Il Domineo at my music camping place. Nice company and the weather was good.  Still didn't sleep particularly well despite my wonderful new roll mat. I think it's sleeping bags I don't like. Oh and the fact I was sitting up till 3.15am on Saturday night waiting for an ambulance with the Bassoon player who fell down some stairs in the dark and injured his back along with others. It took the ambulance 3.5 hours to arrive!  Thank God that it turned out just to be bruising and nothing worse which we all feared when he said he couldn't move!

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A motley collection of random things I wanted to write about. #2

Again, here are a few random moments that I wanted to write about over the past week or so.

AHRGH, CBC is watching Jaws 3!!! He keeps laughing and saying how fake it looks. I have not actually ever seen it before   When I was a little girl, we used to go over to my Dad's house at the weekends.  We would always watch a video, recorded from the TV- the choices were:  The Railway Children, James Bond (various), Around the World in 80 days and he had all 3 Jaws movies.  BUT, he always stipulated that we were only allowed to watch the movies at certain ages, Jaws 1 at a certain age, Jaws 2, then Jaws 3.  I was terrified by them!!  Jaws 3, for me, was the ultimate in scary- if I was only allowed to watch it at a certain age then it must be utterly awful.  I built it up in my head so it achieved an almost mythical scariness.   Somehow, after my Dad remarried, we didn't really watch videos like that so much so I never did see Jaws 3, except for one clip of the people walking through the glass tunnel with Jaws approaching which was the remnant of Jaws 3 which had been taped over for something else.  Seeing a glass tunnel appear on the screen some 10 minutes ago took me back to that anticipatory terror I associated with it in my callow years!

-We visited a really pleasant garden centre today (May bank holiday weekend Sunday) and it was really a lovely place- realised we had actually reached middle age with going to a garden centre on a Bank Holiday weekend- ha!  We bought 2 large Grecian-looking pots to repot the Olive and Fig trees into and a glazed blue one for the mint to live in (plus matching dishes for all three), a large bag of compost for aforementioned pots, climbing bean seeds, a Lemon Balm plant and a present for someone who MIGHT just be reading this post!

- Had a delightful leisurely sojourn along the High Street of the town we originally wanted to move to after going to church there this morning.  There is a very classy (but more expensive) charity shop there which I had the pleasure of browsing very slowly because there was no one else to hurry me up (and no one else in there!) - suddenly, we heard a naval marching band parading down the High Street!
- Oh the church service was LOVELY! It was JUST my type of service with all my favourite songs. Still not sure what to do on the church front.

- Still absolutely sick of engineering works on my line.  EVERY weekend there is no train service but a bus which takes more than double the time the train does and every evening as well after 9:30 meaning that coming home from orchestra takes an AGE! Last week, I missed the last train by 5 minutes, so instead of arriving to my home station at 10:30 which I should have done in normal (well, normal as of 3 months ago) circumstances, I got home at MIDNIGHT! The weekend works have been on since January (and were on before December). When are they going to end?? It makes life, as a non-driver, utterly infuriating!

-Thrift Deluxe wrote about making homemade crisps! I would like to try that!!!

- CBC made me put my Brompton bike up and down about 10 times to learn how to assemble it. Why do I find such things so difficult- I don't seem to have any logic about these things and just do them in a clunky way. I am going to cycle to work tomorrow (well, to the station) for the first time!
- Have survived two days of cycling- oh it is sooooooooo much quicker than walking!!!

- Very much enjoying this wearing dresses with no tights, leggings or cardigans! More please!

- Went a little mad in the Holland and Barrett Penny Sale on Shower gel.  Is 8 bottles too many?