Yesterday at school we had a Bollywood dancer who came to give us master classes. It was such fun and it made me realise how fit you need to be to do some of the routines. What was good was watching some of the boys who normally would never do any dancing who were participating and having fun.
Todays visitor was The Ned Show another really good afternoon was had by all. The presenter was Joe from New York who did tricks with a Yo yo and magic tricks whilst putting over the message of Never give up, Encourage other & Do your best.

Romney Marsh Churches

One sunny afternoon OH said 'let's go out somewhere as it is such a lovely day'. So as we went down the winding lanes of Kent I wondered where he was taking me to. It was a surprise when we stopped at the first church!
He has a plan to do a set of watercolurs for an art exhibition at Christmas and he thought the theme of Marsh Church would be a good idea! Not sure myself but I'll wait until I see the finished art works before making up my mind.
I have to say it was an interesting afternoon and I learnt a lot about the area I didn't know before. Here are just a few of the photo's we took.

Up , up and away

Work and family seem to take up all my time and I haven't had much to say lately. Today Heliwise arrived at our school and gave us all a big smile on our faces. If you work at a school it is an excellent idea for fundraising and learning.

Often helicopters will fly overhead when the children are out on the playground or on the field as we live near the coast and army barracks. Always they get excited and wave or shout out to their friends 'a helicopter look'.

So you can image the thrill they had when one circled overhead they took an aerial shot of us standing in a smiley face shape and then landed right next to us. Our head teacher jumped out of ours today. A special treat arranged for his retirement at the end of term. The children clapped, cheered and jumped up and down.

The pilot and co-pilot gave us an interesting and funny talk where we learnt lots of interesting thing such as how to steer, how high up they can go and that Lewis Hamilton flew in it at the weekend!

Finally each class went up and had a photo taken in front of it which will then be made into a booklet for parents to buy.

Sadly the time went so quickly and it was time for it to fly away of to the next school. I wanted to go with them but was told I had to get on an do some work. Hurray for the outside classroom it can be such fun.

Kids today!

I haven't been watching the programme Britain's got Talent. Sometimes I felt like I was the only who wasn't when I was at work. It has been one of the main topics of conversation for weeks in the staff room.
I have however seen the press comments on Susan Boyle and can understand everybodys surprise when she started to sing.
So last night I tuned in to see what the fuss was about. When we hear about young people in the news it is usually about binge drinking, carrying knives or other negative things. Diversity showed us 11 young people who are doing something positive with their spare time and they are amazing and worthy winners.
But then again Stavros Flatley made me laugh and what an advert for a great father and son relationship. The singers were all brilliant and Julian Smith playing the saxophone really deserves to be success in the future.
I hope it inspires other people to have ago. At school I give up my lunch break sometimes to groups of Year 6 who want to use the hall to practice routines and need an adult to supervise. I have always done it willing when the have asked me but in future I will be looking for next years big talent. Move over Simon!





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The Sun has got his Hat on.

Today the was out and I just couldn't settle to do one thing in particular.

I started off by relaxing and for all of 10 minutes. I soon got bored reading about the MP's excuses for purchasing duck houses and whatever. So next I tried a little But I was restless and so I thought I should get some of the plants in that I bought weeks ago as the poor things won't if I don't get them in soon. Finally I decided I had better and catch up with all the lovely blogs I read.

Make sure the sound is on when you watch this.



I know I shouldn't have laughed when I saw this but I couldn't help it. I used to live near someone who had one of these.

A Better Week

I seem to be miserable in all my blogging just lately so here are some of the things that cheered me up this last week.

1. We made our usual trip to the Annual Plant Fair at the White Cliffs Experience. The sun was shining and we sat afterwards and sipped a coffee over looking the sea. I came home with loads of plants at a fraction of the price it would cost at the garden centre
2. My boy was home all last week from uni and we had such a lovely time with him and on Friday the four of us went out for a meal at our favourite Indian restaurant.
3. Work wasn't as bad as I expected and the new Head seems OK, so far.
4. The meeting I went to at The Academy on Friday wasn't as scary as I expected it to be.
5. I finished the book I have been trying to read for weeks.
6. Did I mention the sun shone?

Hope yours was as good. x

Shock!

I am just watching the BBC programme Countryfile as I do every week and am speechless ( I know it's hard to believe) on the article on 'Zero Grazing'. I had no idea that cows are being kept inside all the time, never ever walking on the grass or laying down in a field.

It is important that I always buy free range eggs and I don't eat meat I am a vegetarian but not vegan and I do however like milk, cheese, cream etc. I do not want this to come from a cow who has been kept inside all it's life and the furthest it has walked is a few yards from its stall to a milking machine. Can I tell when I buy these products from the supermarket I wonder?

I hope Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley Wittenstall or some other crusader will start up a campaign.