R's rue

  I have little to talk about today. Thanks why I’ve posted Madge & Bisket, who are on good form I’m on my break and it’s almost three in the morning The last word I uttered was iawn ?  Which is the Welsh word for ok  It was in question form and my patient nodded  Iawn is pronounced similarly to down with emphasis on following the W  My Welsh has improved over the last couple of years I can watch the welsh tv soap Opera Poble y Cwm  without English subtitles and more or less understand what is going on . Hundreds of Trees were felled here in North Wales last night in the storm Particularly badly hit was Happy Valley in Llandudno Just across the town from the hospice from Going Gently https://ift.tt/30ZvfoB

That once was me It was hidden from public view. Most of it happened rather secretly in my own time - at night, over weekends, in holidays, in the early morning, during lunchtimes. It never seemed to end. No matter how hard I worked at it there was always more to do. I devoted countless hours of my life to it . Perhaps a little conservatively, I estimate three hundred hours a year - the equivalent of seven full weeks. What am I talking about? Marking. Marking was the bane of my life and as an English teacher - later Head of English - I had a lot of it to do. It never enriched me personally one iota.  It was always for somebody else. I would sit there with my red pen reading reams and reams of writing from adolescents - helpfully pointing out grammar and spelling errors, making helpful suggestions while providing praise and encouragement wherever possible. It was something quite unfamiliar to P.E., Maths and Art teachers for example and not really part of their weekly routine...

 Saturday happies Put up the Christmas tree Made Christmas cards Had apple pie from R's rue https://ift.tt/3nXy8Pp