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it's 2.15 am. lisa's asleep, roxy the dog is asleep. I however am still writing my pesky essay. ihave 2,500 words but still need to write another section so I may have to cut back. still it's all quite peaceful- a glass of wine, some tortilla chips and dip and some sigur ros in the background. could be worse.

this term is history

not long til stevemas day now, i mean christmas day. sorry sometimes i forget who everyone is making the fuss over, and i seem to have just about made it to the end of term. of course i still have my essay to do but at least all the lessons are out of the way. i've actually learnt a whole lot of history myself this term. strange having to teach a topic one day that you have only learnt about yourself the night before. it's kind of good because i'm still interested in it myself when i'm passing it on to the kids, for example over the last couple of weeks i've taught about welsh pirates, how to attack a medieval castle, the american frontier and how america could have been named after a welshman rather than that italian guy (amerigo vespucci).

lisa and i have also decided it was time to step out of the country again so looked for which flights looked the cheapest and most interesting.we found out that apparently you can go all the way to the latvian capital Riga for about £30 return which is amazing really seeing as its just about in russia. so off we are going for a few days in january.

(just thought i'd make the post a bit christmasy)

the difficult 14th blog post

i notice some of us are slowing down in our frequency of blog posts so i thought i would throw another tuppence worth in. actually i should be doing my pgce essay but obviusly have been putting it off all day. watched two very good dvd's though- the station agent and motorcycle diaries. but i might still get this essay done. a mere 2500 words which isn't too bad. at least it's near the end of term.

just as a christmas notice i wanted to invite all and sundry to the 3rd annual christmas eve coffee at soloman grundy's in withington. 10.30 am we were thinking. it's not really so much a birthday thing more just a get together. so there you are hope you can make it. unless of course you are some random psycho reading this. well hey why not come along aswell. the more the merrier.