Eclipse of the Moon

Like many other people, last night we watched the eclipse of the moon. Not continually ... unlike some lucky people, who could see the moon from the warmth of their living room out the window, we had to go outside to see the changing state of the moon, so we went out from time to time to see how it was getting on. I took a few photos ... unfortunately I forgot we had a tripod, and when I remembered, it seemed to much hassle to put it all up just before going to bed! So the photos are very blurry, and the moon, of course, was very far away ... I'm just downloading them just now, and it looks like I've taken loads of tiny pinpricks of light on a black rectangle! They are all very similar. Ah well!




It was a nice day yesterday. I got my new glasses, and had no problems exchanging my trousers. In the afternoon I went through some admin I had to do ... data, statistics, that sort of stuff ... and in the evening we read a bit.

This morning I had a nice walk to church, and we had coffee and cakes afterwards, which is always nice. H bought cream cakes yesterday which we had this afternoon - delicious! It's ages since I've had a cream cake. Today has also been productive - H has been writing and editing, and I've inputted all the data from my questionnaires onto an Excel spreadsheet, so I can begin analysing the findings. Still have some lessons to plan, though.

And we had stovies (and salmon) for lunch!

Burns' Night

And 100th post!

Happy Burns' Night, everyone!

I recited "To a Louse" to the first two Sixth Formers that arrived at my AS lesson ... I think they quite enjoyed it, although didn't really understand it, and at the end, one commented, "Some of the words sound a bit like English, but the rest ... Scottish is a different language, isn't it?" or words to that effect.

H was greeted with a bit of "To a Haggis" before and after I served the haggis ...

The haggis, neeps and ... stovies (H is not too keen on mashed tatties!) were delicious! And H ate most of his lamb chops, but left some of his veg ... haggis and neeps are not his favourites, either! However, I think he's quite enjoying his crannachan - I did!


Other than that, the day has been not too bad, other than not having any lunch because I had a lunchtime meeting with a parent (a successful one, I'm pleased to say), and then I had a couple of unexpected but important and useful meetings at the end of the day. Lessons were okay for a change today! Mostly went fairly smoothly ...

Getting on with the marking ...

I slept in again ... today I have marked four sets of books, thought some more about my dissertation, learnt that we used to live in one of the worst areas to live and now live in an area that was even nearer the top of the bad areas to live in the UK!, made some more delicious stovies, and have begun to read "The Puzzle of Ethics" which I think will be much more accessible for my A-Level students than the book I've been using at the moment.

Funnily, I don't feel that I've done school work all day today, but since I've been doing that since dinner, I can't really remember what else I've done! Humdrum stuff anyway, like washing the shower curtain. We're going out tomorrow though!