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Envy, envy, envy!

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

My sister has just bought herself a Corvette, (I thought it was men who were supposed to get a mid-life crisis!) yesterday she let me drive it.

Trouble is, now I want one……  wonder if Santa could get one down the chimney at Christmas!

Back to School

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Spent this morning at Jake’s school this morning. They were having a “Bring a Grown-up to School” day.

Bit of a change from my day, I left school in 1979, and we had blackboards and chalk, and the ‘computer’ was a teletype machine in a room under the stairs connected to a mainframe in the local college. The Deputy Head flounced around the school in the traditional black gown and you had to stand up when a member of staff entered the room.

Now they have ‘interactive whiteboards”, basically a laptop attached to a projector which displays the image onto a whiteboard. There is also a scanner with which the teacher can scan pupils work and display it on the screen for the rest of the class to see.

I now feel very, very old!

Beardy Wierdy

Friday, May 19th, 2006

As a part of the ‘life changes’ (some would call it a mid-life crisis!) I’m going through at the moment, I have grown a beard. My sister saw it for the first time yesterday and said that it suited me.

When I told Debby she said that it hid my double chin…………………………. thanks dear!