Today I've been...

Thanks for the good wishes last night folks. i stayed dry eyed we went to an old fashioned pub and had delicious white bread sandwiches and I got a gift. Anyone want gift details please pm. Oh and the speech went fine. Nice to go out on a high - Good in oftsted last summer (first time in over 40 yrs) best results ever every year for last 5 and should be no longer classed as poor this year , attendance now around national average!! (set a mean target last year - 2% improvement and they did it) and stable management team that have all grown into their jobs. Quit while you're ahead , I thought.
Gally - its best to keep going the first day. So much easier when you get there than when you come back i find. I know what you mean about HK it is about a mile long if not more. Great if you want a brisk walk and have an hour to spare. When is your daughter's due date.
20deg, we wish. My son in NZ says he is having so far a great winter. Warm enough to sit ouside the cafe and go paddle boarding!

Glad your journey was pretty straight forward. Now get down to enjoying your stay, gally

Well, here I am in sunny Sydney. 20 degrees today despite being told it's winter and most of the locals all 'rugged-up' and booted! Lovely to see the gc's after a year. Only been here for 15 hours and have already been to the midwife with D2 and done a food shop. The journey was good apart from having to do a 25 minute dash from one end of the airport in Hong Kong to the other to get my connection, and I managed to sleep for 7 hours once I arrived here, so with any luck I am into Oz time already. Strange old world - you get into a tin can, take off into space and arrive on the other side of the world in less than 22 hours

Today was ridiculously quiet at our CAB while last Thursday was quite the reverse. Such a shame to be hanging around waiting for drop-in clients when it was one of the very few dry days we've had.
Last night our NWR had our annual visit to the outdoor theatre at Gawsworth Hall, this time, to see The Rivals. Amazingly the sky cleared, there wasn't a cloud in the sky and we were able to have our picnic before the performance although it was quite cold and we weren't exactly dressed for summer. The production was good, very funny and well paced; and we thoroughly enjoyed it - as usual.

Congratulations to you Jess and proud you will not be a slave to Gove

Hope the evening went well for you Jess. Bet you made a great speech! Well done.

Hope they were nice to you, Jess. Ten years is a very good stint. Well done to you. - though I hope they'll also give you some!

oh well done jess the school will have appreciated your support and hard work

Well done for the ten years, jess, and good luck for tonight.

Good luck, Jess!

I'm sure it will go well Jess and this is just another chapter of your life beginning. xx

Just off to do my last Full Governing Body meeting before stepping down. School becomes an academy in September. Ten years is long enough. Need to make a speech I guess. May cry though.

doesn't keep spirits up. It's wine. Spirits are things like VODKA, gin!

Today I have been cursing the large temporary filling put in yesterday which proved to be true to its description and promptly fell out 24 hours after being put in! Live 45 miles away from my dentist and permanent solution not ready until 2 weeks time!

Dentist says to buy emergency filler from Boots (diy dentistry I presume!), must hunt some down tomorrow. In the meantime will pour some more to keep spirits up

It smelt very green soop Just like asparagus, in fact.

Ariadne cautiously happy for you

Golden what a star she is

soop it must be wonderful to have a trio of sons

Err...it's not for me, it's for my friend....honest!

Why? Anagram? Do you need a pregnancy test?

Oh! Is that what we were talking about...?
Forget I spoke!

I remember when we used to use frogs or mice for that!
Never did it by just looking or tasting though?

Don't they test wee to see if you're pregnant any more, then?

Was the pee green, Elegran?

The first time I ate asparagus I thought I must have a bladder infection.