Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Back to Work
Went back to work on Monday after the Christmas and New Year break. As usual, the feeling of well-being engendered by two and a half weeks of rest and relaxation lasted several minutes once I was back in school again. Oh well; only five weeks to half-term and then only another four to Easter... I'm off to Barcelona for five days with twenty two pupils on February 3rd, so that's something to look forward to. We were busy planning the itinerary today, hoping that Barcelona's game against Atletico Madrid gets switched to the Saturday for the TV so we can go to the Camp Nou-we won't know until a couple of days before we leave. I've also started to plan our department's summer trip to Paris; always a great holiday which the kids love.
Everything in our house seems to have decided to malfunction at the same time. The washing machine stopped emptying on Christmas Eve (since mended), then one by one the lights in the kitchen, hall, landing and one of the bedrooms stopped working. It is an old house, one of a row of stone cottages built in around 1880 to house workers in the nearby mill-now rather predictably for this part of the world lavishly restored as loft apartments for Manchester commuters-but the wiring isn't that old, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm not exactly typing this by candlelight, but it's a bit gloomy.
I almost forgot to mention, although it may be obvious, this page is now a full-blown blog, which means I can update it much more easily as I don't need to be near my home computer to add new content. I can even email new content from my mobile! As promised, I have moved Adriana's latest news onto the same format, for the same reasons.
Other updates to the site include the latest ferry timetables (until the end of February), some new wallpaper courtesy of Ian Woolway and plenty of photos of Epiphany on Symi on the 'Out & About' page.
That's about it, I think.
Hope you are all well,
Mikey x
Everything in our house seems to have decided to malfunction at the same time. The washing machine stopped emptying on Christmas Eve (since mended), then one by one the lights in the kitchen, hall, landing and one of the bedrooms stopped working. It is an old house, one of a row of stone cottages built in around 1880 to house workers in the nearby mill-now rather predictably for this part of the world lavishly restored as loft apartments for Manchester commuters-but the wiring isn't that old, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm not exactly typing this by candlelight, but it's a bit gloomy.
I almost forgot to mention, although it may be obvious, this page is now a full-blown blog, which means I can update it much more easily as I don't need to be near my home computer to add new content. I can even email new content from my mobile! As promised, I have moved Adriana's latest news onto the same format, for the same reasons.
Other updates to the site include the latest ferry timetables (until the end of February), some new wallpaper courtesy of Ian Woolway and plenty of photos of Epiphany on Symi on the 'Out & About' page.
That's about it, I think.
Hope you are all well,
Mikey x
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Early evening, New Year's Eve
I owe an apology to regular readers, since updates on here have been patchy to say the least over the last couple of months. Since I last wrote a report, I've been to Bruges on school trip which was fantastic-just great kids and everything was so easy..
As usual, sampled the odd gluhwein, did some Christmas shopping and brought back a few cases of Leffe. Only downside was ferry and motorway delays on the way back, which meant a three hour delay coming home.
Twenty four years of teaching and I've had a grand total of two days off sick; not that I'm boasting or anything, just lucky. Normally if I get a cold it lasts a day or two. But over the last two weeks of the Christmas term I picked up a humdinger of a virus which almost knocked me out; I did feel bad enough at one stage that I should have had a couple of days off, just the situation at work meant I really couldn't. I even stopped training for a week; didn't go to the gym or out running at all, so I must have been ill. It's only been the past few days that I've been able to go out and do some hard runs, push myself and feel OK.
Enough of me-here's what's new!
Hugo Tyler is writing an occasional series of his musings from Pacho's cafeneon for us; I've put them up on Blogger.com which makes it a lot easier for me to update them from wherever I am in the world, via email if necessary. I'll move Adriana's latest news over as well in the next few weeks.
The Rhodes to Symi winter timetables are updated until the end of February and I've put 2005's Greek holiday dates up as well. There's a new holiday property to let on our accommodation pages: The Hellenikon Wine Apartment.
Well that's it; I'm not going to burden you with my New Year's resolutions, just going to wish you a happy, peaceful and healthy 2005.
As usual, sampled the odd gluhwein, did some Christmas shopping and brought back a few cases of Leffe. Only downside was ferry and motorway delays on the way back, which meant a three hour delay coming home.
Twenty four years of teaching and I've had a grand total of two days off sick; not that I'm boasting or anything, just lucky. Normally if I get a cold it lasts a day or two. But over the last two weeks of the Christmas term I picked up a humdinger of a virus which almost knocked me out; I did feel bad enough at one stage that I should have had a couple of days off, just the situation at work meant I really couldn't. I even stopped training for a week; didn't go to the gym or out running at all, so I must have been ill. It's only been the past few days that I've been able to go out and do some hard runs, push myself and feel OK.
Enough of me-here's what's new!
Hugo Tyler is writing an occasional series of his musings from Pacho's cafeneon for us; I've put them up on Blogger.com which makes it a lot easier for me to update them from wherever I am in the world, via email if necessary. I'll move Adriana's latest news over as well in the next few weeks.
The Rhodes to Symi winter timetables are updated until the end of February and I've put 2005's Greek holiday dates up as well. There's a new holiday property to let on our accommodation pages: The Hellenikon Wine Apartment.
Well that's it; I'm not going to burden you with my New Year's resolutions, just going to wish you a happy, peaceful and healthy 2005.
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