As you can see dear reader, I have decided to just use the date as the heading. With any blog, you attract an awful lot of spam, and although I have a very good spam blocker set up, the old inbox get rather full of the notifications. Apparently, some of the spambots are attracted by the titles, so this should stop it to a certain extent. We shall see. It also means I can avoid having to make up amusing puns. So as Thursdays go, It was a pretty good one. Speaking to youngest on our walk, we were musing over Thursdays. She has a good timetable on a Thursday, and I told her that for some reason, Thursday were always good for me as well through all of my school years. I have always loved Thursdays, it seems to be the day when nice things happen. This is of course all nonsense, but I still enjoy the feeling of waking up on a Thursday. I spent the day doing artwork for some forthcoming productions, and was quite pleased with the results. It is though, always a shame, when you have to work to deadlines rather than relax your way through the creative process. The deadlines was really my fault, as I have prevaricated on it for so long, so maybe I just need to admit I am not very good at time management. Mrs Plug is ploughing on through her training at the moment, and seems to be thriving to me. I hope that she gets a decent post at the end of all of this, she will be fantastic. She seems to be able to empathise and inspire in equal measure, and if any of us remember a teacher fondly, it tends to be for those reasons. We are both concerned however that teaching is being turned into a box ticking exercise. That makes my job even more exciting when I think about it. I do not have to abide by the strictures of an educational establishment, local authority or government department. It is just me, the kids and their parents. I traveled down to Luton on the train this week, and bumped into one of the parents on the platform. We chatted about his daughter and the way the group was developing, and he said such lovely things about why she liked the group and what she got out of it. I got off that train with a little spring in my step.
Rehearsals in the evening were good. I think, apart from about three "Bogey lines" I am now ok, and can really get my teeth into it. Now I am at that stage, I have allowed my mind to wander towards the thought of the actual festival. Apparently, the group that win every year are not in it this year, and there are not that many entries. This makes it even ore exciting than usual. I truly hope that we are all in with a shout of getting something. My company has won something fro three years running, so I hope that we can continue that trend!
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