Have applied for another 2 jobs today. I visited both schools and really liked both of them. One is only 10 minutes from home, which would be ideal, and I know someone else who is already working there, which would be really great. It is so depressing spending almost half a day per application working on the personal statement to support it, only to hear nothing. I can't help feeling that it would not hurt the schools to write a simple "thanks, but not this time" letter to people who apply, just to confirm that you can stop hoping for an interview.
On top of this I have caught a cold from one of the horrible little children where I did supply last week. Well, okay, I don't know where I actually caught it from, and standing for 4 hours in the freezing cold watching the carnival on Saturday night probably didn't help, but I am now stuck at home with a cold (yes, okay, I'm not going to die of a cold) and with the kids who are getting increasingly excited because Christmas is getting near.
Have a nice weekend now!
Friday, November 10, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
Oh no, don't stop the carnival...
Bridgwater Carnival is the best carnival I have ever seen. I went this year for the 5th time and I never get bored of it. We were in two minds whether to go this year as last year was a bit of a disaster.
We went in our campervan (not a big posh one - just a 27 year old Toyota HiAce) and Big J who was not as big then as he is now decided to keep us up all night because he did not fancy going to sleep, but preferred to jump around the van pulling at the curtains and playing with the cupboards and the switches. Since then, we have not dared to go away anywhere in the van to stay overnight.
However, since our trip to Devon, we discovered that Big J will sleep if he is snuggled up next to me and that it also helps to get him really tired by taking him for a long walk or a run around. You are probably thinking, "How has Little Z got to the age of 7 without LLS knowing these things?" Well, Little Z was actually quite an easy baby. She slept anytime anywhere, so I never had to consider ways of making her tired etc.
So, we decided to give it a try on the understanding that if Big J would not sleep, we would just drive home (it's only a couple of hours away).
Rather than me posting my pictures here, (they are not that great as the floats are so big, it is difficult to take good pics of them from the side of the road) click here and here to see some of the floats from last year.
The carnival lasted a good couple of hours and although we had to stand around and wait for about an hour before the floats got to us, it was worth the wait. It finished at about 10pm, so by that time of night it was getting pretty cold, but some of the floats are decorated with so many light bulbs that the heat from them can be felt as they go past which did help to warm us up a bit.
The long walk back to the van from the place where we had watched the carnival was enough to tire Big J out completely. As soon as we got to the van, he slept. Aww bless.
We went in our campervan (not a big posh one - just a 27 year old Toyota HiAce) and Big J who was not as big then as he is now decided to keep us up all night because he did not fancy going to sleep, but preferred to jump around the van pulling at the curtains and playing with the cupboards and the switches. Since then, we have not dared to go away anywhere in the van to stay overnight.
However, since our trip to Devon, we discovered that Big J will sleep if he is snuggled up next to me and that it also helps to get him really tired by taking him for a long walk or a run around. You are probably thinking, "How has Little Z got to the age of 7 without LLS knowing these things?" Well, Little Z was actually quite an easy baby. She slept anytime anywhere, so I never had to consider ways of making her tired etc.
So, we decided to give it a try on the understanding that if Big J would not sleep, we would just drive home (it's only a couple of hours away).
Rather than me posting my pictures here, (they are not that great as the floats are so big, it is difficult to take good pics of them from the side of the road) click here and here to see some of the floats from last year.
The carnival lasted a good couple of hours and although we had to stand around and wait for about an hour before the floats got to us, it was worth the wait. It finished at about 10pm, so by that time of night it was getting pretty cold, but some of the floats are decorated with so many light bulbs that the heat from them can be felt as they go past which did help to warm us up a bit.
The long walk back to the van from the place where we had watched the carnival was enough to tire Big J out completely. As soon as we got to the van, he slept. Aww bless.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Apple Bobbing
Until this Halloween, I had completely forgotten how great Apple Bobbing is. This year little Z has been very excited about Halloween and has been asking to play various games she has heard about from the TV or from her friends at school. Every day she has asked if I can buy some apples for us to play Apple Bobbing, so while picking up a few bits of shopping from Tesco, I also picked up some apples.
After dinner, I filled a bowl with water and put 4 apples in. That was the first big mistake. Big J and water do not mix. I showed little Z how to try to get an apple using your mouth without biting it and explained that it is actually quite difficult. She said she could do it easily (everything is easy when you are 7!)and then she tried. PP and I also tried but did not manage to get an apple. I am sure it was not that difficult when I was a child. We kept trying and got wetter and wetter. Big J laughed as we kept dunking our faces into the water. Every now and then he would put his hands in, take an apple, bite it and put it back. Lovely child. He then found a better game: "Lets see how hard I can throw the apples into the water to make the biggest splash." Then his game progressed to,"lie down with my arms in the water, then throw my arms up into the air". This game would have been more suitable had he been in a bathtub, but we were actually in the living room and although I could not do anything to stop him as I was immobilised with laughing so much (which just encouraged him to do it more!)the floor was actually getting very wet as were all the toys etc which were lying around on the floor. It took a lot of towels & a mop & bucket to clean it up, but I can honestly say I have not laughed so much for a very long time. Thank goodness for Parquet Flooring!
After dinner, I filled a bowl with water and put 4 apples in. That was the first big mistake. Big J and water do not mix. I showed little Z how to try to get an apple using your mouth without biting it and explained that it is actually quite difficult. She said she could do it easily (everything is easy when you are 7!)and then she tried. PP and I also tried but did not manage to get an apple. I am sure it was not that difficult when I was a child. We kept trying and got wetter and wetter. Big J laughed as we kept dunking our faces into the water. Every now and then he would put his hands in, take an apple, bite it and put it back. Lovely child. He then found a better game: "Lets see how hard I can throw the apples into the water to make the biggest splash." Then his game progressed to,"lie down with my arms in the water, then throw my arms up into the air". This game would have been more suitable had he been in a bathtub, but we were actually in the living room and although I could not do anything to stop him as I was immobilised with laughing so much (which just encouraged him to do it more!)the floor was actually getting very wet as were all the toys etc which were lying around on the floor. It took a lot of towels & a mop & bucket to clean it up, but I can honestly say I have not laughed so much for a very long time. Thank goodness for Parquet Flooring!
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