Its been wet so we have been digging a bit. Going to South Africa on Saturday to play with Sharks.
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10th May
Its been raining some more which is good. Not a lot else going on, just going to work and all that stuff. Listening to a lot of Regina Spektor at the moment and watching a lot of Peep Show. It has taken me a while to really get into Peep Show but now I think it is one of my favourite programmes.
Liam has just lent me a Squeeze CD which I am listening to. I had forgotten how brilliant they are. And at the weekend I heard “Ghost Town” by the Specials. Good song. Neither are a patch on Regina though.
Regina Spektor Interview
Peep Show (with swearing)
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Parents should be bothering
I have had a busy day today and I am feeling a bit tired. However, there was something that made it feel much more worthwhile. I did an assessment with a child today at one of the schools I support and afterwards I met the child’s mother. It was actually really good because all she wanted was to understand what she could do to help her child. She also asked very intelligent questions which does tend to make it more interesting – she was good at seeing to the heart of the issues, but the main thing was how interested and keen she was to help.
You may find it surprising that this doesn’t happen to me more often. It does happen quite often but it’s really surprising how many parents don’t seem all that interested. It would be really useful to understand why that is; maybe they are nervous of strange professional people, or maybe there’s something wrong with how we invite parents to come to talk about things or something. I really like it when parents bother me because then I can do my job a lot better, and otherwise I have to try to bother them just a bit, which is not always quite so good.
I suppose another problem might be that they have to work so then they can’t come and talk to me at school. I don’t think that’s true for all parents though. The thing is it makes a lot of difference to their child if they do come as then they know what they can do at home. I suppose some people get that from my reports but I suspect that’s not true for all that many.
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This is a good thing to do
If you click on this button every day then people who wouldn’t be able to have a mammogram get one free. I’m hoping I’ve been clever enough for you to be able to click right here and do it so you don’t even have to go to another website.
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2
Here’s a challenge for you – find some more of these (I think there’s a hungersite and one for free books) and I will put them on too. Then I can click them every day.
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7th May
It rained at last, so we recoated some stuff at the trails. Could do with a lot more rain though.
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4th May
These pictures are scary. They are photographs:
Casitas Geo
Montonde Casitas
Neza(from here).
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2nd May
Well that was April. In terms of riding it was probably the best April I have ever had. Maybe April 2003 was better but probably not.
The only thing worse than riding on your own at the trails is riding with a load of chavs heckling you. That was Monday. Then after they left a couple of people came to the trails and watched and “took their hats off” to all the hard work we have done.
Yesterday I was in London with work and we went to The Comedy Store after. It was pretty funny. Then on the 22:30 train home I saw one of the people that took off their hats to me the day before at the trails, which was a coincidence.
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Really just do what you like doing
I have been thinking about how sometimes it can seem like there seem to be expectations that you should do lots of things. We have quite a lot of friends who are away seeing people or doing things really most weekends or maybe every weekend. I think this is ok if that is what you like. I don’t really.
What I like doing is having a bath and reading a book and seeing Ben and walking in the woods and thinking and doing music. I also like swimming. So I think people might think I am very boring. I don’t care because I like it and that, I think, is all that matters.
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28th April
The other night a strange thing happened. We were merrily digging away at the trails when two groups of people turned up at the same time. One pulled up in a truck with BMX’s in the back and proceeded to push their way through the fence. The others looked like pikeys and made me reach for my wallet. The latter group came up to me and started asking about the trails – did we have permission, how did we get it, etc etc. They weren’t pikeys and they were really freindly. They had made the effort of parking up the road, so as to not draw attention to the trails and they couldn’t believe we had dug it all by hand. (They rode motorcross and have been digging a track for that). This was a nice suprise.
While I was talking to these chaps, the BMXers started walking around the trails and having a look at stuff. They didn’t speak to me or even acknowledge my presence. Then they pushed back through the fence to get to their truck and started to take out their bikes. I was pretty suprised by their rudeness. Then, even more strangely, they all got in the truck and drove off. Strange days.
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