This is my one hundreth post!To bring us up to date, here's what's been happening.This girl got made redundant.Another agency got me a decent amount of work in this PRU teaching art.I can't tell you how it feels to walk into a classroom as a kid walks out saying, "I don't fucking want you to teach me. Fuck off. Where's our proper teacher?", and for that same kid, to have written a poem by the end o...

So, it's five years since the start of the war in Iraq and the Turin shroud might NOT be a fake. I remember twenty years ago watching the programme that used carbon dating to 'prove' the shroud was a medieval hoax (those medieval pranksters and their smart-ass production of the first photographic image!). I added this revelation to my burgeoning list of "Things which confirm my suspicions that Cath...

Well, February the 29th came and went and i couldn't think of anyone i would like to propose to.Not anyone i have actually met, anyway.If i had happened to bump into Toby Kebbell, i might have asked him. Such a talented actor and so HOT! As the manager of Joy Division, he was the most convincingly 'Northern' character in Anton Corbijn's film Control. He was hilariously northern in fact, which was a...

So, i've got a couple of hours a week at my Big Break Job. To make this viable i am also doing supply in education.Yesterday i got assigned another Pupil Referral Unit. One of the kids started off the day by systematically working his way along a row of windows and ripping the handle mechanism backwards until it cracked. By 10.30 he was going ballistic and was in the cooling off room. They asked me...

Recently, i have strongly felt the presence of my future love.I have seen the tiny hotel that we will stay in one weekend in my favourite area of Yorkshire.Some weeks ago i truly experienced the absolute certainty of how it feels to be held and to know that this person will be with you always.Yesterday as i turned around, i was convinced that he would be standing right behind me.And today at the Tu...