Wednesday

Good morning, everyone.  It's a cool, very dull start to the day (no complaints) and I'm umming and ahing about dressing gown and slippers.  No complaints from me though.

Thank you for your kind comments yesterday - they were all appreciated.

What a fab day yesterday was.  First of all, the Yr5/6 show dress rehearsal was brilliant and I'm so looking forward to the actual performance this morning.  Reserved seat, front row - the advantage of being a governor!

Then I did a bit of Morrisons shopping before coming home for the flypast.  None of my photos are worth showing, but it was very impressive indeed.  By the time the Red Arrows had flown over, the first planes had done their fly over Buckingham Palace.  Goodness, they ain't half speedy!  I wish I could get into London half as quickly!

After tuition (fun as always), Beth came round and off we went to the allotment for a picnic and some watering.
I have to admit, we spent longer eating and chatting than watering and weeding but it was lovely - warm but fresh and very, very peaceful.  A thoroughly satisfying experience sitting among the results of earlier hard work.

We shall get great use out of this hamper this summer, I can tell!

It is now a proper allotment - we have our own baby robin.  A very handsome little chap, too young to have grown his red breast yet.

He came close but was a bit wary, keeping his beady little eye on us all the time, so we encouraged him with crumbs from our rolls.

I came home with two little courgettes and I think I will do something like roasted Mediterranean veg for dinner tonight.  Yum.

There will be more to pick in a few days but they will be for Beth.  It won't be long before we no longer need to take turns, the way they are looking!

And finally, I got some really great news about one of my students and their KS2 SATs performance - yes, the results are out!  Very satisfying.

Today is another good day.  First of all it's the first performance of the show.  Then I will go swimming because, although I normally hear readers in Y2 on Wednesday afternoons, I'm not needed this week.  On the way home, I will likely stop off at the allotment again as there's a lot of weeds daring to show their heads and put in half an hour or so.  Then I will complete the planning for tomorrow's tuition as it's always nice to get ahead.

No tuition this evening though.  There was going to be but the evening show performance was brought forward from a six o'clock start to a five o'clock start because of the World Cup semi and it would just be too tight.  Also, H will need a rest after school before going back for the show.

So, although there's plenty to do, what I'm doing is mostly because I'm not having to do other stuff so it feels like a gift (if that makes sense).  A spot (well, quite a lot of spots, actually) of rain would be the icing on the cake.

Have you had any rain down your way?