Happy New Year!
Posted: January 31, 2010 Filed under: Blether, Books, ESOL teaching 3 Comments »Can I still say that? It’s still January, isn’t it? (Just!)
It’s been a while. Been very busy recently with no time to blog …
I’m lolling in bed as I write this. I got up exceptionally early today (8.15 on a Sunday morning is unheard of for me), but I wanted to be up and coffee’ed by the time Murray and Federer’s match started at 8.30.
I was torn re who to support … Murray, the Scottish underdog, or the lovely Roger Federer. In the end, it was a pretty one-sided match. Poor wee Murraykins, eh? Maybe next time.
I’m feeling a bit better after my late afternoon snooze.
I fell asleep earlier reading an amazing book: ”Shame” by Jasvinder Sanghera. It’s the true story of a woman who ran away from home at the age of 15 1/2 to avoid a forced marriage and about everything that she went through.
She’s an absoluetly amazing woman, and she’s since set up an organisation called Karma Nirvana which supports victims of honour-based abuse and forced marriage. Apparently she’s written another book, too, about some of the stories of the women that she has helped through her organisation. I think that’ll have to be next on my reading list.
I’m going to get back to the book now – I need to know what happens in the end! And then, it’s Sunday evening … which means I have to prep for tomorrow. Hate that back to school feeling.
Bank holiday plans
Posted: August 30, 2009 Filed under: Blether, Blogs I’m currently reading, Books, Films 2 Comments »1. Put items for sale on ebay – free listing till 31st August!
2. Sort out this big bag of shite, aka teaching resources. (This is just a small sample of the many that I need to sort and organise, but I need to start somewhere!).
3. A bit of work —- boooo hissssss! (Gonna try and get it all done today, though).
4. Relax with Mr Jones’s book.
5. Later: Scrummy food, and paradoxically, this film.
Hope you’re all having a bank holiday blast.
ps I am so pleased because I have managed to fix my camera … with a Lego brick! This means I won’t have to use my crappy phone camera in future – hooray!
Stuff
Posted: May 14, 2009 Filed under: Blether, Books, Music Leave a comment »Feeling a bit ill at the moment (hope it’s not swine flu 
) but enjoying slobbing on the sofa with my hot water bottle.
I’m really looking forward to Question Time this evening. Not sure who’s on it, but there’s sure to be a lot of focus on MPs’ expenses, ha ha. I hope the audience give the unlucky politicians who are booked for this evening a grilling! Thieving so and so’s.
In other news, I’m going through a bit of a reality-TV-stars’-books-thing at the moment! A couple of weeks ago, I read Katie Price’s book, then moved onto Jade Goody’s autobiography. Now I’m reading Nikki Grahame’s “Dying to be Thin”. Yes, I know it all sounds sad, people keep telling me so, but, hey, I’m enjoying them.
Katie Price’s book was a real page turner … complete trashy nonsense, obviously, but I was gripped.
Jade Goody’s biography was fantastic, and I really gained new respect for the woman after the reading the book. She had a such a terrible time as a child, yet managed to escape the poverty and misery, and become successful at what she did. (And I don’t think she was a racist … just gaffe-prone, and damaged). It was really well-written, too (by ghost writer, Lucie Cave). Nice review here.
Nikki Grahame seems to have written the book herself. It’s all about her struggle with anorexia, and, bloody hell, what a struggle it has been for her. She’s only eight in the bit I’ve got up to, and she’s already spent 6 months in a psychiatric hospital because she was so badly affected. I’m really enjoying reading the book as I’m quite interested in eating disorders (have never suffered myself though, thank god).
As I type this, Gossip are on TV singing “Standing in the Way of Control”. I love their music and this song in particular. Enjoy this clip!
