Sorry for the absence...

oh lets see how boring how life has been recently....coming up to the end of term the internet at school decided to crash in a heap for 2 weeks - thus making it rather hard for my referee to submit the reference to the GTTR to advance my teaching training application - however we have finally got there..

then there was covering a whole raft of history lessons whilst the head of history was on Paternity leave - these ranged from the fantastic to the truly awful (these tended to follow on from each other given the make up of his timetable)..

have managed to get into climbing a bit recently - after school with a couple of teachers and have surprised myself by being less incompetent than one might imagine; I am deffo short of finger strength and stamina however the mental side of things is going pretty well and I have still got good technique (not to mention my huge reach!!!!)

Now as I sit and write this with a LOT of snow in the ground in Cumbria we are in the middle of the xmas family season - however I am hoping to get out tomorrow even for a few hours snow-shoeing.

Right - off to wrap some presents!!