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After another busy term, we've eventually hit Easter. We're actually half way through the break at this point and have alredy spent the last week decorating the stairs and landing before coming away to Cornwall with mum. The weather this spring has been less than impressive so far with the "Beast from the East" weather just a few short weeks ago dumping snow everywhere. On the plus side it did reward us with a snow day, although in our case it was actually a "frozen pipe day", with the water pipes frozen leading to a lack of water across the school site. With all this in mind we weren't suprised to see the weather reports for this week predicting cloudy days and light rain. We arrived yesterday to Brook Cottage, our home for the week. It's in Carpis Bay which is just a short distance out of St Ives and is very nicely appointed with 3 bedrooms, a fully equiped kitchen and a games room including darts, table football and a table tennis table. Even better there was a welcome basket when we arrived with lots of essentials including tea bags, coffee, milk, some biscuits, a box of celebrations and a bottle of wine! 

Today, we had a wander around St. Ives. The weather was amazing with bright sunshine and blue skies. St. Ives looked as beautiful as usual in the sunshine with clear blue water and sandy beaches. We stopped for some lunch in Olives Tea Room where I had my first Cornish cream tea of the week. Dani had some coffee cake whilst mum had a quiche and salad. It was all very tasty and we left feeling very full up.

We finished off the day heading for Godrevy National Trust car park in Gwithian, but unfortunately arrived to find it full with the top car park seemingly closed. We found a place to park a little further along the road and headed up the path to look out to sea, there were no seals sadly but still quite a view. 

Here's hoping the weather continues a bit longer ...  

Hello everyone,

Its official, we have left the country. We are sat here in Naples on day two of our big europe adventure. Day one went off to a bad start with a delayed flight - we sat on the tarmac at East Midlands Airport for an extra hour and a half because the pilot was unhappy with the paper work apparently! That could have been an extra hour and a half in bed, which would have been nice given we got up at 3am, but nevermind!

We walked out of the airport in Rome to find we were surrounded by armed police and army with a couple of fire engines chucked into boot. Having waited around for about 40 minutes and heard a very loud bang possibly gun shot, the authorities dispersed and we got ourselves a bus!Long story short about 3 hours later (including an hour and a half wandering without a map before conceeding and buying one) we arrived at Hostel 1 (Gullivers House). Unfortunately our one night booking had been cancelled and thus we ended up at the Roma Inn - seemingly a work in progress given the bare wires and workmen.

Today is an awesome day by comparison - very little carrying of heavy bag - living the dream! Train and Metro and a local with dog (that spoke no English - the man not the dog) got us to our destination at La Controra in super quick time. It is really quite tasty - and breakfast is included ;-). Not sure what's happening tomorow - possibly Pompeii - tell you next time I guess!

Hello everybody,

I'm beginning to feel more like a proper teacher type person now, particularly given I have officially attended two - yes thats right - two staff InSeT days! Blimey do teachers know how to have a good time - I'm sure you're all curious to know exactly what happens on these 'training days' but you're going to have to keep on wondering as now I'm a teacher type I'm bound by the secrets of teacherdom - yes thats right teacherdom. Hmm I think I might have drunk some funny orange squash or something, this post is a little bit strange and mostly an unnecessary waste of time. However on the bright side, since my last post, I have almost 8000 words. That is not to say I have 8000, useful or insightful words, just that I have managed to bluff my way to the end and hit the word count. I have absolutely no doubt that I'll still be working on it late on Thurday if not Friday morning, but hey ho!

Only a few more weeks and I get my life back (temporarily) - then I just have to worry about securing some kind of employment. Meep. I hope the sun is shining wherever you are, and fingers crossed for some warmer weather (the electric heaters in the flat have been costing us a fortune to run!). Cheerio ta ta for now