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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  

Well I thought it was about time I made a few improvements to the website aesthetic as its looked a bit stuck in the past for quite sometime - some might argue, since its inception. The black is gone, as has most other colour replaced by a lot of white open spaces. Hopefully it looks a little cleaner and still remains easy to navigate. There have also been a few updates in the background to help things run more smoothly and a few more features from the old site have been converted to now work in PHP. There's still a lot to do but it is certainly the most significant update the website has had in a good few years.

In other news we went to Kew garden yesterday. The weather was nice and sunny if a little cool in the breeze at times. Fiona came to meet us so we had a good catch-up. Everywhere is starting to look a lot more green and colourful now that the flowers are starting to come out and it's beginning to feel quite summery. Here's hoping the weather continues - I'm pretty sure I saw an article last week promising a three month heat wave, so here's hoping!

It's been a busy time at school on the lead up to Easter getting all the work finished including over the break itself. Both Dani and I were in with year 11, 12 and 13 students for revision and coursework completion sessions. Now that we're back after the break, we're entering the exam season at school. A lot of deadlines are looming for entry of coursework marks and it's not long before year 11 are sitting their first exams.

With the summer getting closer we've started to think about the break and what we might get up to. We're not sure yet but have started to go back through the journal we kept on our Europe trip to give us some ideas, so I guess we shall see.

Hopefully I should get a few more updates on before the summer. There's still a lot of the album functionality that doesn't work from an admin perspective. I can't upload new photos to the site yet. Keep checking back though and feel free to look though the archives where most of the content currently resides. 

. . . . at just 40sk (or 80 pence to the rest of us) is Bratislava home of the cheapest 0.5L of beer in Europe? Bratislava has been great, would definately recommend it. Not silly cheap but certainly a lot cheaper for some things. We found a little internet cafe on our travels today and so you can now find the remaining Vienna pictures that were missing from the last post.

      

You will now also be able to find pictures from our time in Slovenia - another fantastic city! Tomorow we travel to Budapest at 7.09am so its going to be a bit of an early one in the morning. Not much other news really . . so will leave it at that . . . oh found a shop called 'troll' so will be emailing the picture to a couple of people from work sometime soon . .right thats really it, think there's someone waiting to get on the internet, cheerio ta ta