• I had a great time at Hobletts Infant School this Monday. It was a bit chaotic, as they were having a new library installed, so books were piles up around the Staff Room, being sorted and thinned out. One of the thinning was a club book from the Tufty Club, which must have been lurking untouched on the old library shelves for years!

    I was very impressed by a painting of penguins and puffins on the wall of the dining hall. The school is probably 1950’s, made in a cheap, throw’em up, pre-fab style. It still has it’s original metal, crittal windows, because the whole place would collapse if they were replaced! But there is this fabulous mural – I couldn’t see a signature, because part of it was hidden behind cupboards and things. ( I should be more nosey!) It must have been done very soon after the school was built. It has that wonderful Festival of Britain style about it. I hope it is logged somewhere . It should probably have a preservation order on it. It could do with a bit of restoration!

    Any way, Thanks for a great day everyone. Fabulous drawing – all of you – teachers too!

  • It seems that people like my little advice videos, and I’ve been meaning to do one for teenagers for a while, so hear it is. Hope you like it.

    More problems? Let me know and I’ll see if I can help. This is about Not worrying about failure – Not worrying about tomorrow – what people think about you and Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll!

  • I’ve often mentioned what a statistics junkie I am. Today I had a surprise when logging into my blogs back office. My statistics are provided for me by the wonderful people at wordpress.org. My statistics for today seemed to have gone bonkers for today. The bar on the graph had gone ballistic, but strangely, the numbers were about where I thought they would be.

    Then I realised the date. April 1st – April fool’s day. Very funny guys!