the way back

It wouldn’t be a proper summer holiday if I didn’t revisit the blog in some way. I actually tried to give it up a while back, but there are too many thoughts up in the air all the time. I need it more than I thought: a way to liberate myself from some of the anxieties in life – a form of therapy.   So, today’s trip down memory lane is going through comments I’ve received over the years to my posts. Most of them have been lovely, others have been downright odd. Below are the majority of them with a bit of contextualisation. ____________   The first set of comments were in response to a post about hypocritical relations between the head of that school I worked for and the NEU. As you will see below, a parent had asked if other members of staff could corroborate what I had put in the blog – the responses were unanimous in their judgement…   21/11/22 I’m a parent of children who’ve been at this school and am sad to read this. It would be very interesting to have other teache...

One of these days, There has to be a reckoning.  Wishful thinking?  Probably.  One of these days,  There should be a reckoning.  Definitely.  Probably won’t be. If there were,  We’d be on the right side of it.  I reckon. Others wouldn’t.  Though they probably wouldn’t care.  Some definitely.  Still.  There you go.