...as the world wakes to the wonderful site of chillean Miners emerging from the raw earth in what looks like a giant Mexican jumping bean - it was a shock to the system to realise how cold it was outside - it was proper late autumn, leaves on the ground and not proper dark until 10 past 7am..... Even the dogs were shocked, and Alfie Greyhund refused to travel further than Fairlight Avenue, turning his nose up against the joys of bunny bothering. This will be my third winter without central heating.
I gave them breakfast - which they scoffed with indecent haste and left the room for only a couple of moments only to return to see that by applying teamwork and basic mechanics, they had managed to get the fridge open again and each had a tub of ( buy-one-get-one-free ) margerine. I'm so short of money at the moment I really did consider scraping to top off and putting them back in the fridge - but saw sense.
I fried two eggs... despite both being identical to start with - one had twice as much 'egg' inside as the other. I bought cheaper than usual brown bread and the crust detached in the toaster, blocking the slots and burning - it really pissed me off. £1.60 a loaf and it's shite.
It's my day off, but I have to go to college at 9am - return home at 10.30am, work in my office - return at 3pm, work - have a two hour break ( to pack in more work ) then teach my evening class. I hate Wednesdays. As predicted - now that The Apprentice has started - I'm losing evening class students. Tonight, it's 'become a photoshop expert in 2 hours' for 18 beginners.....
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I seem to remember from my days of teaching evening classes that all the classes experienced a drop off after the first three weeks or so, as it gets darker earlier, their resolve plummets and inertia sets in. I'd have done the same myself had I not been the teacher. And then you're left with your nucleus of keeners who come every week and stay til the bitter end - and then sign up the next year.
yep - that's it EXACTLY!
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