In pursuit of Health, Wealth and Happiness

Tete_en_l'Air

beccie wrote: »

Rubbish about the power cut - don't you hate those situations where you think if only I'd gone 5 minutes earlier!

I KNOW!

Caught up on your diary now - you're sounding very organised and focused at the moment

Are you crocheting anything at the moment? I started the vintage stripe blanket for my Mum and have really fallen behind at the moment. It's not needed till Xmas but being double bed sized and with me being away for a week in September and a month in November I really should be getting a move on

I'm knitting a couple of football scarves for some lads I know, it's slow going though! I also have a rainbow granny blanket as a long term project, haven't done anything on that in a while. I got all inspired seeing Ron Weasley's bed at the HP studio, there was a lovely knitted-squares blanket on it which was supposed to look shabby as their family is really poor but I loved it Is it this vintage stripe blanket? They work up pretty quickly if you can get into your groove although double bed size is pretty big! Work out how many stripes you need to do and how many days til Xmas (did I really just say that?) and you'll be able to keep track of whether you're on target. I could really do with following my own advice!

shrimpy_80 wrote: »

Swim a mile? Where is the 'falling down in a faint' smilie? I only do about half an hour at a time as I go before work so would be late if I did much more, although I guess there is nothing stopping me going in the evenings! I will still have to do sums to convert the metres to miles but I do like that idea, thanks!

I also love that you are doing something each day, this thread is really inspirational!

Aw thanks! I've just checked my figures and I used to swim a kilometre not a mile! 40 x 25m lengths. I'd shrivel and die by the time I swam a mile I think, I'm so slow!

Tete_en_l'Air

Kittikins wrote: »

What a pain about the power cut, I'm working from home today whilst waiting for the electricity board to come and do something dull to my electricity supply, listening to a Radio 4 programme on procrastination in i-player and............procrastinating!

I could procrastinate for Team GB! I was hoping that having this new-found plan would give me the get up and go in my day job to fire off emails without checking facebook in between and so on (so that I could do a bit of teaching research in work) but no such luck so far, am hopeless. Is the programme good?

I should be contacting DD's school and others to try and get myself a placement, but am putting it off until I know in a few weeks when I will be leaving my job. I should also be brushing up my Latin, or even posting off the cheque for the couse! Hmm, I have a loooong list of things to do....

I don't have any qualification in it, but did study it for a couple of years and took Ancient Greek and love etymology of words, so really believe that children should learn some Latin, maybe whilst doing their Roman topic.

Yes me too! SO interesting! Was the Greek as useful as the Latin?

Kittikins

Ancient Greek is fab Although I appreciate it more now than I did then.....wish I'd worked harder! Basically when I look at a new word, or a new language, I can often work out simple meanings by trying to think whether it's of Greek or Latin origin, so it's been really helpful.

I've spent quite a bit of time recently researching PGCE - what I can recommend is that you go onto the www.tes.co.uk Times Educational Supplement. The forums on there are brilliant, also the teaching resources that people upload (I get a lot of stuff for my Rainbows group from there). I've found loads of threads about what the PGCE is really like, how to apply etc, what different unis are like etc.

PM me your email address if you'd like me to send over other websites/info I've found out. I'm putting together packs of stuff to read when I stop procrastinating or am sitting on the dole, whichever comes first!!;)

I've now just listened to Stephen Fry's English Delight on i-player, and have discovered that I can get a Makaton book out of my local library - more procrastinating

Kepp

That is the very same blanket

I did work it out, put a little reminder on my phone for each day so that I could tick it off when I had done each stripe, plus allowed some extra time for a border - then put it in a bag in the craft room and promptly ignored it for month whilst the reminders piled up on my phone

Tete_en_l'Air

I really want to eat the crisps in my drawer but it's almost tea time. Tell me not to eat the crisps!!!

ruby_eskimo

tete_en_l'air wrote: »

i really want to eat the crisps in my drawer but it's almost tea time. Tell me not to eat the crisps!!!

stay away from the crisps!!!!!!

Dinah93

What do you want more - crisps or to loose that pesky stone that's hanging around? A bag of crisps undoes half a session of 30DS. What would Gillian do?

Tete_en_l'Air

Thanks for that Ruby Jillian would punch me probably but luckily it was enough to just write it here I didn't want to have to slope in later and confess, and I'm having some chewing gum for the minty taste. Phew, that was close!

Tete_en_l'Air

Oh dear Beccie, maybe you need to face it, a bit like with debts, and see how much you actually have to do and you'll feel better?

Eep Kitti you're so much more organised than me! I didn't realise the TES had a forum, that's really interesting.. Will PM you now

tinkerbel

wow tete this is amazing and so inspirational!
Good luck in your new journey it all seems very exciting!