What a lovely surprise I received today! Thank you so very much to the Stigle family for their lovely gift. I am very touched. Somewhere out there in the constellation of Andromeda is now a star named 'Blue Amethyst' and every time I think of it I will remember all of the children I have taught over the years. It is a lovely gift, thank you.

Here are some long awaited photos of Gwyne and Paula's wedding. Thank-you for having us along, we had a great time. Hello to Ian and Lorraine if they happen to have popped in! :)

The School holidays are ticking along nicely now. Some Pilates that has made my stomach sore, shopping, a few beers on Friday night and a couple of sleepy days mean I am starting to unwind at last!

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The end of term is always a busy time of year. People often think it is time to wind down, sadly not. Thankfully the Ofsted phone call did not come and we can all have a more restful holiday and recharge our batteries before they arrive sometime in the Autumn. Everyone else seems to have already started their summer but we have another few days yet, hopefully the weather is just waiting for us before becoming a glorious summer of sunshine!

Hrm. Maybe not.

I borrowed all of our family photos from Mum last weekend for use at the wedding. There are hundreds of them and some I had never seen before. They made me smile, laugh and cry all at the same time. Grandparents, parents, Dan and I as babies, toddlers, badly dressed teenagers and so on. Also many happy pictures of the four of us all together. It was all a bit emotional really. I may post some more here when Nick has scanned them. You would not believe the haircuts! Here is one for starters:

With grandmothers in mind, a huge thanks to the grandmother of one of my class who knitted us something for the wedding...

:)

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Well it has been quite an emotional week for me one way or another.

Exam results came in and a huge well done to the kids as they have achieved the highest SATs results the school has ever had! Well done kids!

Tour de France day at school also went very well. The kids all enjoyed their French lunch and cycle orienteering at the Rec was just so much fun! You feel lucky as a teacher sometimes, to be able to watch such happy faces enjoying themselves and older children taking younger ones by the hand and helping them along, is something that other people do not get to see in the course of their working day.

Wedding list organisation has occurred. What fun to go aroung a shop saying 'I will have one of those, three of those, a whole set of those beautiful but ridiculously expensive wine glasses, four of those...' Much excitement,

Invitations are being picked up today by the lovely matt, and I am bizarrely exctied by that. I think it is because we designed them ourselves that makes it so exciting. Thanks Matt and Mary!

Nick actually has a Saturday off which is most welcome. Although he is planning all sorts of jobs to do for the rest of the day, fixing the roof, cleaning the carpets, clearing the conservatory... So much for a relaxing weekend!

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