A busy day once again, but utterly pleasurable. The two lessons I taught this morning both went well – even though they flew by once again. This afternoon involved a meeting at another local Primary School about maths. Good debate was had about the pros and cons of the new curriculum, including plenty of opinion. It’s always interesting to see how others work, even if what happens in one school would never be right for where I work – for many and various reasons. That’s the issue – people fail to realise just how individual a school can be. Six schools were represented at the meeting earlier and we all did things differently.
Moving on, after leaving Heaton Avenue, I searched for a geocache knowing that I would have little time later on to go out with Mrs Pitts. Sure enough, one was within 200 metres of the car park, so I moved out (having already signed out of the school some people get a little upset if you don’t actually leave straight away) and reparked a little closer to the park this cache was in. However, once there it was clear that the cache had been destroyed. The cache was part of a Mr Men series – the creator of which was born in the town I live in – and they are all CD cases with the appropriately named Mr Men character on the cover. This was Mr Uppity (GC4M0CB). The CD case was broken into a few pieces and most of the remnants were placed in a convenient cow pat. The original log, however, was fairly intact so signable and retrievable to pass on to the owners the next time we see them. See the photos below:
Band was good fun too. Including today, there are four rehearsals left until our first Christmas performance. This means that we must play Christmas music to make a good deal of it. 20 pieces later, we left the band’s rehearsal room tired and Christmassed up to the max!
To continue my Japanese race build up, the 2007 race was on Sky F1 tonight. I remember a little less about this one, held a Fuji in the pouring rain. The Safety Car started the race and stayed out for a long time – I’ve just looked it up and it was out for 19 of the 67 laps. The race is also notable for being the first to feature a lap lead by Sebastian Vettel…
Finally, some photos appeared online today which have been colourised. This is an unusual thing because it involves taking a historic image and giving it an artist’s touch. Clearly this leads to discrepancies between the original colouring and the final colouration. Some of them are a little eerie, but most are fabulous.
I’ve just chosen one here, the Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937. The rest can be seen here and here.
