OK… I’ve been writing this one for a while. Forgive my tardiness, I need to get back into blogging (sounds odd saying that after last year – I’ve enjoyed my break too much!)
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This past week (yes, it was over a week ago I typed this), I had a birthday. I am 31.
It was a good birthday. My wonderful wife created for me a cake based on our cat. Here they are side-by-side. It’s hard to remember not to cut the breathing one.
In other birthday news, I now have a new camera. I’ve never really played around with a decent digital camera before – my last one was a simple point and click Kodak from the turn of the millennium – and I’m getting the hang of things. Kit is coming in handy as a willing subject for now, but I need to take it out into the wild soon!
Soon it is internet safety day (11th February). A key part of my input with the children will be a video that I posted earlier this week (see A Message For Everyone). This utterly struck me as being one the best pieces of explanation ever. I have always used the phrase, “Once they’re said, words stay spoken,” a line from The Divine Comedy‘s Sticks And Stones, to explain the problems of name calling – but this video takes that idea one step further. Hopefully it will strike a chord with the children, seeing the reaction of someone on the receiving end of what is essentially cyber bullying.
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Elsewhere, Mrs Pitts has hurt her foot and that has been the reason for the delay in posting this really. I have been a husband of goodness looking after her. Things seem to be on the mend though.
I’m writing this on the day that Facebook turns 10. Back when I was 21, in 2004, I was still at university, still working for Debenhams, and I had a huge amount ahead of me – some of which I was aware of (the whole teaching thing), others not so aware of (conducting, drumming, all the maths I’ve learnt, the relationship I’m now in, the cat and fish I am now responsible for etc.). Other things haven’t changed much in that time. I still spent a long time on computers, still watch Formula One (I can’t think that I’ve missed any race in that time) and there is this site, still here now.
I probably have changed far more than I realise. Hopefully for the better.
5th February 2014 @ 1:23 am
What a wonderful post! Happy birthday! Mrs. Pitts has an absolutely incredible knack for makng cakes! Really, that kit cake is fabulous.