Warming Up

I'm studying The Writers Bureau course and in their first book, they recommend warming up your brain for writing. This is what I'm doing right now! I'm told that this initial practice writing can be discarded. I've decided to plot my journey via this blog so I won't be doing that. This will be a little haphazard however as I get my brain into gear!

I'm two thirds of the way through my first assignment so this will probably be a short entry. I'm keen to get this first assignment finished so I can make progress with the second one. The advise we are given is to draft and re-draft but there is nothing to stop me studying the next section of the course in between drafts!

So back to today and the things I have been doing. Today has been a busy day as I've been teaching Year 3 and the Nursery children whilst on supply. It's the first time I've spent the two sessions with different classes and it wasn't much fun. I didn't feel like I belonged anywhere!

Emily returned to school today. She was sick on Saturday night and early Sunday morning so that combined with our needing her father take her to school today, I was a little anxious. It seems like she had a lovely day though so I needn't have worried. There were the usual tears in the morning but that's still to be expected at this stage.

Caitlin tired her daddy out today as she missed her mammy! They had an exciting time at the swings but by three o'clock it seems they were both flagging. Only one more day to go though so it could be worse.

The real excitement of the day came at 5 o'clock this morning. The washer that had been threatening to break for several days finally decided to give up. It had been hemorrhaging hot water most of the night but thankfully it was only a slow leak. I tried persuading Dai that we should get a torch and look for the stop cock at 5am but needless to say he decided that this wasn't in any one's best interests! Similarly, a call to our trusty plumber (my dad!) was avoided until the much more reasonable time of quarter to eight. I don't know what his call out charge is but less than 12 hours later and the tap is fixed!