End of Half Term

Well, it's Sunday night at the end of another half term. Typically tonight JA and I won't sleep too well as our heads will be full of the things to come this week. I actually woke up this morning thinking about what I was going to teach tomorrow. Sad, but at least it has only happened once this week!
We've actually both had a great week off so I thought I would give a quick rundown of its highlights:
Saturday to Tuesday we were in Belfast visiting family and generally having a chance to relax.
A view across the loch/Irish Sea just up from the Patterson household.

Honey the family dog out on a late night walk.

The three lovely Patterson sisters.

Tuesday night of course saw us at the Athlete concert (see previous post) which was followed by a lazy Wednesday spent in Manchester city centre ending with a trip to the cinema to see The Legend of Zorro. Thursday was spent around the house catching up on cleaning/ironing etc before we made it to my parents to help out with the reception after the Didsbury Lectures. This gave me my chance to have a wee chat with N. T. Wright, or Tom as he introduced himself to me! I have to say he is a really nice bloke who was very easy to chat to and always had some little story to go along with the topic of conversation.

Friday approached quicker than expected so we finally got some school work done before making it out to the Jenkins for some curry and Settlers action. JA won and has insisted that I include this!

Saturday allowed us to do a little more work in order for us to enjoy our evening with the Brower-Latz's in Manchester along with their friends from the U.S. It was nice to get to meet them and show them our fair city but I have to say a Saturday night is probably not the best time to show it off (there's plenty more being shown off if you know what I mean!).

Anyway, here we are today after a visit to Emmanuel this morning, a viewing of The Interpreter this afternoon and a coffee with the Jenkins this evening.

So, all in all we have had a great week and enjoyed its variety of activities. We realise we are lucky in getting these breaks and won't take them for granted! And to finish, I have no idea why anybody would really be interested in hearing all of this but I suppose that whats blogs are for in a way. If this one wasn't so good maybe the next one might be!

All you teachers out there - enjoy the eight week run up to Christmas.

Disclaimer: Julie-Ann it should be said worked every day since Tuesday although this was not explicitly mentioned in the above post.