Bump Watching

For all you keen bump watchers out there, here is the long awaited bump shot at 30 weeks and 5 days.
Baby is well, he/she certainly is an active one! Hopefully he/she won't be giving us this much action at 3am in the morning in 2 months time!

Off to the coast

Well, one week is over and we are about to begin our second week of Easter holidays.
Easter is a great holiday, not only because it is so crucial in the Christian calendar and to us, but also because it is great to get two weeks off work. One week to 'tinker' with school work and another to holiday, rest and relax.
So tomorrow, after church we are off to Staithes on the north east coast.


We will blog later in the week to tell you all about it, we are staying in a house 2 doors up from where Captain Cook was born? lived? (not quite sure which one!)

A happy Easter to all.

School holidays

Don't you just love them!
Well Jamie and I do. We are now 3 days into them and we have been enjoying our lack of routine. We find the whole Monday to Friday get up around 6.30am be at work from 7.30am leave work between 4.30 and 6pm a bit boring... so it is so great when the holidays come round.
So... what have we been up to?
On Monday Jamie went to school with me to help me move lots of my heavy stuff and take down displays that required balancing precariously on the top of a ladder. Tuesday we both went to our own schools and caught up on paperwork for J and for me, well more packing up of my resources and things. I thought I should do it now when the kids aren't in as I have only 5 weeks of teaching left when we go back after Easter.
But today has been the best day so far. We got in our new car, ( we had to get one that would fit a pram and a car seat and 2 adults!!) and drove to Formby Point, near Liverpool,

to see the red squirrels,

stroll around in the sand dunes,and get our faces blown off on the beach.

It was great. We did see something that caught our eye, you really can find everything including a kitchen sink on Formby Beach!!

All in all a great day, a cool way to spend our day.

On another note, our good friends Eifion and Esther are now in Dubai and soaking up temperatures in the 30's. They were hoping to go sand dune buggy racing, we don't think the wind will be as biting there as it was today in Formby. Have a good holiday Jenkins!! Enjoy the sun!

For all you baby bump watchers, we will try to remember to take photos of the growing bump and post them soon. ( only 11 weeks to go!!)

End of Term

It's the end of term!!! The kids are leaving school and suddenly I am surrounded by peace and quiet. Oh the joys of knowing you have 2 weeks off!
Well, I knew it had been such a long time since I had posted that I thought I would share this little story with you. Some of you may know about it already but my friend here at work showed this to me earlier.
Below is a picture that won the Photo of the Year competition in the National Geographic. As you can see it is a pretty amazing shot. My colleague is a R.E. teacher and uses it to creat discussions in his class about Who, What, How, Where, Why etc. He says this photo in particular is a particularly powerful tool.

He then went on to say that this picture was in fact a hoax. When readers of the National Geographic had seen this the magazine received 2 seperate letters, one claiming the shark photo to be theirs and one claiming the helicopter photo to be theirs!

The photo had in fact been overlapped to give the sensational picture above. You can see below this the photos that were placed together to give this one image.

Well, I'll let you know how the half term is going throughout next week. I do have quite a lot of work to do so I will be coming back into school for a couple of days. As some of you know that is quite unlike me!

I'm also off to the United-Arsenal game this weekend. Got some tickets in the new Quadrants that have been recently built so looking forward to that.

On Easter Sunday we'll take off with my Mum and Dad to Whitby for a few days so it will be nice to get away. That's all for now!