Saying Hello to 2018

So, 2018 is finally upon us. Where on earth did 2017 go? It feels like it went by in a flash – I can remember celebrating New Year last year so clearly. Well, as clearly as I can. 2017 was a funny year; funny in the sense that I can’t remember much pre-April. That’s kinda…

How Can it Be?

Wow. It's six days before Christmas and where has this year gone? I'm breaking my blog writing sabbatical to furiously tap about at my laptop keyboard a) because I'm bored as hell and b) I'm inspired. 2017 has been one hell of a year; in both good and bad ways. This blog is kinda selfish,…

Flakey

I've been a little flakey with blog posts over the past few weeks. Not uploading every Monday, Wednesday, Friday or writing blog posts that don't compare to my normal wit and charm. I've been a bit flakey with these blogs because...well... I don't really have a reason. I would open up my laptop, sit in…

Attracting the Broken

I was once told that I have a magnet on my back. A magnet that attracts those (particularly young people) who have or having difficult times in their lives. They're going through things that no child should have to go to, they have nobody they can talk too... I seem to attract the broken, the…

Thanksgiving on the Blogosphere

It's Thanksgiving Thursday, so a big Happy Thanksgiving to any of my American followers/occasional readers/I don't know what I'm doing here readers. I hope you're all having a fabulous holiday celebrating however you may be celebrating. We don't really celebrate Thanksgiving here in the good old United Kingdom, but that does not mean that I…

Above and Beyond

Recently, I've taken to doing bits of homework that my students get set to encourage them, show them that they can do more than they think but also to satisfy my deep rooted stance that I am a teachers pet. I always have been and I always will be. I tell my students and they…

Falling in love with Fall

Autumn is officially here. And this makes me happy. I haven't fully appreciated Autumn in a few years. Living by the sea, you don't really have big, willowing trees over hidden avenues. There are no paths littered with the darkened red confetti thrown by the trees. Now that I'm back in England - I'm falling…

Get Ya Head in the Game

I went back to Aberystwyth this weekend and I did not want to be there at all. I didn't have the energy, I could feel myself getting sick and I've only literally just got back. There is nothing in the world that could have changed my mind. As I said in my blog on Friday,…

Here We Are Again

This blog comes to you from a train, because what else am I going to be doing on a November Friday night? This train is going to Aberystwyth, because where else would I be going on a train on a November night? But, for the first time in forever - I do not really want…

The Water and Me

I took a week off blogging last week and for that I'm not sorry. I needed some time to think, to breathe, and to get through the first week of term but also to get through what would have been my Mum's birthday. I don't really know where this blog is going today; it's being…