SLAUGHTER! 20th October 2008 Grade 10 are taking their exams next week (GCSE equivalent).There has been little in the way of lessons taught all week, in fact, it's been more like a Butlins Holiday Camp than a school (do they still exist? Butlins I mean?).Things haven't been helped by the threat of a teachers' strike, which would affect the examinations, so teachers have been coming and going all week to this union meeting (where no decision was made) to that un...

CABBAGE WATCHING 28th September 2008 This is a new phenomenon!From our front window we can see our neighbour's garden, which is full of very healthy looking cabbages (see photo).It runs alongside the path leading to the school and the road.So, cabbage watching is undertaken by all and sundry first thing in the morning, and I mean first thing, ie before 6am, during the evenings and at week-ends. It has been known for a teacher to be spied leaving the classro...

GEMBOGL - FRESH STRAWBERRIES September 21st 2008 It's pronounced Gembock and they grow strawberries there throughout the year, the most delectable strawberries we have ever tasted! We were to be picked up from Kundiawa supposedly on Thursday at 12 noon, but had a call to say that the timings had changed now to 3 or 4pm.Then we had a call about 4pm to say the truck was baggerup and the weather had made the road impassable, so they would pick us up on Friday mor...

FLYING VISIT September 10th 2008 Just to let you know that we've just returned from a flying visit to UK.We heard on Tuesday 19th Aug that my dad was in hospital, very sick.Flights home were arranged by VSO on the Wednesday and we flew into Heathrow on Friday morning around 6am.Unfortunately, my dad died around 4am that morning.It was all very sudden.He became ill in the early hours of Monday 18th and taken to hospital, where he was very disorientated and confu...

GENERALLY BAGGERUP! 20th August 2008 First it was the toaster - decided one morning that even though we had electricity it wasn't going to work.John hacked it to pieces but repairs were not possible as the Chinese innards were not fathomable!So crackers and our last mouldy bit of cheese it was for breakfast that day!Then I was opening a tin of tuna for a delectable tuna salad when the screw around thingy came off in my hand!!Blasphemy all round! Then kind John ...