Living Alone Day One

Ok I've moved into my new flat so that Hannah can come home and hopefully sometime and separation will sort out our relationship and we can get on an even keel which would be fantastic the flat is lovely I really think it's more than enough room for me you know it's only two rooms I can't use the front room at the moment we have no 288 technically it should be the bedroom but uh I put the bed in the back room for the moment.
Of course not everything can go perfectly and the biggest worst possible thing happened when I plugged in my PC which was working perfectly at home this morning and was transported very delicately to euro today but it won't load it's recording a critical error fault so I cannot access any music you can access any Comics or any Media that is on there nor will I be able to use it for the Internet when I get connection on Tuesday I'm currently looking at ways to get it repaired hopefully without wiping all the data but I've all the things that could have happened that was a real bastard um
I'm watching daredevil the Director's Cut which just seemed to put little better than the original film and I just had a coffee and a couple of panel chocolate that's a long ways of getting what electronic devices out the work and getting law plugged in and charging unpacked all my clothes put up the bed and got the TV in place got the kitchen sorted out everything in its place I'm just such a little housewife today and make pop up for a walk to Aldi in a little while to get sense of dead sheep £17 a bottle Coke and I said cheap and it's written down sheep ha ha oh you've got the love you've got another word regular voice recognition at times anyway if I do it like this I can keep your blogger everyday and tell you what's going on I'm really sorry about what's happened to Hannah um I'm dreadfully dreadfully sorry I said if we have some time apart but happy we can drive through a get-together find out we actually like each other and love each other I don't quite know what's going on but something went toxic and the time apart would be great and I hope you feel so much better now that you feel safe please my love don't fall into despair or depression don't be naughty at school just work hard and passed his exams it's your future my love and I don't want to be responsible for spoiling it for you I love you dearly you can have my kidney anytime you need it and I just roll myself and robust to stop it rolling all the you

Hannah 16 Today

Hannah 16 today. 8 am and already 47 Snapchat Happy Birthdays...little miss popular. 

China; All The Pictures in The Flickr Album

Hannah's China Trip Day One – Travelling, Temple of Heaven & Evening Entertainment

Below is a copy of the post on the school travel blog about the first day of Hannah's school trip to China. Thursday 24 - Friday 25 March 2016.

The plan was for the students to write a daily blog… update on the things we have been doing, sights we have been seeing and the food we’ve been eating. We hadn’t counted on tiring them out so much by 8pm on day one that they have all gone to bed. So todays blog entry is from the staff who are holding in there… just about.

After an early 5:15 arrival at school and over 20 hours travelling we arrived in Beijing to sunshine and headed straight to our first destination, The Temple of Heaven. The first stop was the communal outdoor gym, where young and old were exercising together. We caused a bit of a stir, and were treated like celebrities as local people queued to have ‘selfies’ with us. It was great to see the community spirit, from Matchmaker corner to gossip corner and the street performers and groups sitting together making music and playing games. We were able to see the amazing temple itself, and learnt a lot about Chinese culture and beliefs.

On to the food! After our walk we were all ready for lunch. We were given our own private room in a local restaurant where everyone enjoyed getting to grips with chopsticks whilst waiting for the food. Once the food started it never stopped! The main ingredient on offer was duck however there was no shortage of beef, pork, chicken, rice, greens, dumplings and noodles. Everyone agreed the food was amazing and we think it’s safe to say hunger is not going to be an issue on this trip!

After a short comfort break at the hotel – bag drop and shower, we headed out for a cultural extravaganza! An acrobatic performance which was absolutely stunning and somewhat terrifying at times. No health and safety regulations obvious here. The finale involved 6 motorcycles in a wire ‘wall of death’. The noise of the engines, the flashing lights and the sound of the horns meant we were all on tenterhooks to ensure they all exited safely. A real authentic experience.

Then there was more food..dumplings, rice and sweet and sour pork. After that pleas for bed. Never has an entrance lobby of a hotel emptied so fast by 26 teenagers heading to bed at 8pm without a whimper.

So here ends day 1..tomorrow we’re off to the Great Wall!!

Hannah's School Report

OK well finally got the scanner on the printer working and here are the first results. Hannah's pretty good, could be better (as always for everyone forever), School Report

Cambridge

Hannah has just left to go to school and she is going from there to Cambridge University for a poetry day now she doesn't know where she's going to which college what's happening today or anything else and she's also not in regulation school trousers and they are supposed to be wearing uniform so if that goes tits up and she's not allowed to go then that will be a nightmare!

Neither Deborah nor I have ever been to Cambridge although I have visited Oxford which is very similar apparently so we have asked Hannah to take lots of photographs and to make a note of which college she goes to et cetera et cetera and hopefully this will be done in which case I will add said photographs to this entry at a later date.

It would seem that the trick of using voice recognition software to dictate blog entries rather than trying to write them on a tiny telephone keypad is to speak quite slowly and clearly pronounce each word

School Visit and Grove Park Farm Pub Meal

Yesterday I went, via lift from Donna and Josh, to Brockington College to see Hannah’s teachers and get an update on her progress. Met Deb there (she works at the school as does Nathaniel who has a job there as a cleaner which he does after school … 17 years old earning £4,500 pa and also doing “A” Levels!).

Everything was fine; the lowest point was she was advised if she wanted to do Triple Science she would have to work harder and stop coasting (she’s best at science in her class group and finds it too easy)but aside from that she received glowing reports in all her subjects especially Music and Drama. Planned GCSE’S are:

Maths

English x 2

Triple Science …. Biology, Chemistry and Physics

History

Music &

Drama

Afterward we stopped at Grove Farm | Farmhouse Inns' target=_blank>Grove Park Farm Pub for a meal; Hannah had the veggie chilli and we three had the mega carvary meal which proved to be a little too much (excepting Nat who cleared his plate) and next time I think I’ll have the curry. Yet again managed to take absolutely no pictures as I also did when we went there with Deb’s Dad Alf and Shannon just before Xmas.

Hannah's School Report December 2014

Scanned copy of report.