Poor Delilah is still looking sad and forlorn in my driveway.....Oh I miss my Lilah! But I have more or less sorted a "new car" its a Punto. I know what they say but I like the car and liked driving it so I fully intend on going for it tomorrow when I sort it all out!!
I still have no music study done for saturdays onsite class with Hibernia. I am a bad bad bad student!! Hehehehe
That said I do love the rest I am enjoying!
I shopped again.....Bought a Childrens manners book in Limerick, ideal for circle time in junior classes I think....basically I wanted it for tp2 when I have first class! Also bought a fab everyday useful irish words kids dictionary there so I am delighted! Almost shopped out.....
Except for a car!
Looking for suggestions for a name for a baby blue Punto by the way.......all ideas taken and considered!!
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FANTASY FOOTBALL UPDATE!
I could have done better this week.....Came out with 40 points compared to Gavin's 54 points. SHAMEFUL!! Leaves me 11th again in The Almost Daily Sports Blog league.....not good, thats 11 out of 13. Must Do Better! Making huge changes this week to try and catch up. I just hope they work! I have 111 points altogether, Gavin has 130 and the leader at the moment has 192. Not much to catch up on?? Ya right!
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Music is the next onsite with Hibernia! You'd think that I'd be mad racing into the world of music and the tin whistle to get ahead of the work load! But nope! I'm far too busy car shopping!! I have mastered Twinkle Twinkle though as my tune, and Mary had a little lamb!! The onlines start on the 1st of sep....soc of education, another airy fairy one for us!! YIPPEE!! Just what I wanted!!
A little shopping tip guys! Easons....have gorgeous A4 hardback notebooks 3 for €6 really pretty colours to keep the concentration going! Also.....TESCO....Stabilo pens ten multicoloured ones for €3.59 a fantastic but if you're like me and need colours so you dont get bored taking notes! Like I do! Tesco also have reward stickers for €1.95 there are 300 stickers in a pack with animals facces and gold stars! Perfect for the junior classes!
I love this time of year, the teacher shops fill up with fab offers and new pretty stock! I love the smell of new books and notebooks! I'm a nerdausoras I know! The need to buy school books, that urge to cover the books in brown paper and plastic is overwhelming and great! Can't beat august, its great for the shopaholics amongst us teachers :)
Next stop however is LImerick over the weekend...O Mahony's here I come! I wanna buy me a puppet, well its for TP2 and the junior classes but believe it or not the puppets are cheaper there then anywhere I've seen them yet! Also wanna spend some serious time in the school book section and the resource section....I may need to rob a bank I want to "invest" in so many books and games and puppets!
Any suggestions for type of Puppet I should invest in are greatly welcomed and def needed!!
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AND!! On the Fantasy Football side of life!
I got 31 points this week, gameweek 2 that is! Gavin got 26. Which means I won this weeks head to head!! I wonder what my treat is, I have his treat for last week all ready so.....I wonder I wonder! Im still second in the overall head to head league so I need to do better this week. The Almost Daily Sports Blog league however isn't looking so hot! I'm coming in 11th out of 12....not good. But Gavin is 9th so I haven't much to catch up on! I have the transfers done for the week and changed around the subs and all that so I'll cross my fingers and hope that it goes better this week :)
Wish me Luck!!
A little shopping tip guys! Easons....have gorgeous A4 hardback notebooks 3 for €6 really pretty colours to keep the concentration going! Also.....TESCO....Stabilo pens ten multicoloured ones for €3.59 a fantastic but if you're like me and need colours so you dont get bored taking notes! Like I do! Tesco also have reward stickers for €1.95 there are 300 stickers in a pack with animals facces and gold stars! Perfect for the junior classes!
I love this time of year, the teacher shops fill up with fab offers and new pretty stock! I love the smell of new books and notebooks! I'm a nerdausoras I know! The need to buy school books, that urge to cover the books in brown paper and plastic is overwhelming and great! Can't beat august, its great for the shopaholics amongst us teachers :)
Next stop however is LImerick over the weekend...O Mahony's here I come! I wanna buy me a puppet, well its for TP2 and the junior classes but believe it or not the puppets are cheaper there then anywhere I've seen them yet! Also wanna spend some serious time in the school book section and the resource section....I may need to rob a bank I want to "invest" in so many books and games and puppets!
Any suggestions for type of Puppet I should invest in are greatly welcomed and def needed!!
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AND!! On the Fantasy Football side of life!
I got 31 points this week, gameweek 2 that is! Gavin got 26. Which means I won this weeks head to head!! I wonder what my treat is, I have his treat for last week all ready so.....I wonder I wonder! Im still second in the overall head to head league so I need to do better this week. The Almost Daily Sports Blog league however isn't looking so hot! I'm coming in 11th out of 12....not good. But Gavin is 9th so I haven't much to catch up on! I have the transfers done for the week and changed around the subs and all that so I'll cross my fingers and hope that it goes better this week :)
Wish me Luck!!
Lilah bocht....Lilah Fucked
OK so I asked my better and sexier half to give you a fresh view of Hibernia from the Hibernia widows point of view.....I learnt loads!!! He's a FANTASTIC Google Elf!
However I have been absent from the blog for other reasons too.....I was on HOLS!! Gavin and I went back to Kerry for a few days R&R on the beach. It was fantastic! We BBQed and chilled out and read too much and watched various bits and pieces. Couldnt have been better. We even played crazy golf in the Aquadome in Tralee on the way home....I got a hole in one!!! Gaving still won but I am delighted with my Hole In One!! Woohoo Hellie!!
Disaster struck on our way home.....the road between Milstreet and Mallow is new and newly tarmaced. Its slippy. There are some horrible corners and I slowed right down coming into one but Delilah still slipped and went toward the on coming traffic.....PANIC! I had to struggle to pull her back toward the ditch and keep us from hitting oncoming cars. Instead Gavin and I ploughed into the ditch and head first into a road sign. We were able to walk away but still its not looking good for Delilah......Lilah Bocht
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On a rather different note for Hellie I decided to join Premier League Fantasy Football this season!! Check out my progress in the league with http://almostdailysports.blogspot.com/
I also have a Head to Head league with Gavin, hoping to beat him some weeks......I'm currently on 40 points this week while he's on 44.....only 4 between us and the Gameweek 2 starts tomorrow.......I will catch up!!
I'll keep you updated!!
However I have been absent from the blog for other reasons too.....I was on HOLS!! Gavin and I went back to Kerry for a few days R&R on the beach. It was fantastic! We BBQed and chilled out and read too much and watched various bits and pieces. Couldnt have been better. We even played crazy golf in the Aquadome in Tralee on the way home....I got a hole in one!!! Gaving still won but I am delighted with my Hole In One!! Woohoo Hellie!!
Disaster struck on our way home.....the road between Milstreet and Mallow is new and newly tarmaced. Its slippy. There are some horrible corners and I slowed right down coming into one but Delilah still slipped and went toward the on coming traffic.....PANIC! I had to struggle to pull her back toward the ditch and keep us from hitting oncoming cars. Instead Gavin and I ploughed into the ditch and head first into a road sign. We were able to walk away but still its not looking good for Delilah......Lilah Bocht
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On a rather different note for Hellie I decided to join Premier League Fantasy Football this season!! Check out my progress in the league with http://almostdailysports.blogspot.com/
I also have a Head to Head league with Gavin, hoping to beat him some weeks......I'm currently on 40 points this week while he's on 44.....only 4 between us and the Gameweek 2 starts tomorrow.......I will catch up!!
I'll keep you updated!!
A Fresh Perspective
Helen asked me to write this for you to give a rounded view of her time in Hibernia, a view from the other (half's) side I guess. I'm the Gavin she does mention every now and then, by the way.
You know the term golf widow? It refers to women whose husbands become obsessed with playing golf at the expense of spending time at home with their significant others. Well, in a similar vein, I'm a Hibernia widower. Myself, and I imagine hundreds of others, are the conduits for the wannabe teachers. We glue things to charts. We make things out of paper because if we can do it, surely 8 year olds can too. Or, in my case, we Google.
We don't mind helping out. If your lot are like my Helen then they're all determined to succeed and we do all we can to help 'em. Sometimes the help, like in the instances listed above, is material, and sometimes it's just a matter of letting them rant away and vent whatever's in their system to a sympathetic ear, and a convincing nod or two.
Those occasional nods became daily for about 3 weeks in May during the dreaded T.P.... they're fun at our end let me tell you! The work we do means that you'd best not plan to watch something on T.V., or go out or generally have a life! You've Googling to do boy, and woo-be-tied you if you forget it! I jest...mostly. At least it's all over, eh? What do you mean they've two more? :-/
As you've noticed, the Hibernia crowd are currently in the Gaeltacht in Dromad in Kerry, which is about 4156151651231568821340256 miles away from where i base myself in Galway. That means time away from my Hellie, but thanks to the internet and mobile phones, we still stay in touch as regularly as ever. You think she'd like the break, but no! The shoulder is still there when needed, as are the SMS x's and the Googling when necessary. Our work as supporters is akin to Santa's elves, but unlike them short fellas and they’re time off early in the year, our work, it seems never ends.
Still, it is all worth it and we don't grumble. Hibernia lasts for but eighteen months and every time a lesson goes well, or a grade is good or a supervisor gives some praise, we're happy for our other halves and feel glad that we were there to help out. The smiles on their faces make everything worth it. And they do thank us too: think not that the Hibernia crowd are an ungrateful lot, nothing could be further from the truth.
So the Gaeltacht ends this weekend, and after that we all have a month free of educationposts.ie, Helms, lesson plans and assignments and children in general. And by that I mean both the students and the widowers, who’ll also be taking a well-earned rest. I hope you all have a break planned. I know that Hellie and I will be spending most of next week on the beach, which I am looking forward to. I think that I, and all the other Hibernia widowers, deserve a treat. Make mine a Barbie and a pint honey!
You know the term golf widow? It refers to women whose husbands become obsessed with playing golf at the expense of spending time at home with their significant others. Well, in a similar vein, I'm a Hibernia widower. Myself, and I imagine hundreds of others, are the conduits for the wannabe teachers. We glue things to charts. We make things out of paper because if we can do it, surely 8 year olds can too. Or, in my case, we Google.
We don't mind helping out. If your lot are like my Helen then they're all determined to succeed and we do all we can to help 'em. Sometimes the help, like in the instances listed above, is material, and sometimes it's just a matter of letting them rant away and vent whatever's in their system to a sympathetic ear, and a convincing nod or two.
Those occasional nods became daily for about 3 weeks in May during the dreaded T.P.... they're fun at our end let me tell you! The work we do means that you'd best not plan to watch something on T.V., or go out or generally have a life! You've Googling to do boy, and woo-be-tied you if you forget it! I jest...mostly. At least it's all over, eh? What do you mean they've two more? :-/
As you've noticed, the Hibernia crowd are currently in the Gaeltacht in Dromad in Kerry, which is about 4156151651231568821340256 miles away from where i base myself in Galway. That means time away from my Hellie, but thanks to the internet and mobile phones, we still stay in touch as regularly as ever. You think she'd like the break, but no! The shoulder is still there when needed, as are the SMS x's and the Googling when necessary. Our work as supporters is akin to Santa's elves, but unlike them short fellas and they’re time off early in the year, our work, it seems never ends.
Still, it is all worth it and we don't grumble. Hibernia lasts for but eighteen months and every time a lesson goes well, or a grade is good or a supervisor gives some praise, we're happy for our other halves and feel glad that we were there to help out. The smiles on their faces make everything worth it. And they do thank us too: think not that the Hibernia crowd are an ungrateful lot, nothing could be further from the truth.
So the Gaeltacht ends this weekend, and after that we all have a month free of educationposts.ie, Helms, lesson plans and assignments and children in general. And by that I mean both the students and the widowers, who’ll also be taking a well-earned rest. I hope you all have a break planned. I know that Hellie and I will be spending most of next week on the beach, which I am looking forward to. I think that I, and all the other Hibernia widowers, deserve a treat. Make mine a Barbie and a pint honey!
Coming to a end at last
It’s the last week here in the Gaeltacht, thankfully!! I’ve enjoyed most of it but it is extremely hard to be away from home and everyone you love for 3 weeks....I’d imagine it’s worse for those with kids at home but I would say, without a shadow of a doubt there is no point bringing kids here. There is nothing for them to do, they can’t attend the class and very few of the social events so you end up not seeing them really and spending a fortune on childminders for 3 weeks. Just a little rant......
Bank holiday Monday was a wash out it rained constantly all day. We slept it out to begin with on Monday morning.....so we were late for the “ceolchoirm” that was organised.....it was all kids songs to teach in schools in irish so it would have been interesting to have seen it all. Ah well!! After lunch we had a tin whistle class, oh the noise level.....but it was a great way to avoid having to watch the Kerry Dublin match! Another washout Gavin tells me!
Its Tuesday now and we’ve spent the day at Derrynane House and beach in Caherdaniel. Not quite the highlight of our trip but it wasn’t too bad and the weather was miles better than any other day here! The beach was great fun some crazy people went swimming (I still have my sanity and didn’t try and catch frost bite) while others (ME!!) sat out in the sun chatting and enjoying the craic! We’ve a black and white session tonight, it sounds like we just all go in black and white clothes for no real reason other than to restrict us and attempt to give us a uniform!
The gaeltachts power trip has taken over and its scarey!!
Watch out, it’s worse then the modh conníollach!!!
Bank holiday Monday was a wash out it rained constantly all day. We slept it out to begin with on Monday morning.....so we were late for the “ceolchoirm” that was organised.....it was all kids songs to teach in schools in irish so it would have been interesting to have seen it all. Ah well!! After lunch we had a tin whistle class, oh the noise level.....but it was a great way to avoid having to watch the Kerry Dublin match! Another washout Gavin tells me!
Its Tuesday now and we’ve spent the day at Derrynane House and beach in Caherdaniel. Not quite the highlight of our trip but it wasn’t too bad and the weather was miles better than any other day here! The beach was great fun some crazy people went swimming (I still have my sanity and didn’t try and catch frost bite) while others (ME!!) sat out in the sun chatting and enjoying the craic! We’ve a black and white session tonight, it sounds like we just all go in black and white clothes for no real reason other than to restrict us and attempt to give us a uniform!
The gaeltachts power trip has taken over and its scarey!!
Watch out, it’s worse then the modh conníollach!!!
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