Black Ice

Visited Ludlow. Bloody freezing, I had a cold coming on and it started to snow as we parked. We walked abround for ten minutes and then headed home….scared we would get trapped on Clee Hill in a snow drift. Snowed more when we got home.

After getting a lift to work on Wednesday I had to ride the bike again. This was a mistake as the main road was mostly black ice. Cars were skidding, getting angry because there was a queue…..I knew it was icy as my feet were slipping on the road. he bike stayed uprght…just….3 skids. When I got to work I had to walk around for a bit to calm down. I had lifts for the rest of the week.
Then half term.
Parents on the Sunday, as bad as usual ,the only good thing was we took our own sandwiches. The cloud of misery sort of lasted until Wednesday.

Oxford on Monday.
Park and ride with the abandoned grain store looming over the car park. Pitt Rivers was closed and so were 3 other museums we went to. Monday no good for Oxford.

Tuesday. Merry Hill. Jo’s monitor has the white stripe of death so she got a new one.
Bought Charlie Brooker’s book of his collected Guardian pieces. Laugh out loud funny, cheerily angry and intelligent.
Wrting my “why I want to be a teacher?” and in so doing become a grammar fascist.