How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

Is he reading his lines from prompt cards, or is he still able to learn them?

Used to love going to Badminton when I was younger and lived nearby. I used to make a point of walking the entire course and seeing at least one horse at every jump.
Today however has been spent with a mob of y6 children and the y6 reading test. Need a long drink!

So sorry to hear this. I hope they manage to work out what is going on and improve things. X

Well, it's started fine : just booked tickets for the Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remain exhibition at the V&A !

Doubt it'll be as good as their Bowie exhibition of a few years ago but still going to the V&A is always a pleasure

Today I've appreciated the true value of learning from one's own lessons.

Comments of an ignorant and belittling nature from some would have caused me to bite back, just to prove a point that I'm not a pushover. But from experience I've come to understand that life really is too short to engage in futile behaviour. Partly, from the words of advice mods have given to others on here about not rising to the bait. It's just that for some their lives are worthless without having to ridicule others and their achievements.

Plus, I've nearly finished my research project which is due on Monday. Good times.

Went to the Giants-Mets (baseball!) game last night; my team lost, but it was a fun evening out. I'm pretty sleepy today, though!

Last night I went to see a local teenage drama group perform a physical theatre piece.  The kids were aged 12 - 18 and they chose to devise an extremely serious piece following a fictional Syrian young refugee arriving alone in England, after surviving certain horrors in her homeland.

It was truly inspirational.  Most of the kids (boys and girls) took a turn at playing the young girl, swapping a headscarf to make it clear whose turn it was.  A small injection of comedy was also appositely inserted and the whole thing made several members of the audience want to go home and do something for the refugees.  It was heavy and thought-provoking and it is wonderful that they were given the opportunity to do this. 

Started badly, had my faith in people restored by kind words from some on here

I have a washing machine repair man coming this morning - it's developed a small leak. Unfortunately I have the tiniest kitchen ever - I can't fit the fridge in it, and there's just enough room to stand between the sink and the washing machine on opposite walls. So last night my dad popped round and we dismantled the kitchen cabinet next to the washing machine (which fortunately wasn't the only thing holding the worktop up - though I'm not putting any weight on it until we get it properly supported) to create some access space to the back of it. I now have bits of kitchen cabinet and all my pots and pans in the spare bedroom.

Sod's law it'll turn out to be the door seal that's the problem.

Edit: it was the inlet hose - at the back - so the decision to demolish the kitchen cabinet was correct.

Sorry to read that Geoffrey Bayldon, aka Catweazle and the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge (amongst many other roles) has passed away aged 93: R.I.P.

I am also somewhat saddened to see that it's 21 years since Jon Pertwee passed away, at the rate time seems to be flying by, I'll soon be of the right age to play Catweazle myself...

Had a nasty twitter bully incident to round off my day. My twitter brings out the worst in people, and my academics can be the lowest of the low in that respect sometimes. First time a social media incident has left me genuinely scared and upset though. (I'm fine now)