Morning
Reuben's brekkie selection for topsy and bum on paranoia box for all.
Alarm just went off and woman's hour is on with annoying patronising woman going on about cancer and diet, blue green algae , magic mushrooms , it's not ok to eat chips, mars bars.......hmm Jennifer was humouring her. Underlying points about diet not wrong but as soon as people start being dogmatic I switch off. It was Sheila somebody or other? Though I went through a phase of being a bit extreme on diet so don't blame her. it is something you can do, when the treatment is such an assault. Friends and I spent a fortune on magic mushrooms but think other druggy ones would have done as much good 
Jenny mentioned Manchester study between nutritionists and oncys, might check that out. Not really what I want to hear first thing Jenny
Bit of a late night / early morning with little Copt being anxious but actually just needed a little reassurance. It is English and she has really enjoyed the syllabus and even the revision plus it is open book.
mas perhaps body is telling you it doesn't like it. I got to the point where I felt sick just driving past the hospital . But could be one of the bugs going around , I would check with your team.
Mmm white jacket in after prom party in field might be a bit of a risk. When I turned up at 4am to pick Big Copt up from her prom the pavement outside the door was a war zone, bodies everywhere and attention seeking drama queens staging mega dramatics. Most of them had great time without taking it too far, sure T will but you can't rely on the others, it can be a bit messy......
gigs very jealous of river cafe, DH booked it not long ago then decided it was too expensive 
he doesn't really enjoy expensive restaurants partly cos a lot of eating out with work so I don't get to enjoy them 
so I go with friends
malt I couldn't eat much at all in first weeks after diagnosis, which was most out of character.
Ned and all. Phonics thing sounds as mumbo jumbo as new policy on extra time for those with learning difficulties. Little Copt had an early intervention in Year 2 \3 because look /see was never going to work for her and learnt to read with phonics but used phonics and the sense of the sentence and context to arrive at a real word so she would not have passed, possibly not even now... I could also get started on what he did to last years GCSE cohort, all those pupils coming out of all the schools around here, state and private , tight lipped and holding back tears. Also new jingoism History curriculum, undoing all the good that has been done in the development of the teaching of History in the last thirty years my History Department is beyond angry specialising as it does in everything he is going to exclude, in fact most of the History now studied at universities is excluded from his silly curriculum so what sort of preparation will it be for university study, if that is , anyone has managed to stay interested in History after 11years of relentless chronology and facts..... But what would I know, I am clearly communist, and masters diss was on Chinese women in Shanghai in 20th c 
Exactly who does he think is going to be impressed with all this? I dont know anyone. maybe a few Colonel Blimps who sit at home reeking of stale wee whilst getting overexcited reading the daily mail and telegraph?
One thing though, it has united most people, quite rightly in support of our wonderful teachers and education professionals, appreciated all the more for being thrown into relief by people who clearly do not give a damn about children.
amber your school sounds very exciting. Is it a free school?