Even teachers with relatively few teacher days under their belts will be able to reel off the necessary ingredients of the average inset. First, allow roughly half an hour of largely mundane and superficial holiday-based chat such as: “Can you believe we’re back already?” “Did you go anywhere?” (Bear in mind that by ‘anywhere’ they […]
Month: August 2018
Last Night Nightmares – Dealing With Back To Work Blues
With weeks of holiday behind you, so many luscious meals, so much beautiful countryside, so many books and coffees, it’s hardly shocking that any of us are reticent to go back to the grindstone. Why is it that, no matter how much you love the job, the night before going back to school is one […]
Round Five: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Adult not YA)
This book is phenomenal. It’s easy to step into the oh-so-real world of Eleanor Oliphant, the office politics, the mundanity of the everyday, the desire for more… The characters are consciously well observed and created – I feel like I’ve met them all in so many places before. Their roles are laid out in so many […]
Round Four: The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder (Adult, not YA)
Having been lent this yonks ago, I’ve been feeling guilty about not reading it but, I’ll be honest, I find it hard to read fiction written for adults during term time. YA or novels I’ve read before, yes. Those I let myself read because I know that I can either finish them quickly or put […]