People often ask me why I dislike London so much. It’s the pretentiousness and arrogance of the place.
Take this morning. I received an email from the TDA trying to persuade me to get into teaching. It has announced its new pay rises for newly qualified teachers. From £20,627 to £20,155 marks a whopping 2.45% pay [...]
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Come To London
All Over
Well the exams have passed. Now it’s a waiting game for the results. It wasn’t a great exam. Everything I had studied on Monday had pretty much vanished from my short term memory… perhaps occupied by recent events. I relied on my long term memory which thankfully wasn’t too shabby as usual, so I should [...]
Back With A Vengeance
I have returned — I have fixed the problem I was having, which seemed more to do with my host than WordPress itself. A lot has happened since my last post.
I’ve been told that I have been rejected a place on the PGCE course, to my extreme annoyance. It seems the reason for declining my [...]
Let’s Play
Today was a peculiar day (mind, aren’t they all?!), largely down to the BUPA Great North Run. It reminded me of my desire to raise money for charity - making myself useful. Nick jokingly said I should cycle from London to Newcastle, which I did momentarily consider.
I courted the idea with a few friends, and [...]
Away Day
Well my dear readers, I shall be away to Japan tomorrow! Well… that is if you count getting the train from Newcastle to London ‘on the way to Japan’!
Part of this epic journey will be to navigate myself across London to get to Heathrow on the last tube. I realise there is an element of [...]
Unfair Cop
Well this has put me in a bad mood: in announcing the European leg of their tour, The Police neglected to visit Newcastle.
Not a mention is made that Sting has skipped his hometown, which seems peculiar but nonetheless, it seems the UK has done well with four whole dates, at London, Manchester, Cardiff and Birmingham. [...]
Cultural Learnings
A random conversation led to Waz suddenly asking me “Wanna come to Japan with me?”. I was initially rather dumbstruck! I haven’t seen Waz in just about 3 years now, which is really rather shocking!
The main stumbling block is cost. The cost of travel in fact. It will cost the best (read worst) part of [...]
M1A1
I left Newcastle fairly early on - the bus left Central Station at 7am. We made fairly good progress and stopped at Sheffield’s Meadowhall Interchange. Our bus had more people on than there has been whenever I’ve been on, so perhaps that is why we didn’t swap buses as per the usual rigmorale for the [...]