Project 366 : Photo diary week 40

 What a blooming week ! I've been rushing around like a mad thing all week and this weekend ended up being a total nightmare, with the heating going wrong again today. Two weeks to the school holidays and I am absolutely ticking off the days. I need to chill out, sort out things around the house and start feeling in control of everything again. Right now, I feel like I'm skimming along on the surface, trying to stay afloat ! :-/

Sunday 27th September - A lazy day, sorting out the laundry, catching up with lesson planning and chilling out. As you can see from our evening walk, at the same time as usual, the nights are drawing in. The sunsets are long gone by the time we start strolling back home, contrary to a few weeks ago. It's starting to get dark now. Yuck !

Monday - Monday is my half day at school so I dash home for lunch, cook something quick to share with Pierre then, after waving him off back to school, I get some chill out time. Well, in theory. It usually ends up being my day to sort out all the little jobs that need doing. This afternoon, I had a big to-do list to get through, phoning around making appointments. First of all, I got on to the plumbing/heating company for our annual visit for the boiler and to sort out why our heating won't turn on. Luckily, it hasn't been too cold up to now. They're snowed under with work so the annual visit will be in November, but they'll come to check out the heating on Wednesday. I made an appointment at the dentist's, then headed off to the town hall to sort out the paperwork for renewing Pierre's ID card. A quick dash to the supermarket and that was it. The kids were already on their way home and I needed to sort out dinner. A quick spaghetti carbonara was all they were getting today !

Tuesday - Just a normal day at school, followed by dinner and a walk with the dog. I spent the evening watching Jack Whitehall's Travels With My Father in a Netflix party with Sophie. He makes me laugh but I can never work out if his father is really as bad as he makes out or if a lot of it is put on.

Wednesday - After a morning at work, I rushed home and made a quick lunch as we had an appointment with the heating man. He was pencilled in at some point between 2-5pm but actually showed up pretty quickly, around 2.30pm. He showed us what the problem was - the water level had dropped in the boiler and I needed to twist a tap to add water to bring the black needle back up in line with the red one. Simple ! He said it shouldn't need doing very often but if it did need doing, this what what I had to do. The heating started working fine again and I went round venting all the radiators to get the excess air out. Sorted !

Thursday - I had a meeting after work about my form group and which pupils need extra help. Five out of twenty two pupils have files that will be written up, giving them extra help with homework and in class so that they can catch up on their basic skills. There are usually only about two pupils maximum per class, so we think this is a result of all the time they missed out on school last year. When I got home, Juliette was happy to have been the first to arrive home for once and had made some cookies to celebrate !

Friday - Usually I start at 11 o' clock on a Friday, but today, I had been called in on overtime to help out with our year 6 (11-year-old) pupils who had a half-day activity involving all things internet and screen time. It's always quite shocking hearing them talking about what they play (GTA seems to be pretty run of the mill - I can't really say anything as I do let Pierre play Fortnite !) and there are always one or two per class who stay up until 2 or 3am playing video games. I used to think they were showing off and making it up but maybe they're not ? This would explain why they can't concentrate in class. By the time I got home, I was ready for dinner, then chilling out in front of the TV for a while. The only photo I took was this cool shot of the moon peeking through a hole in the clouds when I let the dog out !

Saturday - We headed into town for McDonald's then some shopping. Pierre got a phone case and Juliette bought a new coat. I headed into a shop to swap over our Sodastream gas cannister and the kids found some more things to buy in the reduced section - a new mirror for Juliette, some new bedding for Pierre (he's finally outgrown all his bedding with animals and cartoon characters on !) and various other bits and bobs. When we got home, Juliette decided to help out by sorting out the patio, finally emptying the paddling pool and cleaning off the paving stones. She had fun collecting all the snails and placing them on the window panes. She's such a big kid !

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