Project 366 : Photo diary week 49

I know I said this last week but THIS week, fingers crossed, life should definitely start calming down. The translation is finished (again ! They added a couple more documents after I sent them all over last time *sigh*), the school reports are filled in, there are only two more class meetings then we're into the final week before the holidays. Thank goodness for that ! Sophie has made it back home for Christmas too so she'll be with us for the next month. In short, all is well here at The Madhouse !

Sunday 29th November - The confinement was lifted this weekend and the shops opened up again, so we decided to head into town for a look around. We managed to get a few more Christmas presents sorted out. Is it just me being all bah humbug or are these baubles just too big for the size of the Christmas trees ?! Some of the trees have literally one bauble on. Maybe it's artistic and I'm missing the point ?!

Monday - A morning at work, then I came home for lunch, had a few hours at home (just enough time to fold the laundry) then had to dash back to work for my class meeting. It started at 4.45pm but I had another one back-to-back so I didn't get home until about 8pm. This was the moon peeking out of the clouds on the way home. Too late for walking the dog tonight. I cooked up some dinner then we all settled down for a quick bit of TV then bed.

Tuesday - A normal day at work - nothing special to report ! Back at home, checking my blog comments, there is something very weird going on. I keep getting spam comments for a dating/sex website. Nothing unusual about that but they are all coming through on this old post for a New Zealand recipe for bacon and egg pie. Why would that attract spammers?! I'm totally confused ! I must have deleted about 30 comments on this post over the last few weeks ! I must be missing something !

Wednesday - After a morning at work, I decided to make the most of the afternoon to clear the last of the translation. First, I had to chase it up with the person who wrote the document as they guy who wants it translating has still failed to send it. I know he's busy but so am I ! Grrrr ! I also started wrapping up Christmas gifts in case anyone starts peeking ! 

Thursday - They've started adding more decorations to the town centre. They add a splash of colour but it's nothing like the usual Christmas market, big wheel and free skating rink that are usually here. It's going to be a strange old Christmas this year !

Friday - A long day of lessons, topped off with an after-school meeting, so I was totally knackered when I got home from school. It was about 7.15 so not that bad. This was a quick shot on the way to work in the morning. Reflection of the sky from the bus stop.

Saturday - I will be honest, I wasn't sure she'd make it and I had visions of her being turned back at Dover, but Sophie made it home. Yay! This was a picture she sent from the train next to The Shard at dawn. She was knackered (as was I, from my week at work) so we both ended up having an afternoon nap - oops !

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The translation is finished, the school reports are finished and I've even done half of the class meetings (two left to go). Thank goodness for that ! Now I need to give the house a good clean and get the Christmas tree up ! Two weeks to the holidays - phew ! We've started our Christmas shopping but I still have lots to sort out for Christmas too. How are you doing with all the plans? It's going to be a weird one this year ! Well, let's have a look at this week's freebies - maybe there will be some festive goodies up for grabs ?!

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What's Cooking At The Madhouse ? menu plan week 48

This week is going to be a busy week, with after-school meetings meaning I get home not just late but also knackered. Not good when faced with hungry kids ! Maybe Juliette will sort out food before I arrive (or maybe not !) Hmm, I think I need to plan on quick food this week.

Monday

lunch-  there is leftover kebab meat from our cheeky Saturday night takeaway - that should be good warmed up in a sandwich or wrap with some salad

dinner - there are also leftovers from our Sunday lunchtime raclette - potatoes, ham/salami and stinky raclette cheese. The kids can even throw it in the microwave before I get home, if they get too hungry.

Tuesday

dinner- sausages, eggs and mash - and I have to leave the eggs runny enough to dip the sausages in !

Wednesday

lunch- fish, rice & peas

dinner- chicken tacos

Thursday

lunch - spicy creamy chicken with pasta

dinner- pizza

Friday

dinner - spaghetti carbonara (or leftover bolognese) for Pierre, Spanish omelette for me & Juliette

Saturday

lunch-  fingers crossed, Sophie will be arriving home about lunchtime - I have no doubt we'll end up with a celebratory takeaway !

dinner- whatever we picked up in Lidl - I could make a cottage pie, maybe?

Sunday 

lunch- roast chicken, roast potatoes, veg & lashings of gravy

dinner- leftovers or toast

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Project 366 : Photo diary week 48

This time last week, I was happily telling you that I'd finished off the big translation job and sent it all off for the Norway project. Then on Monday, I got an email. "Sorry, I've just found two more documents that need translating." *Sigh* Well, I've made a start on those but this week's job was filling in the end-of-term reports. The "conseils de classe" kick off this week - each class (I have seven classes - five main classes and two groups) has a meeting that lasts about an hour to an hour and a half, all after school. At least it's almost the holidays once they're over !

Sunday 22nd November - Just a lazy day, taking some time to chill out. Caught up with my family on the phone and Sophie on Facebook, then headed out for a walk with the dog and Juliette. This is what we have to fill out every time we go outside during the confinement. You have to put in all your ID details (name, address, date of birth, place of birth), the date and time and the reason for going out. Then you sign it and this pops up, giving you an hour's time outside. If you're stopped by the police without one, you get a fine (€125, I believe). It's fairly quick to fill out but it's a pain if you just need to pop to the corner shop !

Monday - It's my afternoon off so I had an appointment with someone about changing the boiler and all the government help that is available. They were cold callers who had phoned me and it actually fitted in with my current plans so I said OK. They said they'd come at 2pm, then phoned back and asked if they could come at 1pm. I said that would be a bit tight for getting home from work but 1.30 would be OK. Well guess what? They never showed up ! Blooming gits ! I waited in for about an hour then gave up. I went shopping in Lidl and ... ta-da ... they finally had some tinned tomatoes in. Yay ! They haven't had any for the last three weeks so I stocked up. I've been craving spaghetti bolognese and lasagne and chilli con carne and all those things that need tomatoes !

Tuesday - It's been feeling a bit nippy this week, so when I saw all these birds lined up on the roof opposite our house, I wondered if they were getting ready to emigrate. Either that or their loft insulation is rubbish and they were warming up their feet !

Wednesday - It's my afternoon off and I cleared lots of school work then chilled out online for a while. This website popped up in my facebook page and gave me a giggle. It's people who asked a photo editor to tweak their photos (in this one for example, the boys all want to be the same size) and he does all the changes quite literally. Some of them made me laugh ! It's here if you fancy a look.

Thursday - Usually I come home and catch up with the kids at lunchtime on Thursdays, as I finish at 11am and start again at 2.30pm. This week, though, I decided to stay in school and carry on filling in my school reports. I managed to get most of them done. Just one class left - phew !

Friday -  Finally the end of the week. And I even grabbed the time in my lunch break to finish off my reports. Yippee ! As you know by now, Friday afternoon finishes off with my naughty class (their last hour and mine). This week, one pupil was excluded, awaiting his "conseil de discipline", in which it will be decided if he gets kicked out of school or given a final chance. Then - completely unexpected good news ! - another of the troublemakers was called to give his books back because he's changing schools. This is great news as it will totally change the dynamics of the class. Phew ! I got home just in time to see the sunset with lots of birds flapping around in the sky.

Saturday - This was Pierre's breakfast that he made and proudly came to show me. Three slices of bread in a double-decker Nutella sandwich ! And he ate every mouthful then even finished his lunch not that long afterwards ! This actually gave me the idea of making double decker cheese on toast - hmmm, I might have to give that a go !

 

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Fab freebies of the week 28/11

 

Stop the world, I wanna get off ! I am absolutely knackered ! I feel like I've spent the last few weeks just running around, trying to clear through a backlog of work - if it's not marking, it's filling in reports and then there's the big translation job to finish off too. Add on top of that Christmas shopping, plus all the end-of-term class meetings about to kick off next week and I am absolutely pooped ! But it's the weekend, so I'm looking forward to chilling out, clearing some of the jobs off of my to-do list and catching up on sleep ! Hope you have something nice planned. Here's this week's freebies for you to peruse :)

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What's Cooking At The Madhouse ? menu plan week 47

This week, we stayed on plan most of the time, although I still didn't get to make corned beef hash as I was using up leftovers. Right now, I'm so knackered I'd be happy to eat nothing but sandwiches all week ! I don't think the kids would be happy though ! Juliette is studying from home next week (it's her turn for "week off" at school) so she might even take over on the food front, if I'm lucky. I doubt it though so I'm going for quick options !

Monday

lunch-  spaghetti bolognese

dinner - sausage rolls, mash and peas

Tuesday

dinner- chicken pie (chicken, mushrooms, gravy, carrots, peas) with rice

Wednesday

lunch- Quiche lorraine, boiled potatoes and salad

dinner- I have some stand 'n' stuff tortilla shells so something like fajitas with rice

Thursday

lunch - I'm thinking there will be leftovers

dinner- Battered fish, couscous & ratatouille

Friday

dinner - right, third time lucky ! - corned beef hash

Saturday

lunch-  spaghetti carbonara

dinner- pizza

Sunday 

lunch- raclette (melted cheese, potatoes, ham/salami, etc, gherkins)

dinner- toast or leftovers

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Project 366 : Photo diary week 47

This week could be summed up in one word : busy ! On top of sorting out the car and finishing off the translation (phew !), we finally started tackling Christmas shopping. We got a lot done, but I definitely don't feel like I've had a weekend so I'm not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow ! I haven't even had the time to do any blogging all week. Hopefully I can catch up this week ! :)

Sunday - A nice quiet day. Well, in theory ! I cleared another one of the translation documents so, once I'd got through the laundry (washing one load and folding another) and had a shower, I didn't even have the time or energy to phone home this weekend. Not good ! A strange sunset today, with pink-tinged clouds hanging in the sky above a strip of pale blue. It probably means something but I am not Wincey Willis, alas !

Monday - After a morning at work, I dashed home and sorted out lunch, then the neighbour came and picked up the car to take it in for its MOT. Pierre was feeling ill - he'd spent all morning thinking he was going to be sick and wondering if he'd be allowed to take his mask off if he did (he even asked his teacher !) so I told him he could stay at home for the afternoon. After a bit of a sleep, he felt better - phew ! The neighbour brought the car back. There'd been a problem - he couldn't accelerate. It turns out, the filter that he'd swapped over beforehand had a problem (they'd all been called back) so he put in a new one and will take back the car on Thursday. I'll have to sort out the insurance again. (It's only insured in the garage, as it's never usually out on the road.) Dashed off to the shop, passing by the town hall. In theory, this will be transformed with Christmas decorations next week.

Tuesday - A busy day at work so no news to share today. I headed in to the kitchen at bedtime, as Juliette was sorting out her hot water bottle. She'd plonked the dog on the counter while she waited for the kettle to boil and the silly thing was just sitting there waiting. I shook my head at her and at him for putting up with her ! (Can you see all the dust in my oven door? I have no idea how to get it out as it's in between two glass panels with a narrow gap between them and there's no way in there. Even the vacuum cleaner nozzle won't fit - I've tried ! Any suggestions ?!)

Wednesday - Morning at work, afternoon chilling out at home. In my dreams ! Dashed off to the supermarket for some school bits (pens, paper, glue, ...) for Pierre and Juliette that needed replacing. It's a pain now that most of the shops are shut with coronavirus restrictions, as I have to go further afield. They've got their Christmas decorations up at the supermarket now though, which is nice - the illuminated reindeer looks lovely and festive. It's actually made me realise just how close Christmas is !

Thursday - Another busy day at work. Came home for lunch and let the neighbour in so that he could take the car out of the garage and drop it off (again !) for the MOT. This time it came back with a clean bill of health - phew ! Absolutely knackered so I didn't bother doing the translation this evening and chilled out in front of Netflix instead. I've started watching The Crown, which is quite interesting, but I have no idea how truthful it all is. I didn't realise that the Queen and Prince Philip were looking at divorce in the early days. They always seem quite cosy with each other these days ! Juliette played around with her phone camera and took this fish-eye picture of her and the dog !

Friday - My late start to the day - I don't have to leave home until just after 10am. After getting the kids off to school at 7am/7.30am, I headed back to bed with my laptop and chilled out - bliss ! It was nice to get up after the sun for once - I'm normally heading off to the bus-stop at 7am when it's still dark. Another big run in with the "naughty" class. I picked them up after the afternoon break and one of the troublemakers was totally stressed out (he'd had a run-in with another one of the troublemakers and "couldn't take it any more" ...) and the liaison officer (almost like a social worker - she deals with all the problems outside of school, linked to the pupils' families, that have a link to how they are at school) told me things couldn't go on like this, she'd spent the whole break reassuring the girls who were in tears because there had been a fight in an earlier class. Took them up to the classroom, had a good shout at them (because they were all hyperactive and not at all concentrating on the lesson) and actually had a pretty good class with them. Just at the end of the lesson, the headmaster and deputy headmistress came to the classroom - things will not be left to go on like this, changes will be made as from next week, all the troublemakers had better change their ways extremely quickly or measures will be put in place to solve the problem radically. Oo-er, I don't even know what they'd done ! Another evening off, chilling in front of Netflix - my brain is frazzled !

Saturday - I know, you can't even see what this picture is, but it's my translation folder with all of the files completed - at last ! Yippee ! Sent it off to the team in Norway. Now I can just forget about it - phew ! Had a lazy day to celebrate - chatted to Sophie online, went food shopping, walked the dog and watched Ghost Adventures on TV. Bliss :)

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Fab freebies of the week 21/11

 

What with work and crashing through the big translation job when I get home and sorting the car out for its MOT, this week has been very full-on. I'm starting to feel in need of a holiday but we have a few busy weeks to get through first. Oh well, let's start the weekend off in style, with this week's roundup of the best freebies. Hope you find something you like :)

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You can see previous weeks' freebie roundups by clicking here but be warned, many of the offers are only valid for a short time. Let me know if any have expired and I'll remove them from the roundup.

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What's Cooking At The Madhouse ? menu plan week 46

Well ... last week I went totally off plan, but it isn't my fault ! I went shopping on Tuesday and they were clearing out the meat/fish aisle in preparation for the bank holiday, I suppose. It was all short-dated though so I worked through everything that I bought, ignoring the menu plan. I'll catch up this week and list what I made last week in brackets, just in case you want a little nose at what we ate !

Monday

lunch- leftovers

dinner - chicken, red peppers and pasta (with cream? - it's basically a use-up-whatever's-lurking-in-the fridge dish !)

Tuesday

dinner- chicken burgers, ebly & ratatouille (we had creamy, spicy prawns with couscous last week)

Wednesday

lunch- pork paupiettes & pasta (we had leftover beef stew last week)

dinner- Slow cooker pineapple chicken with rice (we had chilli con carne last week)

Thursday

lunch-  spaghetti bolognese (leftover chilli last week)

dinner- Battered fish, wedges & peas (smoked salmon in cream with pasta last week)

Friday

dinner - corned beef hash (veal stew last week)

Saturday

lunch-  beefburgers, rice & grilled tomatoes (leftovers last week)

dinner- pizza

Sunday 

lunch- ribs, rice & coleslaw (beef stew last week)

dinner- cheese on toast or leftovers

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Project 366 : Photo diary week 46

 This week could be summed up in one word : work ! In fact, that pretty much sums up the weekend too. I've been asked to translate all the reports for the Norway project from French to English, so that's 10 times about 6-10 pages to get through - eeek ! I hit it hard this weekend, as I know things will get busier at school in the upcoming weeks near the end of term, so I did one report yesterday, one this morning and one this afternoon. There are only two left to slot in somewhere this week now - thank goodness for that ! I have to admit, when I've been seeing people online moaning about being in confinement, I did think to myself that I quite fancy a quiet few weeks, dealing with everything from the comfort of my own home without heading out into the cold and the dark and the rain and the wind every morning ! Who knows what will happen though? We'll see. This is probably just me feeling sorry for myself as Juliette has been on a week-off this week (in her new week on-week off timetable to reduce numbers in class). It'll be a shock to the system going back to school tomorrow for her ! 

Sunday - I knocked up a beef stew in the slow cooker today, with beef, carrots, onions and ... a tin of cherry tomatoes ! I didn't even know you could buy tinned cherry tomatoes, but they are currently the only tinned tomatoes available. I usually head to Lidl and they haven't had any for the last two weeks, so when I popped to Carrefour, to grab a Sodastream gas cannister, I decided to head to the tinned tomatoes aisle. They were completely out too, except for five tins of cherry tomatoes. Well, I grabbed three of them. They're good enough !

Monday - After a morning at work, I had to dash back home , grab a quick bite to eat, brush my teeth then dash off to the dentist's. I was the only one there - they put one appointment every half an hour so the whole place is empty. The receptionist took my coat, opened the door to let me in the waiting room and then shut it behind me. There was one chair and an empty table - it's usually covered in magazines. It felt very strange, almost like being in prison or in solitary confinement ! Anyway, she replaced my filling that fell out back in the summer - at last ! Back home and the neighbour was busy swapping over the car battery that he'd gone and picked up for me. The next minute, broom ! It was working again ! Looked up the price online and he's going to help me sell it (he's a mechanic and is used to buying up old cars, repairing them then selling them on so he knows what he's doing ... unlike me !). He organised the MOT too so that's next Monday (well, tomorrow, by the time you're reading this !) - it's all go here ! After he'd finished, I cleared some of the translation. It's a totally grey day, raining on and off all day. Yuck !

Tuesday - As tomorrow is a bank holiday, I did a quick dash to Lidl after work for some shopping as I'm not sure if it's open tomorrow or not. They were clearing out pretty much all of the meat/fish section, so I grabbed loads of things that we don't normally buy - prawns, two lots of smoked salmon, veal, stewing beef, ... Juliette wanted the prawns straight away so I cooked them up with some cream, onions and spices and served it with couscous. Ten minutes and dinner was on the table. Can't get quicker than that !

Wednesday - A bank holiday and I had nothing planned - phew ! I cleared some more of the translation and caught up on washing. This is one of the big spiders that lurks in our kitchen. I keep throwing them out of the door but there always seems to be one. Juliette absolutely hates them (well, I can't say I'm overly keen either !). At the end of the afternoon, a plumber (friend of the neighbour) came round to give us a quote for changing the boiler. He suggested going for a "pompe à chaleur", which I think translates as a heat pump. It's a lot more expensive but there are lots of bonuses available from the government so I need to look into it. I asked for a quote for a normal boiler too, to compare.

Thursday - Back to school. I couldn't even head home for lunch with Pierre (and Juliette this week) as I had meetings for the naughty kids, along with their parents, other teachers and the headmaster. Hopefully it'll do some good ! Sophie is looking at coming home for Christmas in a couple of weeks (blimey, I didn't realise it was coming around so quickly !) so I grabbed some advent calendars as our first nod towards Christmas ! It was buy one, get one half price so I had to get one for me too - hee hee hee !

Friday - Friday is my lazy day, when I don't start until 11am ... well, except for today, as I had more meetings with the naughty pupils and their families from 9.30am - boo ! I shoved some meat, potatoes, carrots and leeks in the slow cooker and left it to work its magic while I was at work !

Saturday - A day of working on the translation, clearing a few odd jobs around the house and watching some Netflix - I've just started watching The Crown. I'm only on series one and everyone is talking about series four coming out, so I need to catch up ! This dingy photo of the sun starting to set is about 4.30pm - aaagghhh ! I hate it when it's already dark when I come out of work !

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