Chrissy Celebrations

Much to everyone's delight, Christian and Yuiko arrived to celebrate 30 year of Christian. Too much partying for some, but enjoyed by all.

Christian's 30th

Dunk and Riley try to pick up, but something gets lost in translation

Force Four

Brody hit his fourth birthday with the Force. Lightsabers and the Dark Side abound!

Easter Picnic

Who would't live here?

Another one for Bill

Duncan was getting quite frustrated with his computer the other day and burst out with "I just don't know what I'm going to do!"
"Don't say that Daddy," Brody comforted, "you know how to do lots of things."

Jugs for Art!

I don't consider myself a prude and I have seen a few things during my teaching career, but I still get a laugh some days, and still blush....

I allow students to listen to their iPods during class when they're working individually. Today, I noticed one boy was not working and also had the undivided attention of the two boys either side of him (already a red altert). I walk over to the boys and am gloriously presented with a set of jugs bouncing up and down on the mini screen of the portable porn port. "Hand it over." Rather than be embarrassed, the boy defends himself by saying that I am mistaken, it's not porn, but 'American Pie', making me somewhat more offended by the poor boy's lack of taste and his obvious resistance to any influence I may have had on his artistic development.

The poetic justice lies in a few consequences:
1. The boy's mother is the only person who will be allowed to collect the iPod from the principal (let's see who blushes now!)
2. The opportunity for this boy to see probably his first real breasts has been taken away from him - no Life model for that little chicken!

The Flower Theif

I am generally on the road by 6:30 every morning, which is the perfect time to catch joggers and power walkers out and about. These people keep a pretty regular regime and route, so it's no surprise that I get to see the same people with some consistancy. It has happened now on three occaisions that I have seen the same woman disguised as a morning walker powering along the road with a lovely bunch of cut flowers in one hand and a pair of secatures in the other. These are, to be sure, desperate times - water restrictions, climate change etc, but seriously??.....