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100 Word Challenge for Grown ups – Week #50

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Welcome to Week 50. We should be celebrating our golden anniversary. As it is summer here in the UK we could write about the weather as it is the middle of summer so the sun will be around – yes? No!! The prompt is:

… the rain turned the road into a river…

You have 100 words to add to the prompt making 108 in total. Please don’t split the prompt and remember to make a link back here so that others can find us.

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  1. Saturation
  2. Annual Flood
  3. Toward the Unknown
  4. The First Road
  5. A Stranger in Floodtown
  6. Veronica’s Garden
  7. Sin City
  8. Grief
  9. Relief at Long Last
  10. Storm
  11. Bridge Memories
  12. American Gothic
  13. …the rain turned the road..
  14. Where? How?
  15. …and the rains came…
  16. River of Tears – Dancing
  17. THE RAIN!
  18. Neither Hell nor High Water
  19. New Mum Online
  20. Flooded Path
  21. Rain
  22. A Deluge of Biblical Proportions
  23. Living, Libraries & (dead) Languages
  24. Ablogdog
  25. Best Birthday
  26. Yet I Continued
  27. Bizarre I Tell you!
  28. drip drop
  29. Africa Inspired
  30. Rain – Mrs Teepot
  31. Limebird Writers
  32. Covenant
  33. When it rains it pours
  34. Morton Fisher
  35. Adventures of a Young Boy
  36. The Day of the Sewer
  37. Mummy Lion
  38. Craig Towsley

Last Week I Learnt That…#36

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  • Staying up for 21 hours makes you tired. We went ‘up North’ and really should have stayed over.
  • Children exhaust you. I visited a school in Bolton and spent the day popping into classes to talk about 100 Word Challenge. I didn’t have to do anything other than talk to them and let them ask me questions but they didn’t stop talking! I had forgotten what it is like to be in their company and how much energy they each have. I’m still trying to work out how ‘How old are you?’ will help with their creative writing!
  • Buying a cheap version of something often leads to more expense. During my visit to Bolton, I gave out some badges I had made. They were stuck onto labels ( I couldn’t work out the sizes to print directly on them) but had used a cheap glue stick. Result? Labels in pieces.
  • Wet playtimes never change. As a head teacher I was used to the effect of the rain when children should have been out playing but were consigned to the classroom. Teachers are constantly looking skyward to see if there will be any respite so that they can get that much needed coffee.
  • My husband is stubborn. Now this is not something that I learnt just last week but it was definitely confirmed again! As regular readers will know he suffers with OCD (see ‘Rear View Mirror Angst’). This means that he has certain routines that have to be followed. So, with it being Spring (yes, I read it was spring in a newspaper so it must be true!) he has sorted out his clothes. This consists of putting long sleeved tops away and bringing out short sleeved items. Now this is OK in principle when the weather is playing fair and doing what it is supposed to do but when everything it completely muddled it can cause friction. He wore a short sleeved top that was quite thin into the bargain on a day when Noah would not have been out of place with his Ark! Result? Hubby has a chill!
  • Planning for a holiday is exciting. Even at my ripe old age the thought of travelling to a new destination is so special. We are off to New York soon (see ‘New York, New York!’)and I’m so excited I can’t start to plan. Does that make sense? You know when you have a butterfly head with so many things to think about. I need to really concentrate and start thinking about packing and where we want to visit.
  • Resignation is sometimes the only way to get things done. I resigned my position as Chair of a Federation of schools (see ‘Governors – Friend or Foe?‘). Interestingly, it seems to have sparked some action from other members of the Governing body and the Local Authority so maybe it wasn’t in vain!

A busy week with lots of travel in it! How was yours? Did you go anywhere? 

Last Week I Learnt That …#28

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  • I like rain! I found it very comforting when I heard it falling this week. There is no doubt that my system has been completely up-turned with the unseasonal weather we have had for quite a while. I think I may need to do some research on other climates so that I’m ready for the different ‘non-seasonal’ times.
  • It is good when you can make your children proud! We always talk about how proud we are of our children but I have never really thought about it the other way round. I certainly wouldn’t have expected it once I had retired but this week during our weekly chat, my son said he was amazed at all the things I was doing and was very proud of me. My chest (which was not small to begin with) is a couple of sizes larger!
  • Virtual is OK but sometimes ‘hard-copy’ is best! You’ll remember my joy last week when I shared with you my ‘publication’ ?Well my hard copy arrived & it looks brilliant!
  • Being on the other side of the table can be hard. We are appointing an Executive headteacher for our new federation. I have been involved in all the arrangements for the day including questions, tasks and presentations. I’m finding more stressful than when I was applying for posts because there is so much that could go wrong and spoil the experience for the candidate! I will enjoy a glass of something after it I’m sure!
  • Finance is boring. To be truthful, this was not something I learnt from scratch this week. I’ve always known it but had hoped that being retired and volunteering to go along would make it better. It didn’t! Why is it that one of the key things to a school’s success is so dry and uninspiring? I do hope there is a financial reading this who can point me in the direction of excitement and enthusiasm for finance because I’ve got quite a lot of it to do. Any takers?
  • Friday evening is KING! I may have mentioned this before but it needs saying that whoever invented Friday evenings was a marvel. Even now when I am not going to work I still love that time when mentally as well as physically I can switch off. I am very busy at the moment so still get that sense of ‘you have earned this’ that comes along at the end of the week. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that we go to the pub as well!!:)

 Interviews, finance, rain – quite a mix. How was your week?