Not a hard cheese suitable for melting but we recently discovered plant based Boursin - that is worth a taste! 😋

I hide ours in the loft!

A bottle of Moet and two champagne glasses.

Just because!

Yep!

Day 1 of arriving in the dark and leaving in the dark completed. 34 more to go before Christmas!

A toadstool in woodland

A dog enjoying the woods - mainly beech trees with a layer of leaves on the ground.

Our school dog - Jessie (A St. Bernardoodle) looking very proud on completing her longest walk yet.

The Boar War Memorial at the top of Coombe Hill.

A walk up Coombe Hill with the school dog. As we reached the top the clouds descended and the described stunning view of the Chiltern Escarpment is still but a mystery!

Got to be 🩷 to start the holiday!

💚

🩵 can’t resist some alliteration!

A diya lamp

Happy Diwali! 🪔

Jessie, our school dog. She is a black and white St Bernadoodle.

Our school dog is proving as good for staff wellbeing as she is for supporting the children!

A circle of conkers with a torch in the middle

Same conkers manoeuvred into a spider shape with two torches in the middle.

Year 6 residential. The boys are performing a spider ritual before bed. 🕷️ 🕷️🕷️🕷️

Americano and a mini donut.

Fuel to help with today’s task. Helping my wife find an outfit for our niece’s wedding.
She hates shopping.
She really hates clothes shopping.
Wish us luck!

A burning candle with the caption my son’s bedroom smells like shit candle.

A fitting scented candle for this evening…
He claims he has cleaned today; we are unsure of which minuscule part of his bedroom he is referring to!

IAMCompliant - it is fab!

👍🏻

I’m as surprised as you! Although they are soft leather so wondering if that’s the reason why.

Pale pink Dr Martens.

New DMs for a new academic year and no blisters after day one!

Apples, plums and walnuts

I love autumn foraging. #autumn

2 down, 193 to go!
(I do love my job really 😉 but today was a bit of a day!)

Brixton Village - a maze of great food and little independents with traditional grocers and fishmongers.

Windrush mural

Jerk chicken wings and cod fritters with lime and chilli aioli

Brewdog Waterloo - bowling alley, bramble gin and tonic, Yellow Pale Ale and coke.

Our last hurrah of the summer! #summerholiday #familyfun #food

A view of Green fields, trees, hills beyond a blue sky with white fluffy clouds.

Heather, fern and brambles in the forefront, hills in the distance and an increasingly dramatic sky (5 mins before the heavens opened!)

Leith Tower at the top of Leith Hill.

Box Hill stepping stones

An early start to beat the rain; a fabulous walk in the Surrey hills.

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.

No refugee underfunded a school.

No refugee closed a hospital.

No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.

We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

😱😱😱

🙏

One of them, yes. We have a contingency! Not so much the others - I’m still being told they will be fine by Tuesday 🫤.

Post it notes with the words ‘Everything is absolutely, completely, totally under control.’

This is what I’m trying to tell myself as I walk around school looking at 3 half finished building jobs. 😬

I need this kind of positivity in my life!

It has really been a day of emotions.
Awaiting GCSE results for my boy 🤢
Our boy sharing his GCSE results with us 🥰
Bad news on my Dad’s cancer 😢
Dropping my boy off at Reading festival 😬