iRant, iRave

And now the news…..

Not a great deal going on really. Teaching is good and my students are coming on nicely but I won’t ever being going into great detail about them (privacy and all that). I found that for some of them I’ve had to find very creative ways of teaching to find something that suits them (homework – tell me a story on your saxophone ) but at the same time it’s been very rewarding.

Having a quiet couple of weeks with it being Easter holidays and all. Seems odd to actually be sitting in the house all day again. I had a lesson with my good friend Omar Puente last week which was great. Had Rob’s family over on Saturday so made a huge chilli in the slow cooker which went down well and jelly with loads of fruit in it for pudding. Kiddy food is ace!

At the moment we’re trying to work out how much money we need to do various jobs round the house and garden. First is getting a base sorted for a shed which should be about £30 and a weekend for what we need to do. Then it’s the more expensive building a bigger patio, some walls and a fire pit/bbq.

This past weekend we started having fires at night in the garden, just dug a hole in the ground so that the wind was a little bit less of a problem. There’s an area of grassland close to our house where people just seem to dump stuff. My neighbour got new metal gates the other day and miraculously some old wooden gates appeared that same day. Really annoys me when people who seem to take pride in the appearance of their home don’t extend that same principal beyond their fences. today I found a smashed up picnic bench and a wooden frame of somekind that will do for kindling so the fires will burn on.

Have spent most of today  on my local Freecycle group trawling for anything that I can put to good use. Basically it’s people giving away thing they would have otherwise thrown out. Off to Horsforth to collect some pictures/frames in a little bit. So far I have got a set of portable Aiwa speakers (for rob to use with his laptop), a Sodastream (just need to find somewhere that does gas cylinders for them) and about seven or eight purple throws which make the futons in my livingroom look a lot better as well as somewhere to on at the fireside. Now just hoping I can get some stuff to help do the garden and a new compost bin since the lid blew off the Blackwall dalek in the last big storm a couple of months ago and was nowhere to be found (and evil Blackwall people say they don’t sell lids on their own and want to charge us more than three times what we paid for a new compost bin which will have the same problem).

Right I better go get these pictures/frames since rush hour is finished.