I am feeling quite flat this evening having come home to find an email from my cousin telling me that her dad had passed away. Even though this is something that will happen to us all it is always sad to loose a member of your family. I have no family members at all in this country (apart from Peter & the boys) but I have always kept in touch with my Canadian cousins and we still have fond memories of our visit to Canada nearly 30 years ago when we met most of my family members for the first time. Indeed one of the reasons for this blog is to keep far flung members of our family informed about the lives of the British branch.
It seems almost trite to rattle on about my day at work so here is only a brief post.
We went swimming and for once I remembered to take my camera so I can show what a (typically) grey day it has been. This was looking west from the New Bridge towards the sea.
In the other direction can be seen the River Taw and the incredibly ugly council offices building.
Further up the river is the Old Bridge and town behind.It was an extra late evening at school as we had a meeting for parents to explain/ discuss the way we teach reading. For 120 children (4 classes), 18 parents turned up. There were 4 of us class teachers there as well as the Headteacher and I got home from work at 8.45.
