Monday June 8th Reflection

I often joke that my head is so full of knitting patterns I can’t fit any more information into it. But actually life can be like that can’t it? We carry so many burdens with us that we not only become weary, but we leave no room for the new – for the good stuff...

Friday June 5th Reflection

The new normal seems to have settled into our lives and made itself at home, so much so that I find it hard to imagine what my life looked like before lockdown. My life follows a new pattern and my role has been reshaped to work in such a time as this. Ironically it...

Thursday June 4th Reflection

“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” -Mark Twain One of the things that I have found most challenging during the first weeks of lockdown was...

Wednesday June 3rd Reflection

During the last few years in my career as a teacher we switched to purple pens of positivity to mark students work. At the end of the piece of work our policy was to give our students two stars and a wish – two things the student did well and something they...

Monday June 1st Reflection

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19   Before I became a Christian I always associated these words with a song by Boney M – By the rivers of Babylon – I am...