So this is my 6th annual rundown, and here is the year of 2008.

Inviting, 2 RMs, The Big Write Launch, The Mystery of the Miscreant Mayor, 20 pages of form, Unreasonable parents and a sister, Super Paper Mario, Engagement, Hypnotherapy, Ring Drama, Hamsterz, Becoming an AST, Being a surprising teacher, Pointless courses with the Learning Nazi, Impulse Buying a flat, All the doctors in the town on staff training, SATs, poaching eggs, becoming a driver, what a liar, SENcocks, Pipe World, Always love, Phoenix Wright, Major Realisation with a touch of memory loss, the Dove Sex Den, Project: Maths, the first visit, ShakeAtHome, Neverending Searches, Floor targets, Amazing Technical Dreamcoats, Goodbye 6M, the LA review, sudden goodbyes, double 1, Exchange-Complete-Move, Chef Off, Pipkin, Glasses, Ikea, Impressing Ros, Transition, Summer School, the New 6M, Myrtle Bungee, Administrative Skills Teaching, Take it seriously, 3 hours of anger, Ofsted, the extended 6M, shipwreck, Caribbean, hermaphrodite bunny, 6 hours for maths, free course, 4, lack of retention, neverending catchup, cupcakes, being 25, Xmas dinner, wedding excitement, fat club.

All the best for 2009. xx

So here we are! The end of 2007. I think I've had a pretty good year altogether. I'm hoping 2008 will be even better though!

My fifth annual rundown - 2007.

Secrets, Maths Resources, Pub Nights, Tears, How to do an assembly in an hour and a half, Teaching ball skills without balls, Snow Day, Suspicions, Reading Hotels, 35/35, 63/75, Janet's student, Mount Olympus Crown Court, Making Bread, Urban Fox, Sean's car breaking, The Kryptonites, Norfolk, not being able to find the broads, Sea Life, Pleasurewood Hills, Norwich, White Technology, Outstanding, Callum's 18th, Doing Assembly, What's that in elephants?, Failing my driving test take one, We Will Rock You many times, Demonstrating and modelling, Getting 5M back, Becoming Literacy Co-ordinator, Wii-ing, the flat, failing my driving test take two, the beautiful sofa that wouldn't fit through the door, moving in with a boy, Ikea to the rescue, Clarence and Saxophone, Long Summer, Big Telly, Quaver and Myrtle, Impact Learning, Rebelling, World War 2, Fran, Big Writing, Fallings out, Ros, Imperial War Museum, Learning Detectives, Everyone coming to my inset, more of outstanding, Creativity in the Curriculum, trust and responsibility, it'll never happen, marking, Bristol, 170 papers in two weeks, Our Sergeant Major, turning 24, first christmas, being poor, optimising, owls, work, applications, the 1960s...

Happy New Year everyone, I hope 2008 is good to all of you. Enjoy it. xxx

So, it's the 31st of December, and so the last day of the year. I usually post this later on, but as I am going out, shock horror, you will have to put up with it being early.
The fourth annual rundown - the year that was 2006. Thank you to you all, good or bad.

Medium Term Planning Nightmares, 1H and Karina, Ros, Explaining freckles to five year olds, Oversleeping, Eid, My Humps, Does the Music Man come from far away or down your way?, The 6am date that was never meant to be, Being assaulted by a five year old, Falling out with Kate Part One, Kitchen Violence, The Cute Bar Girl in The Soak, squuur, nature centre, Not a mind reader, BEds vs PGCEs, Completing First Block Teaching Practice, A Night with Minx, Ash, The Stafford Journeys, You Gotta Have Faith, Getting a Job, Hating John Warren, The Cleaning Rota, Still Hating PE, Sarah and 3W, 5S and me, Alistair and Gabby, Dinah, Brother Oswin!, Boob Girl, Canadian Crises, Dublin, Brendan, The Carpark Incident, Jimmy Carr, Holly, 'inspectare disciplina ab MDLIIX anno domini', string telephones, Falling out with Kate Part Two, "Miss it's not us, it's the year 6s and they're meant to be setting us a good example!", M's take on racism, The Posh Restuarant and Hotel, The Cute Waiter, Caroline's Amazing Wedding, Sarah and Jess, Adam picking me up, Looking like a glamour model, The Boy/Gizzy/Shaun, Sex Ed, Lighting, A big step backwards, Passing my final teaching practice, Saying goodbye to Birmingham Sarah and the PGCE girls, Starting the job, Missed Calls, Meeting 5M, With Sympathy, Summer Holidays, The Goldfish in Domino, The Brush, Judo Adam, Being a real NQT, Janet, Many fights, The Learning Zone, The F***ing Laptops, Learning to drive, y1 Laura, Awkward hugs with Darvelle, switching s/D, the Heritage of Basildon, Losing my Voice, Neil, Leigh and high shoes, 275 miles, Jesus' Christmas Party, Sean, shows, endings and beginnings.

I hope you all have a wonderful 2007.

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x

Well today should be playing out very differently, but now it's not, such is life.

So instead, my third annual summary of the year that was 2005.

Emergency applications, the incompetancy of the GTTR, the Hen Night, Pavlov's Dog and its very tall bar, looking like a techinical genius, Darvelle, Learning the new word 'tsunami', Palov's Dog and its soft play area, Jen and Jay's wedding, Andy fixing the boiler, Going in a limo, Appreciating Ruth, Craptop's ultimate breakdown, DHL being awful at their jobs, the continuing problem of men with small wallets, the blonde girl on the bus, "I love you, I'm coming" and its meaning, Nate and the Friday night Project, Being Nate's fourth worst feature, Giant Boo, Deer Dancing, Being abandoned in Sarfend with a strange man, Dressing gown denial, Beaver and Steve, The Magic Rounabout, "I never put things in my top pocket!", Closed forever, Cutting my foot open, Naked Geography, Completeing the dissertation, Getting onto the PGCE, Being stood up, Seabound and kidnapping, That Derren Brown discussion, Revising, Other people's crushes and rainclouds, Exams and the horrible Dyslexia one, Ducks and their accents, I have never with Kate Katie and Caroline, The psychlogy party and the boy on the bus, Here in my car, Lots of free time, Chinese at Caroline's, Bra Shopping, The results day sleepover, the McJunningcass family, Bohemian Rhapsody, Shakeaway, Kate's Birthday, The cute guy in Reflex, Pole dancing and other injuries, Irish Dave's Cock, having a degree, graduation and Caroline's dressers, Ambleside and Langdale, Doing it 4 Real with the Haworth family, Youth Hostels always being up hills, Gemma and the worst job ever, Moving to Brum, the £80 duvet cover, Colin Hill, drunken Fridays with Sarah, the random Reading visit, Long and Short vowel sounds, Mapping in Public Houses, Soneeta and year 3, My little year ones, lots of assignments, planning, Al and chinchilla, Never learning that it hurts, Birthday wine, Medium Term Planning, Illnesses, The Worst Break Up Ever, less whoring altogether, it's all about the fringe.

A very strange year altogether. Love to the people that made it happen.
Here's to 2006!

And it's time for my 2nd annual brief rundown of what made 2004 memorable.

Futurama Marathons, Dylan, Bill, Das Hokey Cokey, Black Celebration, Being sweated on by the man from Rotorsand, Bulmershe, Shiv, PoNaNa, David Blunkett, Tina Turner, Children's Counting, Pushing Layla's mini, London Zoo and the tapirs and allergies, Embassy CES, Living at South Bank, Canada, Drive by Donutting, Timbits, Dairy Queen, Jayne and Craig, Canada Wonderland, Ponchos, Niagara Falls and the Maid, Long Aeroplane Journeys, Scary Internet Cafes, Singleness, Admirers, Embarking with Flash, Gain and more gain, Trivial Pursuits, Peep Show, Flashing, Sellotape and Simon, Macclesfield, Lack of card, Need of Job, Still Whoring and still boring!

Hope you all have a fabulous 2005, hope you all get your wishes, and if any of them involve me, let me know and we'll sort out some payment!

xxx

You certainly were an interesting year.
Things that happened this year worth mentioning:

Nate, Nemo, Room Meet, House, Uni, Moving, Job, Money, Lack of Money, Hair, Music, Gigness, Loss, Gain, People, Room, Internet, George The Dragon, Religious Buses, Boredom, Heatwave, Legoland, Burn, Gas Explosion, Oracle Stairs, Royal Berks Hospital, Fat Lady, Grumpy Man, Israeli Train Frank, Birdshit, Light Up Floor, Hidden Activities on Trains, Lots of Trains, Fur & Russell Spence, Nearly being on tv, Scary Eyed Tmattle, Pizza Hut, Journelle, Zil in HMV, Puddles, Union, Rick and His Brother and His Friend, Men From Brannigans and Phone Numbers, Broken Beds, Birthday Cakes, New Housemates, Bye Bye MSN, Fuckwallet, Whoring, Ignoring, Boring.

Here's hoping 2004 will make me interesting :)

Happy New Year To All xxx