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Friday Thoughts 33 - You are awesome!

Well, it’s going to be a very short one because it’s not Friday!


As I am sure most of you have, I think I have had a whole week in these 3 days. It has certainly been a whirlwind, however a whirlwind of (mostly) lovely things. I have now managed to read with all of EYFS and have started on Y1 and it is just a wonderful addition to my day. I had the most amazing time with PN Tigers this afternoon naming animals and just sharing in the joy of a book. The slightly (or, in some cases, totally) wary expressions have now been replaced with big beaming smiles when I spend time in their class and this is just great. As an adult it’s pretty daunting moving to somewhere you don’t speak the language, but to do it aged two is positively terrifying, so to hear one of our youngest charges talking about the ‘cheeky monkey’ completely independently was quite a defining moment for me. This little one speaks French and Czech at home and is learning both English and Mandarin; no wonder she spent a significant proportion of term 1 just observing and processing. I feel quite ashamed at my lack of other-language acquisition!


It seems somewhat of a tradition that I share with you ‘tales from the Hadlington household’, so this week’s update is that, for the first time in their 53-year marriage, my parents ran out of fresh fruit and had resorted to frozen vegetables. I think their covid-contact had more of an impact than they cared to admit because they were no longer going to the local shop to collect their fresh bits and pieces, instead relying solely on ‘Mr Sainsbury’. They are fiercely independent and completely committed to supporting local amenities and services (they still have the milk man and use the local butcher – still the same guy who, whenever I see him tells me that he remembers me when I was in my pram…) and will do so ‘as long as they can’. So, although I am inherently grateful they are able to access online shopping, I am looking forward to when they can revert to their old habits. I am also grateful that they still have their network around them. They have only lived in three houses their entire marriage, moving house just before I was born and then the year I graduated; the first two were within approximately 2 miles of each other, with houses two and three on the same road. Yes, they moved from number 100 to number 92. They decided to stay close to where they knew not only because they had their friends and church, but also because it is on several bus routes for when they could no longer drive. Ever practical, my aged parents!


So that’s all from me for the year of the rat, but before I go, I would like to echo the words of the

Mandarin department:


新年快乐!牛年大吉!

xīn nián kuài lè ! niú nián dà jí !

Happy Chinese New Year! All the good luck in the year of OX.

我们真牛!

wǒ men zhēn niú!

We are awesome!


I’m back on Youtube this week and my David Gray playlist has morphed into Snow Patrol which I am really rather enjoying. They would currently like to Heal Me.


Happy not-Friday!

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