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"A kind of fish that is extinct except for one species......."
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Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. Country life
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Due to the erratic nature of my various jobs it's hard to explain what I actually do. But there's plenty of work about. Too much sometimes, but since I never know what's round the corner I don't turn it down. January is exam season for the under 18s, so this week I'm revision teaching instead of being on holiday like the rest of the country.
This means leaving my little village very early in the morning to commute to London. If it's a Sunday I'd drive and park for free on Waterloo Bridge, but on the Bank Holiday Monday no one seemed sure what was going on so I decided to go by train. Except no train left my village early enough. Plan B was to drive part of the way and pick up the new High Speed Javelin train, just to see what it was like. But that wasn't running early enough either. So, Plan C. Drive to a nearby village on a different branch line where there was an early train running.
This particular village is one on the list for coach party tours and occasional TV programmes. I've attempted to visit it a few times but always get lost and give up and have never actually seen any roads to it in daylight. So there I was at 6.30am, in the dark, attempting to find a train station I've never seen, in a confusing village which didn't seem to have any signposting. When I eventually did find it I asked the ticket office lady why there were no signs in the village. "The tourists steal them" she said, although personally I think the Local People hide them...
My own village station is walking distance from my house. Well, actually from anyone's house as it's not a big village. Today looked like an easier journey. My plan was to get an earlier train than I needed, so that I could go by bus instead of Tube when I got to London. But when I turned up at the station the ticket office man said it was a Saturday service, therefore I had a 40 minute wait. "Are you going back home or waiting here?" he asked. I said I'd wait as it was raining. "Fancy a cup of tea then?" he said, and put the kettle on. Nice!
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Guests for lunch
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After the row and the 4am bedtime, Moonlight stayed hidden until her first guest arrived for lunch. I'd been up all morning preparing vegetarian mushroom lasagne http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandst...room-lasagne-yotam-ottolenghi/print with the 3 kinds of mushrooms and 5 kinds of cheese.
More in #2...
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10 years this week
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Although I'd been lurking since October 1999 it's 10 years since I signed up. I didn't activate my page at first either. Or post very much and I still don't.
I've never really used my journal for detailing my day to day life as I can't imagine it's all that interesting to read, but as an experiment I'm going to try for a few weeks. Maybe not every day, and maybe not for long, but it seems like a good time to try.
I've never revealed a huge amount about my life and I still won't. No locations, real names and some details will be changes to prevent identification. But after 10 years, perhaps people wonder about me? I have 2 daughters, Sunshine and Moonlight, and several jobs. In 2008 I went from full-time work to a new, but part-time job, and top up my income with as much other part-time or temporary work as I can. Mostly teaching, but sometimes other things, eg film extra.
Anyway, if you're interested, the first installment of my daily life is in #2. Boxing Day.
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Spring has sprung and the Garden of England is covered in...
(Mar 21, 2009)
...plastic. Polytunnels, cloches and sheets of it all over the fields.
And lambs. Lots and lots of lambs. 
Which means it's my daughter Sunshine's birthday! 22 today! How ever did that happen? She's just as lovely and sunny and cheerful as ever. I remember bringing her home from the hospital as a tiny  and my health visitor said she would come back the next morning to see how we were getting on. As she left, I really couldn't see how I was supposed to keep the tiny precious bundle alive until then.
Moonlight is growing up too, almost 19 and away at uni. I had a text this week:
 "Mum, why are a) essays so awful and b) boys so confusing?".
Oh dear. The essays I can help with. The boys... not so much.
Still trying to work that one out myself.
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A room full of dead people and teachers
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I might be an ex teacher but I'm still keeping in touch with the teaching world. Which is how come I found myself with a free entry pass on a teachers preview evening to the latest Body Worlds exhibition, "The Mirror of Time" at the 02 Dome. http://www.visitlondon.com/bodyworlds/
I saw the exhibition in 2002 at the much more intimate setting of an ex brewery in East London. It was funny, sad, thought provoking and the choice of venue really connected the visitor with the bodies and the people. They were real.
This time the displays are very well presented in a wonderful space but somehow it feels much less "real" and much more like viewing museum exhibits. The Dome is absolutely amazing and the Bubble has more space but this exhibition seemed too clinical and remote. A lot of the exhibits are the same as in 2002, but they seem to have lost the "shock and awe" power that they had back then. I would attribute this to the vastness of the display space.
About half way round I had a text from a friend who couldn't make it for the teacher event. She said she was "on a hot date!". I sent a text back to say I was "in a room full of dead people and teachers".
My social life needs improving!
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