http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/en-EUhttp://backend.userland.com/rss092http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/http://data5.blog.de/design/preview/c6/ac23dfb6ad18cdadc84ba07c1962c4_160x200.jpg <p>Well I've had the kittens for exactly a month but it seems like I've had them forever!</p> <p>Anyway, I went into town today with mr pink-shoes and we ended up having a semi argumnet which was nice however it worked itself out and things are ok now. Well after the starbucks argument we went into HMV and while we were in there a homeless man came in, now I'm used to seeing the drug addict beggers on the street with fairly fashionable clothes asking for money, infact I'm quite immune to them, but this one really got to me, he was about 50 and was just looking at the horror films in HMV, he wasn't begging, he wasn't asking for anything he was just browsing in HMV, he had an old ripped coat and what looked like a sleeping bag rolled up in 2 carrier bags to keep it together, what really got to me was that his shoes were falling apart. </p> <p>He seemed to have a lot of dignity and I wanted to help him but what could I do? I couldn't give him anything as I didn't want to offend him. It actually made me cry, just there in the middle of town, real fluds of tears (infact I'm crying now) it made me so sad that he could have been someones dad, you never know the back story to these things and it could happen to anyone.</p> <p>If anything I resent the ones who sit on the street asking for money as they make everyone so apathetic and not really think that homelessness could effect anyone.</p> <p>I'm now torn between setting up a payrole payment to the salvation army or NSPCC or childline as all these charities now matter to me...I just need to earn more money so I can donate to them all. Oh and I'm now going to donate all the charity shop stuff I have to the shelter shop! Please donate something to a homeless charity as if you ever see someone who is living with homelessness not asking you for help just getting on with life it'll break your heart and you'll feel compelled to do something to! </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/10/22/sunday_22nd~1249224/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/10/22/sunday_22nd~1249224/Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:24:32 +0200 <p>Ok so I've been crap at updating this....however I've had a stomach bug and have now got a stinking cold so I feel like utter shit!</p> <p>Anyway things have been eventful in the school world, one of the kids parents has taken them out of school as there was a fight between him and another kid, this was partially caused by the kid who's been removeds mum so thats exciting. </p> <p>To be totally honest with you I really do like my job but when you feel crap it's really hard to keep your temper and the kids have seemed to be a million times worse in the last few days which may just be me feeling poo, but what ever it is it's really really hard!</p> <p>Today I've come home from work and I'm going to see Ross Noble tonight which I really want to but I'm so tired and feel so shit that I'd be happy to go to bed, also todays been so hard that I could just cry. </p> <p>I want to write today off and hope that when I wake up tomorrow everything will be better. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/10/10/tues_10th~1206678/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/10/10/tues_10th~1206678/Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:49:51 +0200 <p>Last night I went to see a Pink Floyd tribute band, the only problem being that I really don't like Pink Floyd! Oh yes I had a great night, after a really crappy week the last thing I wanted was to have to spend the night with my potential in-laws and seeing a band I have absolutly no intrest in seeing! Oh well I'll have to remeber not to agree to things when I'm drunk! Please remind me that most things I think are a good idea when I'm drunk usually aren't! </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/30/saturday_30th~1173450/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/30/saturday_30th~1173450/Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:24:44 +0200 <p>Ok I said in my intro that I was crap at all this!</p> <p>Thanks to the people who left messages today that gave me the kick up the arse I needed to get back here! If I ever vanish again just yell at me and I'll come back.</p> <p>Ok here are the things that have changed...Stuff with the kid who's being abused took a great social services turn for the worse, they came to school on wednesday to take the kids into care, now lets just say up until then they really hadn't done anything at all then they came in with the all or nothing method! Great timing as well as it was his little brothers birthday, both kids said they wanted to stay at home with mum and dad (which they would as they're kids and they are their mum and dad!) so now nothing has happened, except the boy in my class was taken away by the head just before home time so not sure whats going on there! (oh and I've been unable to find a shop that sells a white school t-shirt for him, but his jumper and PE kit are drying on my radiators now!)</p> <p>My birthday went like any other day, I still did the house work, worked and changed the bed. However I now have 2 kittens! They're great. I have a little boy called Licorice and a girl called Scamp. They seem to be taking up most of my time at the moment but I'm loving having them here!</p> <p>This week has been really really fun (please note this is sarcastic) Gerry broke her wrist on sunday night so has been off until today. Helen taught the class on Monday morning. The kids played up! God only knows why they decided to play up for the head teacher but thats what they do!</p> <p>On wednesday we had a supply teacher, who quite frankly was the worst teacher I've ever had the misfortune to spend time with..She didn't introduce her self to me which is quite frankly rude, I spent wednesday feeling like I was teaching the class and when she's being paid around £160 a day to teach them, thats what she should do! Anyway lets just say I've had one hell of a week! </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/29/friday_29th~1172270/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/29/friday_29th~1172270/Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:31:27 +0200 <p>One week until my 27th Birthday! God I feel old but hey at least one of the kids at school thought I was 21 which is cool!</p> <p>The saga of the neglected kid continues, he went and spoke to Julie today so we're making positive steps towards making things better for him, when he's in her room she gives him and his brother biscuits and yoghurt and I'm going to get him a pack of school shirts and take his dirty one home to wash every week as I really can't stand him having dirty clothes all the time and if I can figure out how to get his trousers washed I will as to be honest they're starting to smell of pee!</p> <p>Oh Keeleys still fallen out with me, she says she hates me because I shouted at her yesterday, obviously she's not worked out that if I shouted at her it's because she was misbehaving and refusing to do any work and claiming she can't do it when she just did! God that drives me insane! I don't know how they justify in their mind that they just can't do something they did thirty seconds ago.</p> <p>I didn't manage to eat my dinner today as I had a really bad stomach ache, almost like period pains but I've just had my period so it's not that. God knows, maybe it's just stress. If I could make things better for all the kids then I would, but I can't.</p> <p>Oh I'm also finding year 6's quite hard to cope with as they're really cocky and some of them have a real attitude on them and I honestly don't like them, they're already the kids of people I dispise and all this is achieved by the age of 10!</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/15/fri_15th~1129250/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/15/fri_15th~1129250/Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:07:29 +0200 <p>Today the little boy was wearing the same T-shirt he was given yesterday. I saw in Tesco that a pack of 3 school tops is less than £5 and really wanted to buy him a pack as it really isn't alot of money to help keep him clean.</p> <p>He looks like he could use a good wash, today he was cleaning a cut on his leg with his own spit and you could see the dirt moving away where he wet it, I just want to take him home and give him a good bath.</p> <p>I was talking to Julie about him today and apparently social services are involved in the case and it runs a hell of a lot deeper that I knew, not only is he not being clothed and washed, he's not being fed either so his school dinner is his only guranteed meal of the day, there is also a history of violence in the family so I've got top keep an eye on what he says to me and if he says anything about how he's being treated at home I need to tell Julie straight away. I'm glad I know this as it make me feel a little bit better.</p> <p>Anyway onto other stories from the classroom...Keeley fell out with me today. It took me all day to get out of her why and it transpired that it's because I shouted at her and told her off. Ok I hold my hands up and say that I have been a lot harder on the kids today and had a much shorter fuse than normal, I've still got this stupid virus thats making me feel generally crap, now in an office if you feel abit under the weather you can just take it easy for the day, slow your pace of work and if you're irritable try to avoid people as much as possible, in a classroom the kids still demand your attention just as much and still throw strops when they decide they can't do the work. I've actually been really bad at the job today, all because I've been really short tempered, it started when my three decided that they didn't want to do the work, I yelled at them as I knew they could do it they just didn't feel like doing maths this morning (I know they can do it as they were all doing it no problem at all yesterday) Now there are only so many times (especially when you feel like crap) you can explain to someone that when you divide a number by 10 you move the decimal point one place to the left. I snaped and told Keeley off for saying she couldn't do the work when she'd just done 10 questions with no problem and got them all right with minimal help.</p> <p>Then Steven decided that he should have attitude and tell me that I didn't know the answer to the dyslexia game we were playing, I did know the answer and assured him it was right, he kept pushing me till I snaped at him that I have a Degree in English and I'm quite sure that I know what the right answer is. (just to point out this was about the 3rd argument in as many mins I'd had with him about various aspects of the work).</p> <p>I finally punished Keeley when she asked me if she could read to me because she was bored and didn't want to do science, so I made her read last...actually she didn't get chance to read so she gets to read twice as long tomorrow to make up for it. I do feel bad about that actually but she'd just been a total pain all day that making her wait to read seemed the only way I could assert authority over her.</p> <p>I know I'm crap at this but it's very much learning on the job so I'm bound to have days where I don't seem to do it right, please tell me it'll take more than 2 weeks to get the hang of it all! </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/14/thurs_14th~1126503/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/14/thurs_14th~1126503/Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:52:34 +0200 <p>I need some advice....</p> <p>There is a kid in the class who's been coming to school since the start of term in a shirt which it transpires hasn't been washed since the end of last school year. It's almost black it's that dirty, it has the name of one of the other kids written on the back of it (apparently he did it on the last day of term) and various ink spills on it. Now the kid in question is refusing to take off his jumper (which isn't much cleaner, but it's red so it's less obvious than his supposed white shirt) as he knows that his shirt is a mess and the other kids will tease him, one of them called him a scrubber today and that really upset him. I had a word with Gerry about it and she managed to get him a clean white T-shirt to wear so he could take his jumper off.</p> <p>Anyway there are various other issues surrounding this kid and we're keeping an eye on things incase it gets worse so something can be done about it but to be totally honest with you I'm really upset about this little boy having to come to school in dirty clothes. I'm 99% sure that his shirt will never come clean even if it was washed (which I don't think it ever will be) I really want to buy him a new school shirt but I expect that would be crossing the line. </p> <p>I know it's a job and that you shouldn't get involved as they're not your kids blah blah blah, but it's so hard not to and they're just kids who really don't deserve to have to wear dirty clothes every day and get picked on as we know that kids can be really cruel.</p> <p>Please please please give me advice on what you'd do in this situation, its really got to me today. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/13/wed_13th~1123427/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/13/wed_13th~1123427/Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:56:50 +0200 <p>And again they were a pain!</p> <p>Gerry was hard on them from the start and they seemed to respond quite well until playtime then they were a total nightmare until dinner.</p> <p>Jo was taking the class in the afternoon so she decided that it was time to be harsh with them, and if they didn't do their science they didn't get to do ICT. They missed half an hour of ICT so maybe next week they'll work quicker!</p> <p>The kids are all trying to push their luck with me and I'm getting really fed up with them, well this week more than normal as I'm still feeling crap and have a temp, so I've not really got the same level of patience I normall have with them. Hopefully when i feel better this will improve and I will be able to get through the day without wanting to strangle one of them. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/13/12th_sept~1122916/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/13/12th_sept~1122916/Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:24:02 +0200 <p>Ok I know I've missed this weekend but to be honest it was all spent doing stuff in the garden so it wasn't very intresting at all.</p> <p>Anyway today the kids seemed to be possessed by the devil! Perhaps it was because Jo was taking them not Gerry (this will be happening every week so please God stop them being like this every week) but they were trouble from start to finish today, even my three were causing me trouble.</p> <p>I've got a stupid cold so I didn't really feel upto a class full of rowdy 10 year olds. I think I snaped at them more than I usually do, but i expect thats not a bad thing as at least they should be learning who's boss.</p> <p>Anyway if tomorrow is the same I may end up throtteling one of them <img src="/img/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="middle" border="0"> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/11/mon_11th~1116509/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/11/mon_11th~1116509/Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:44:47 +0200 <p>Working with these kids breaks my heart.</p> <p>They've all had a hard life up to now and for some of them school is the only constant thing in their life. Now I've been allocated my own Golden time activity (not sure if I mentioned this before) but I get to supervise the computer room and get 3 kids from each class. Now obviously class 5 know me and quite like the idea of doing computers with me, so as there are only 3 kids from each class allowed this is a first come first served thing. Well Gerry let one teble go first, then the second table went and 2 people wanted to go on the computers which left one space open for the two kids who sit on my table to get, well Keeley go to choose first to Tom was upset as he wouldn't be able to do them this week but his name is down first for next week (infact I know who will be in my Golden time computer group untill half term from class 5 as that many people wanted to do it). What really broke my heart was that Tom cried. Actual tears rolling down his face because he wasn't allowed to do computers this week. I just wanted to hug him and let him come and do them but rules are rules and he can do it next week.</p> <p>After golden time we all went back into class and Ella was missing so Gerry asked me if I could go and find her. She was sat crying in the cloak room. I ended up missing story time and hugging her while she told me that her mum was nasty to her and wouldn't let her do anything or go out and told her off all the time, now there is really not alot you can do in this situation, apart from tell her that you're sure her mum has her reasons and that when she's older she'll be able to do what she likes etc, but she was telling me that she was always in trouble for not doing things at the time she was suppose to but as she's not got a watch then she doesn't know what time it is so she can't make sure she's not late. Now obviously I have no idea if any of this is true, but what my heart wants to do is get her a watch for her birthday (which is 2 days before mine) Obviously this is not going to happen for a couple of reason, 1) If I got her something I'd have to get them all one and there is no way I could afford 24 watches. 2) I'm sure her mum would be pissed off about it. So instead I've kind of resolved that I might send them all a Birthday Card on their birthday instead.</p> <p>Now I thow this question out to the ether that is the blog reading public (please please leave me a comment that with your opinion on this as I do want to know). Is it a bad thing to send a Birthday card to each child when it's their birthday??</p> <p>I look forward to your views on this! </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/08/fri_8th~1108490/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/08/fri_8th~1108490/Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:44:22 +0200 <p>Today was another fun filled day. There was a "Serious Incedent" at dinner time with one of the girls and several other kids in the class so that needed to be delt with by Helen. I don't envy her that.</p> <p>I got to take the class for a few minutes as Gerry had to take a couple of phone calls, obviously the kids were trying it on, by  the time she came back there were 4 kids numbers on the board. The hard thing about the reward chart thing is that I'm not sure what Gerry would class as behaviour that warents a warning. There are some things where if it was my class I'd put their name up on the board for constantly doing things that I've told them not to. There are some tables that keep talking and messing about when they've been told not to, were that my class I'd give them all a cross against their name for that day, but I don't know how Gerry feels about it so I refrain from doing it.</p> <p>I've also gone the whole hog and got myself an academic planner so I can use when the kids read to me and see how they're getting on.</p> <p>Anyway I'm not going to write much tonight as I've come home with a killer head ache. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/07/thurs_7th~1105921/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/07/thurs_7th~1105921/Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:07:58 +0200 <p>Well things got exciting today, no devil possessions yet, but one of them did run away at playtime!! He just crawled under the fence and sat on a wall, so I went and managed to talk him in by not yelling at him and just talking to him like a mini adult which he is. He then ran into the school and hid in the toilets for the rest of the morning. Always exciting!</p> <p>I've also been asked to go on a first aid course. I'll then get a real first aid qualification so yet another thing to go on my UCAS form GTP application! Gerry has told Helen that I want to do this so hopefully I'll be able to get some support from the school. </p> <p>I've actually really enjoyed things today, I was showing the class how to get to the world war 2 things on the BBC website and it was really good. I'll have to get into practice for my Friday golden time group, there is still a part of me that can't get my head round the fact that these kids are 11 and can navigate the internet well.</p> <p>The fact that I am learning so much on the job is meaning that I'm feeling really tired all the time. I could go to sleep now and it's not even five O'clock but to my body it feels much later! </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/06/wq~1102486/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/06/wq~1102486/Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:42:53 +0200 <p>Today was the first day with the kids.....It was great I really enjoyed it. They were just kids and not anywhere near as scary as I thought they would be. I've been working on one table with the lower ability children and I hope that I will be able to teach them something!</p> <p>Anyway I'm doing my best to impress gerry and I seem to be finding out lots of stuff that will be useful for what they're learning and I hope I'm learning about the national curriculum but I don't know what I'll need to put on the applicaton form for the GTP so it's all trial and error I suppose. Actually thinking about the GTP make me think about when I was applying for Uni and doing everything I could that would look good on my UCAS form, it's sort of the same thing now. I'm seriously involved in the school news paper as I think it will be good for the kids and that it's something I'll enjoy what with my degree and back ground but there is still that little voice at the back of my mind that is thinking "this will look really good on my GTP form", I actually have no idea if it will or not but thats what my brain is saying.</p> <p>Anyway the new enthusiasm continues...I've been sorting some stuff out about evacuated children for the world war 2 project in class 5 and have just spent about 2 hours typing job descriptions for the school news paper. Actually me and Charlotte thought we should make them apply for the jobs and also sign contracts (hey it's part of the every child matters charter to teach them about the world of work <img src="/img/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="middle" border="0">) but we thought that might be to hard for them, however I might mention to Charlotte tomorrow that I'd be happy to sit in one of the class rooms at dinner to help the kids if they needed it with applications. Anyway, I've got 15 job descriptions that I'll take with me tomorrow.</p> <p>I wonder how long I will be young and keen for before the daily grind wears me down? </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/05/tues_5th~1100385/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/05/tues_5th~1100385/Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:39:57 +0200 <p>So after the whole, "I shall wear cords and t-shirts" decloration of yesterday I went straight out to H&M and got 2 pairs of sensible work trousers! I know I have no balls!</p> <p>So today I arrive at my first day, which is a training day and wore my new trousers and a shirt, everyone else was in jeans and trainers, I felt a total nob! But I now know what I'm doing, I'm working with Gerry who is the deputy head and I'm sure she once taught me on supply or something but I can't be sure. I'm doing the stock for the whole school and working with the year 6 class all the time, I've met the other teachers and they all seem really nice.</p> <p>I'm still planning on applying for the GTP when they send me the application form by which time I'll have had my own golden time group of children and helped Charlotte (one of the other teachers) with the school news paper, this may possibly be a bad idea but I think it should be fun. Oh I'm so new and enthusiastic it even makes me laugh.</p> <p>Anyway I spent the day writing peoples names on books and making sure that they all had everything on their desk that they needed for tomorrow. I've been warned that they can be really nasty kids but they're just kids......how bad can they be? </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/05/mon_4th~1100342/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/05/mon_4th~1100342/Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:26:19 +0200 <p>The worst thing about starting a new job (especially one that I currently know nothing at all about, due to the fact that they haven't given me a job description or anything, I don't even know how much money the job pays) is what to wear. </p> <p>Now working in TV was great I could just go in whatever I wanted, combats, jeans you name it. Working in an office, that was quite easy formal trousers and a shirt, not especially comfy but at least I knew what was expected. What do you wear to work in a school. Now I'll be working with 11 year olds which is not an age group I'm familiar with (apart from my nephew but I some how doubt that I could win over a whole class of them by letting them stay up late and watch Shaun of the dead) but I expect there will be some crouching down to talk to them and possibly messy paining etc. So ideally I want to wear my cords and a T-Shirt or jumper as they all was easily and my cords are dead comfy for crouching, But I don't know if I can wear them, I guess I'll wear them to the training day tomorrow and see what they say. The Teaching Assitants at the school I voulenteerd at seemed to wear jeans but I'm just self concious about what I wear. Sod it I need to be able to do the job and I'm not planning on wearing stuff that will stop me doing that (Unfortunatly I may have to wear real shoes which is a problem as I love my pink ones).</p> <p>Ashley is annoyed with me. I was looking at teacher training sites and found out that if I don't get on to the GTP then I will be able to get the same money as (I think) I'm on now to do a PGCE and then I can teach and earn us good money, so I said this to Ashley who then decided that I should ask him if I was allowed to do it!! Like he's my dad or something so now he's off in a strop as I was trying to work out the quickest way for me to start to earn some good money but thats offensive to him because I didn't ask for his permission. Men!</p> <p>The Challenge is on as to what the hell as Hot Skull is. I went to bed so I didn't see what the other 3 answers were but as one of the correct ones was Hot Skull I'm guessing they could have been anything, Hot Tree, it makes as much sense as Hot Skull. Please someone put me out of my mysery what the hell is a Hot Skull??? </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/03/sun_3rd~1092995/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/03/sun_3rd~1092995/Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:20:08 +0200 <p>There is nothing great about being a woman!</p> <p>I've decided this, generally people pay you less money and take less notice of you, but also you have the spector periods looming over you the whole time and this month it's been highly annoying! I've had painful breasts for coming up to 3 weeks now (why I don't know but they've been painful and thats not good). I've also been feeling highly prememstural for 3 days now and it's still not here! It was due yesterday and I was hoping I could get the painfilled 1st day out of the way before I start work but lets face it it's planning on crippling me with pain on my first day at work! Thanks for that one God!</p> <p>Besides my PMT probs the weather has been shit all day so we stayed in and watched telly and DVD's and I continued my Richard Herring blog obsession,(<a href="http://www.richardherring.co.uk/warmingup/"><a href="http://www.richardherring.co.uk/warmingup/">http://www.richardherring.co.uk/warmingup/</a></a>) now as he's been writing the blog since Dec 2002 I have some catching up to do, I'm now as far as April 2003 but I did manage to lose 6 hours and gain a killing headache from stairing at the computer screen all day.</p> <p>I wonder if Richard Herring will end up taking over the currently vacant dream sex partner previously ocupied by Dave Gorman? I shall keep you updated on that one.</p> <p>On another point....Some shitty late night ITV quiz is doing some thing where you have to correctly guess the word that follows hot now the answers they have at the moment are.....Hot Water, Hot Chocolate, Hot Pants and Hot Skull! If anyone can tell me what the hell a hot skull is please leave me a message as I'm sure that they made it up! </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/03/sat_2nd~1092298/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/03/sat_2nd~1092298/Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:49:06 +0200 <p>So a strange series of events led to me getting the perfect present for Rich's birthday. For as long as I have known him Rich has had a boarderline obession with Richard Herring (from fist of fun and TMWRNJ) for those of you too young to remeber those he's a comedian. Anyway here is the strange series of events that lead to rich's present....</p> <p>I had my first Dave Gorman dream for about a year (somehow my subconcious has rather fallen out with him, not sure what he did in my dream to make this happen but obviously something). Anyway when I woke up I decided I'd best have a look at his website (<a href="http://www.davegorman.com/"><a href="http://www.davegorman.com/">http://www.davegorman.com/</a></a>) to see if there was anything exciting going on (which there wasn't really) but I stumbled across his blog and started reading that. There was an entry about him going on Richard and Judy to talk about the blogs he read, one of the blogs he read was the blog of Richard Herring (<a href="http://www.richardherring.co.uk/warmingup/"><a href="http://www.richardherring.co.uk/warmingup/">http://www.richardherring.co.uk/warmingup/</a></a>). This lead me to thinking, I've not seen that so I clicked on the link and then lost the next 3 hours reading the whole of August in his blog.</p> <p>After reading August I decided to look at the link at the bottom of the entries for his programme fund, which linked me to his just giving page for SCOPE (<a href="http://www.justgiving.com/menageaun/"><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/menageaun/">http://www.justgiving.com/menageaun/</a></a>) so from looking there I wondered if there was anyway I could get him to sighn a programme for Rich's Birthday.</p> <p>Now you've got to love the internet! I emailed Richard Herring to ask fully expecting to hear back in a couple of weeks or not at all. anyway a couple of hours later I had a really nice email back telling me to donate to the fund and email him my address and he's send some stuff. That was yesterday. Today the stuff came! It's fancastic and is all personalised for Rich so he'll know I didn't just buy it from Ebay!</p> <p>If you get the chance please read Richard Herring's Blog it's really good (far better than this one will ever be, but then again I'm not a professional commedien and writer, hey you pay your money and take your choice) and if you get a chace to see him live please book tickets I've not heard a bad report about his shows (from my friends who've seen him every year for the last 3 at the Edinburgh Festival) and I fully intend to go when he plays Sheffield in December.</p> <p>Other than that my day has consited of 4 (count 'em) FOUR trips to Tesco! How exciting is my life? </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/02/thurs_1st~1090645/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/02/thurs_1st~1090645/Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:45:11 +0200 <p>Why the Girl in the Pink shoes?</p> <p>Well for the past 2 years I've done my best to wear pink shoes. Ever since I bought myself a pair of pink Rocket dogs on my 25th birthday.</p> <p>Well they've finally died on me, I've got a tiny hole in the bottom and that makes them painful to wear, trust me if I could wear them I would!<br> Anyway I now own 3 pairs of pink shoes (including the ones that have just died on me, although I may still wear them for gardening)</p> <p>This will be sort of like an online diary but not. I'll try to post some sort of random daily thought or musing on my life, however I may forget or something, I'm a bit crap like that <img src="/img/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="middle" border="0"></p> <p>Maybe you should know a bit about me? Well I'm 26 and I'm just about to start work as a Teaching Assistant with the aim of being a Teacher by applying to be on the GTP (Graduate Teacher Programme) and hopefully training this time next year. </p> <p>My Previous incarnations have been as a crappy admin worker, it payed the mortgage but I hated it, Then I had an all to breif career in TV! I worked as an undercover reporter for Channel 4, It was great I loved it and I think I did a good job, but I've had no phone calls since so maybe no, or perhaps it's because the subject matter wasn't earth shattering (although 6 months later the BBC released a simila whistle blower to the story we did, they were filming it at the same time as I was).</p> <p>Then I spent a hellish month working as a researcher for the used car roadshow (on men and motors). It wasn't the being a researcher that was the hellish thing it was just some of the people I was working with, anyway I left and kinda gave up on the TV thing as I was really disillusioned by the whole thing if I could spend more time working for the good companies I'd be happy but as I didn't I had to think of a new plan for my life, hence the teaching.</p> <p>There now you know all about me. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/01/introduction~1089554/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://pink-shoes.blog.co.uk/2006/09/01/introduction~1089554/Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:16:27 +0200