Norwich City 3 tied Norwich City 4 4:4

Played awfully. Spend the first 15 minutes passing to the opposition. Appear to have got stronger as kept throwing the ball to strongly or too high. The whole team was a bit pants but recovered from 3-0 down to tie 4-4. Created two gaols but scored none. Referee inexperienced. For the second week in a row the concept of a contact free game was a bit of a joke.

Norwich City 3 lost to UEA 2: 5-4

In this game my division attacked for 3 mins the other division attacked for 47 minutes and were generally rubbish. No goals scored by myself.

Rugby

It would be so bad if we hadn't played well. We did a lot of things right. We dominated in the scrum, turned over loose ball and won opposition lineouts. We had lots of possession and territory was even. South Africa had 5 chances and took them all. It seems that N hemisphere teams need about 3 chances to score a try and the South Hemisphere need about 0.1 of a chance At the beginning of the year new laws were introduced and there seems to be a huge inconsistency in the way they are applied and last week England were penalised for things that were fine this week. It needs more time to become more consistent.

Snow

Love snow. It takes a standard scene and makes it more interesting and highlights new things that you do not notice usually. Must of had about a 1cm in total and it is laying everywhere. Hopefully it will keep being snowy for a while.

A strange old week

1. I accepted a promotion. Ages ago i vaguely mentioned that when a colleague went on maternity leave that I might be interested in the job while she was away. Evidently this made its way to the head and I had a five minute interview and then I said Yes. Still not sure I want it as extra work for not that much cash but it looks good on the CV I suppose so after Christmas I will be the assistant head of house until the summer. I also get to be involved in all the activities when Yr6 come to the school.

2. The exam board who I mark for rang up and asked if I wanted to review the teaching materials for the new GCSE due out in the summer so I said yes.

3. Took Yr7 to the castle in Norwich on a joint History and Geography trip and really enjoyed it. They got to meet a medieval monk, a town planner, see the dungeons etc. I thoroughly recommend a visit if you have an opportunity.

4. England put out a weak looking team against Germany and played them off the park. Had the members of the Gentleman's Sports Watching Group over and provided a potato and broccoli curry which was remarkably tasty.

5. Going to be a bit of a loner next week as other members of the department are taking a trip to Malham for the week leaving me on my own and in charge.

Who said prayers don't get answered. Sky and Virgin have made up TODAY and I can get to see the rest of the series in January. My appeal yesterday clearly was read at the highest levels and decisions made. Will try world peace tomorrow

Battlestar Galactica

One of my favourite TV programmes is Battlestar Galactica. It is proper grown up science fiction and leaves Star Trek looking a bit dated and worthy. I knew that they were going to make 4 series and carefully did watch or see anything to do with it. After Ofsted left I bought the box set and have been carefully watching it for about three months savouring every moment, every twist and turn, every nuance. I got to the end of the DVD's that had been provided and found it ends at episode 12 in season 4. This is a climactic moment but its not the end and one very important piece of information has left to be revealed. Due to the writers strike the remaining 12 episodes have not been aired yet and won't be until January 2009. Such sweet agony having to wait plus does anyone have Sky 1 and tape it for me?