Opps - sorry Mr Levein!

I kinda feel a bit bad for Craig Levein - the former manger of Leicester City. He got the sack the day after they lost to a Paul Wotton free kick for the might Pilgrims. However, that soon goes when I look at the points gap between us and the relegation zone and remember that we need the points as well!
Ah well - must get back to the grindstone. Almost done 1 of the 4 tasks that have to be handed in on 13th Feb - only 5000 words to go!

Things to do when on msn and bored

As Gemma S and I are always complaining that we are bored when we are on msn and meant to be "working" we've come up with a couple of games that we play.
The first one is fairly easy: the quote game. All this involves is coming up with a quote from a film, song, tv show etc and getting the other person to guess where its from.
My favourite quote to use is "exercise gives you endorphins, endorphins make you happy, happy people just don't go round shooting their husbands" and another one from the same film "if I want to be a partner in a law firm by the time I'm 30, I need a boyfriend who's not such a bonehead!".
The other one we play is actually pinched from a friend of KT's I think. We like to call it the love/lunch game. All you do is think of a song with the word love in it and change it to lunch and see if it still makes sense. The best example is "All you need is lunch", though there is also "The power of lunch", "addicted to lunch", or "I want lunch". There are of course other examples to use, and other words to subsitute for other words for example, before Christmas we changed you for Christmas Pudding, and other festive things. You'd be suprised how much time we can waste doing it!
By the way the quotes come from Legally Blonde.

Sparksy the Spider!

At long last I've managed to get the pictures of the display I did on my first placement, way back in November. Tracy and I did one on SP SPL and SPR words, so we thought, why not use a spider, but when it came to naming it, Tracy thought Sparky, but I suggested Sparksy. I'm sure the legend that is (Sir) Gordon (of) Sparks wont mind!
We then got the children to write words beginning with either SP, SPR or SPL on the flies which my sister designed so we could stick them round the border. We also added a few other bits and pieces that started with those blends and got them to write the correct blend on the card in front of it. The kids loved it.

Leicester!

I have now got back from staying at my grandparents - and what's more - we all survived! It is a close thing though. At one point when I was going through to cook my dinner (put the ready meal my Gran had bought me - as they had a main meal out - in the oven) my Grandpa did say "Does she know what to put it on?" My Gran said "I expect she can read dear!" I thought the cheeky sod! Plus, he complained about how dirty my car was - just because it wasn't as clean as his was, but then mine actually gets used! On Sunday we drove to the school so I could see the route, and he kept saying things like "now you need to indicate here" etc - I was thinking - I do know how to drive. I did pass my test in 2000.
Apart from that, school was lovley, children were fab, teacher was great etc, so on that front it was great!
Now its back to college - and we are all exhausted!

Sincil Bank

Today I went to Sincil Bank, the home of Lincoln City FC to watch them take on Barnet. I already dislike Barnet because they put Argyle out of the Carling Cup in September. Barnet took the lead but Lincoln managed to score 4, much to the delight of Gemma G (a mate from college who is a Lincoln supporter) and the other Imps fans. It was nice for me to be at a football match where I wasn't particularly worried about the result - compared to normally when I'm virtually inconsolable when Argyle lose!
The ground itself was ok, nothing special, but decent enough for a League Two club. The attendance was only about 4000 - which reminded me of my early Argyle days - back in the old Div 3 (now League 2), when attendances at Home Park were only about 4000, particularly on a Tuesday night.
That brings the tally of grounds visited so far to 13 - with 79 to go!
On another note - I want to say to someone - you know who you are - 1-0, get in there Harry Kewell! hehe
So, other stuff - college: well on Friday the 13th (what a day to have them!) we had subject audit exams, basically testing us on our subject knowledge in English, Maths and Science. We all came out of the Maths exam thinking we had done well, the English one thinking we had done ok, and the Science one thinking - pants that was rubbish! we will def be doing the resit!
Ah well, we wait and see.
Tomorrow I drive to Leicester to stay with my grandparents as I am on placement in Leicester for a week so we can get some multi cultural experience. A week without the internet. How will I cope?
See you all when I get back.

Cups!

Well this weekend saw the first FA/Tennant Scottish Cup action for my teams this season. Yesterday I went over to Wolves to see the Wolves vs Argyle game. Um, yeah well, never mind! We played shockingly! We did only lose 1-0 though. I have just about thawed out now. It was snowing in Wolverhampton yesterday afternoon, and we were freezing.
On the way back I was getting texts about Luton vs Liverpool game. Now, as an Argyle fan I'm not particularly fond of Luton - all because of their former manager Joe Kinner, so I was not that happy when Luton went 3-1 up. However, I was much happier when I got the final score which said 5-3 to Liverpool. When I phoned up Owen to discuss both games, he said how stupid I was going to watch the game and I would have done better staying at home and watching the Liverpool game. He also told me about the spectacular nature of Xabi Alonso's goals. Having watched them this morning - he was right. His second one was out of this world - from half way inside his own half! If you haven't seen it - shame on you.
This afternoon I settled down to watch Clyde vs Celtic in the Scottish FA Cup. The least said about it the better. Ben Kay sums it up quite nicely in his text to try and wind me up - "Celtic: out played and out witted. Clyde: out standing out of this world- Celtic: quite simply OUT!
Now I am watching Burton Albion take on the might of Man Utd! The magic of the FA Cup.

Single carriage madness

Over the last term and the start of this, I have noticed that there are mainly two types of drivers on the A15 (the road between Peterborough and Lincoln which I use most days during the week) at 7am.
Type 1 are the people that are not happy unless they are traveling at 70mph or above. We shall call these commuters. They hassle anyone going slower then the speed limit and sit on their tail until they can get passed.
Type 2 are the people that do not go above 50mph. We shall call them - the bane of my life! They probably think that they are being really safe and careful. However at that time in the morning all the rest of us get really annoyed with them and try and overtake them, some people getting really frustrated with them and try and overtake them where its not safe - causing accidents. Don't get me wrong - I'm not blaming them for the accidents, if the rest of us had a little more patience and only overtake when its safe to do so, or left in time, then we would all be ok.
Of the type 2 people, there is another sub group: those that go at 40mph. The road we are on is a major A road for flips sack - 40 is just stupid. I get sooooo annoyed with these and do end up yelling something like - "60 is a limit not an aspiration" at them (obviously they can't hear me). These people never overtake a lorry when they see them, making it kinda dangerous for us to overtake them and the lorry. This means that anything slower, like a tractor wanting to join the road often has time to pull out in front said lorry, thus making us all slower!
I'm kinda an inbetween person - mainly to be found going at 60 - like a good law abiding citizen!
The other traffic we get on that road are lorries - who I know can't go over 50, so I can't really have a go at them particularly the faster lorries, and blooming tractors, who again can't go fast, so can't really have a go at them either - they just slow us all up.
The trouble with the A15 is that it is single carriage all the way, and quite a windy, twisty road, so overtaking spots are few - I am getting to know them though. The trouble is that not enough traffic uses it to dual carriage it, which is kinda a good thing, but also really annoying.
Ok, and breath. Right rant over now. So how are you?

2005 - the year that was

So another year is over, and a new one has begun and with it a whole load of new year resolutions made but never kept. I managed to stagger out of bed to get to church at 9.15 on New Year's day, and I'm glad that I did. Martyn Shea (the rector at St George's - the church I go to) was talking about looking back and praising God for the things that happened over the past year. I said earlier that last year was crap - however there are many things that were fantastic about 2005:

• Making all the new friends that I have at college and my new Church
• Getting the place on the course that I wanted (eventually!)
• Spending time with all my friends in Plymouth and getting to know them better
• Growing closer to God through all the trials that I had last year - which is prob the best thing about 2005.
• Liverpool winning the Champions League in the most spectacular fashion (sorry - had to get that in!)

Martyn then went on to say that perhaps our New Year's resolutions should be that we pray that in 2006 we would have Jesus as number 1 in our lives and that everything we do, we would do it for Jesus. During that service we sang - All for Jesus, which again got me thinking that it should be my prayer and my resolution for this coming year. Will keep you updated if I manage to keep it!