October Photo Challenge Day FOUR

What you read - is the prompt for today.

being the pedantic English teacher and scholar that I am I of course dissected these three words. Firstly I wondered is it the past simple- what I read ('read' being an irregular verb and is the same in the simple past as in the simple present, only the pronunciation being different), but considered that if it were the past simple it would need a qualifier-- ie, what I read yesterday, or what I read last year. It clearly could be what I read this year as that would grammatically require the present perfect .. what I have read this year, this year still being current and unfinished. I therefore decided it must be the present simple -what I read -implying tradition or repetitive action, habit ie- what I usually read. Not: what I read now as that implies present continuous - what I am reading.... So after all these pedanticisms (Yeah I know that word doesn't really exist) I decided it means what do I regularly read and here we have it.... (although looking again at the books here, all the above tense could be used one way or another).

 Starting at the top and going clockwise:

• Recipe book(S) - always looking for inspiration, also read the Interweb for those too.
• My books -I read these as I write them, and then re-read them to edit and proof before releasing for sale.
• Novels- well this is the one I am specifically reading at the moment. I usually read about 20 - 25 novels each year.
•  My Diary -or I'd not remember what I was supposed to be doings when or where.
• School text books -I read them at home to plan lessons, then read them at school with the students.

Of course there are lots of things that I rad that aren't featured on 'my table of the day' - I read articles on-line, newsletters that pop through the door and online, internet sites that interest me, other people's blogs,  roadsigns when I'm out, the sky to gauge the weather, faces of people to gauge their moods etc... and so on etc .... So I guess I could say I read constantly ... what about you what do you read, and what are you reading now (apart from my blog)

Back to skool

Just a quickie to round off the day...
OK so day one of school 2012-2013 is well and truly over and out, and a very good evening it was too.
This evening I've had a couple of advanced classes, and despite my usual pre-term nerves all went well. So far I've some very keen and delightful students.
Tomorrow I'll be doing similar stuff, but with a different class, at a different level.
I am so lucky, and grateful, that I enjoy my job, and fortunately am good at it. 
Lucky, Lucky, Lucky.

October Photo Challenge Day THREE

Today's `prompt : 'This happened today'.

I had to get my thinking cap on for this one. Many things happen during the course of a day here at Casa TulStig, but none of them particularly photo-meriting. 
Things that happened today:

• Walking the dogs (photo on Instagram).
• House cleaning and tidying - no photos.
• Shopping at 'Hyper-Simply' supermarket - there were a couple of very interesting shoppers, but I don't think they would have appreciated me taking a photo.
• Tony's doctor's check-up. Tony defo wouldn't have wanted a photo.
• hour's siesta -sleeping so couldn't photo!
• Ah- Facebook, now that's a daily happening here, and one of the more cerebral things I happen on in there is 'Scrabble' ....

Getting Ready....

This morning I attended the first teachers' meeting of the year.  A couple of hours spent with the other teachers in the English department discussing the year ahead and more specifically the first lessons for each course which will take place over the next few days. I also got my timetable for the year, which is still open for changes over the next twenty four hours, but hopefully wont change too much.

After the meeting Julie, Tony and I had lunch in a local restaurant and enjoyed a couple of bottles of wine - a luxury we wont be able to have for the next few weeks- no drinking on school days- at least not before the lessons!

This evening I've been updating the on-line file for 'Take Two' and am almost finished with the edit. Hopefully I shall complete it tomorrow and then upload it soon after... Then I need to get on with some promotion, but without the niche market that 'The Magic of the Camino' has it is more difficult. This is what I have found with promoting 'Winner'.  If you've any bright ideas let me know....

I've also been 'messing about' with my new camera today too -and the animals have been coming in for a lot of attention, but they just wont sit still. However here's a pic of Cuddy that is almost 'good enough'...

I'm now off to do a bit of paper shuffling ready for tomorrow's classes...

October Photo Challenge - Day Two

And today's prompt was 'lunch'

After our first teacher's meeting of the year Julie, Tony and I went for lunch at 'La Parroquia' for a menu of the day- Carrot soup followed by Pizza rucula- and we left full to brimming...

Entertaining, and writing...

SO... October has hit the calendar, where did the Summer go, and more to the point where did the last nine months go? They do say that time flies when you're having fun, so I guess that has something to do with it, cos boy do we have fun.
The end of September was jam-packed with entertaining. Marion (Aka Hatty) and Rosie were in town for their first ever VnG visit so we were busy doing touristy things, as well as catching up on the years in between when we hadn't seen each other. It was great to note that although we've all aged we've hardly changed, and as for growing up - forget it -not on my agenda!!
We ran around sightseeing, ate amply, drank and laughed late into the night... isn't that just what entertaining friends is about.

 And on a literary note: I've spent a lot of the last couple of days finishing off the final proof/edit of Take Two. I've been through the book with a fine tooth comb, and have started updating the PC copy- next step to finish the updating of the on-line file and reload onto Lulu.com - then it'll be open for general sale... watch this space for further news....

October Photo Challenge -Day ONE

And so to a new month and a similar challenge...

I've decided to do a separate poss for the daily photo and then a different one when I have other news to share....Day one - Prompt: Where You Stood...

Well this is where I stood on September 14th 2007 to put a ring on my man's finger, and what a day it was...