If you visit these pages regularly you’ll have noticed that I haven’t posted in a while. That was because I’ve spent most of my time working long hours on my teaching qualification. Most nights working ‘til 10pm and often later. At school I’d spend lunchtime preparing for lessons and when the kids went home I’d have a huge pile of marking to do, before planning the next lesson. If I wasn’t working I’d be worrying about some lesson or other that still needed planning. When I was asleep at night I’d be pre-teaching the lessons I had planned. When I was awake I was so tired I just wanted to go back to sleep. It was making me more and more miserable and the thought of having my own class next year and maybe double my current workload was filling me with terror. I just couldn't do this. So after several stressful meetings with my tutors I’ve decided to drop out of the training. Something that’s both a huge disappointment and a massive relief. Today I packed up all of my coursework, planning and materials into a big box and put it in the loft. It feels good. So that’s that. I’ve now got a few months to work out what to do next. Oh yes, the missing photos. I had been taking the daily pic, but with no time for the processing and posting, they stayed in the camera. I’m not sure if I took anything worth looking at, but I’ll see if I can fill in the gap tomorrow.