Well, I managed to stagger to the end of the week and it's been very stressful. The child has been put in a parallel class for 2 days and will return to me on Monday. Terrific. I feel like a swan at the moment, all calm and quiet above water and paddling furiously and slowly drowning below it. Management are running about like headless chickens demanding paperwork-some of which I've never heard of and expect it by Monday. I haven't even learnt the children's names and still they want a seating plan!(Amongst a million other documents.) I'm not afraid of work and I am prepared to do my

Started at my new contract today and had the day from hell. For the first time ever I came close to just walking out and quitting teaching for good. I was expecting it to be difficult- I'm teaching in a very depressed area and the kids have lots of issues but I had underestimated how tough it could be. It hasn't helped that the school is in Special Measures- management must be responsible for the decimation of the Rainforest,judging by the amount of paperwork I've received- but the bottom line is that the school has major behavioural issues with a significant minority of kids across the

It's all getting hectic now - back to work in a new job, kids back to school, trying to sell the house, kids unsettled, worrying about money, where are we going to live, I need to resurrect my career, how am I going to afford this all. And no boys don't tip out that box of Lego onto the floor! (they are actually being disturbingly good about keeping their rooms clean) And when I go to bed exhausted but unable to sleep I keep imagining STBX & OW in bed together, working through the Kama Sutra, booking their A-reserve concert tickets & romantic escapes away, waiting for my hard unpaid