Fatgazbo is Fifty: Is it really so long since I posted?

Obviously it is.

The first couple of months of 2014 have gone by in an complete haze of (1) work & (2) Scouts.

Its been busy, busy, busy at the Academy as we prepare Y9 & Y11s for their GCSEs in May & June - loads of Controlled Assessments to mark (think I have about 60 to do just for my classes). Then there's preperation for this and that.

Then we get to Scouts - worked out that, even if you ignore the weekend camps, that I spend around 8 hours a week doing Scout stuff. Good for the soul and the possible MBE (nominations accepted) but the time always seems to slip away. So far, with Scouts, the big events have been a trip to London to so Runaround (a bit like giant Monopoly), a training trip in the Peaks (complete with rain/lightning/thunder) and bivvy camp - plus all the other stuff that we have done in the evenings.

In between all of these there was the odd bit of family time including the annual trip to the Lakes in February, something I have been doing since I was 14. The Lakes trip this year was different in several respects; firstly (due to school holidays) we were down several members and secondly it rained a lot limiting any high level stuff although we did have a cracking morning on Seat Sandal before the rain closed in!