Dear Kevin
Rob has installed both new Firewall and Norton antivirus. We're still waiting for AOL to send us the changeover kit!!

This is how I've been wasting time recently.

Sad news for me
My job at the primary school has fallen through. A problem about which department would pay me, so no job.
On the other hand
One of my favourite pupils is back! She's a retired History and Geography teacher, Madame Poulet (She calls herself Mrs. Chicken). She reads a lot and always has plenty to talk about. I do enjoy her lessons. I've also received the papers for the hours of exam surveying in December and January. One door closes another opens.........

On Green Dolphin Street II
I was absolutely amazed to read that Mary , the main character in the book, said that she felt privileged to be present when her Mother died. My sister said exactly the same thing to me when our Father died a little over two years ago. I found that particular passage in the book very comforting

What makes me mad
Rob is really kind. He sets things up for me to use on my computer. The only problem is he doesn't use the nickname, password or name that I usually use on all of my gadgets. I then have to wait for an e-mail to 'remind' me of a password that isn't mine, grrrrrrrr. All I wanted to do was sent a little free SMS to say 'Hi' to Christian

On Green Dolphin Street
By Sebastian Faulks is the book I'm reading at the moment. When I was making the 1955 list I was surprised to see Emmitt Till, he is also in the book. 'On Green Dolphin Street' takes place with the coming election of president Kennedy as a background. I don't know why I enjoy this period of American history so much. I've read 'Couples' by John Updike several times for the same reason. I also know someone else who goes back to 'Couples' again and again. Strange....

1955 a good year!

Lego was invented
Scrabble is started
Disneyland opened in California
Films: Oklahoma!, Love is a many spledored thing
independent television in the UK began
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

Not so good:
Ruth Ellis was hanged
Einstein died
Alexander Fleming died
Emmitt Till was murdered
The Nobel peace prize was not awarded

Also born: Rowan Atkinson, Bruce Willis, Bill Gates

Had a chat
with Dom, she says she hates the bus anyway and if her friend did ask her to do homework again she'd tell her where to go. A couple of years ago Dom was being harassed at school by one of the boys from my section, he was a particularly mean baddy very tall and rather 'large'. She soon got rid of him, she obviously has a way of meaning business. The boy was later sent to a closed school as he became too dangerous for normal schooling.

Cherry red leather knickers
(Now I'll get a few more hits)
Christian phoned from England to wish me a happy birthday yesterday. He asked me what presents I'd had so I told him some knickers and a cherry red leather organiser. My Mother-in-law was half listening the other end and started to giggle because she'd only picked up the leather knickers bit. As Christian was saying goodbye he reminded me that I've only got two years till I'm fifty, thanks Christian!!

I'm a bit worried about Dominique. She didn't want to go on the bus this morning. Last year I discovered that she was doing English homework for someone. This someone left her two messages on Wednesday morning which Dom didn't answer straight away as she was sleeping, I wonder if she's 'pestering' Dom to do her homework again. I'll talk to her tonight about it. Dom if you read this first, sorry, but I am worried about it.