… All my 14 exams are now over! Gone well I reckon! More specifically Geography went very well, got finished just in time, good paper. As Ramsay would say DONE!
News today - Tesco share holders are voting as to whether Tesco should adopt a fairer animal welfare policy on chickens - finally. Still at Sainsburys however they still seem to have too many of the badly reared chickens No news about a more local Waitrose either!
Looking dead hard for a job at the moment, but I think I have one in the pipeline! :-)
Architect came yesterday to look about our extension - his plans sound good, anyway looking forward to that happening. Also went to pizza express / Derby with Chris on Wednesday as well as planning London.
Coming up in next few months …
2 visits to London
Staying with cousin nr. Oxford - maybe go to Milton Keynes, Oxford and Bicester Village!
Cousin staying with me - maybe go to York and Birmingham
iPhone 3g on PAYG
Holiday in Mallorca - luxury villa and hotel [keep carbon footprint low this year LOL]
Thanks to Tony and Ingrid for some great teaching over past 5 years!
Basically this blog is not going to be updated until end of June when I’m done at least, not sure what it will transform into yet maybe an A-Level Geog Blog!
Resource booklet in lessons at the moment so not worth blogging. I’m going to be too busy with GCSEs to bother with this now .
Just back from Center Parcs - a well earned break!
… well I’ve been literally mega busy the past week, with Technology Coursework, Our final piece of Geography coursework! and general work and revision. Add to that the fact I’ve also joined Virgin Active health club, where I gym, swim and spa, it’s been a busy but satisfying week.
All the Geography coursework is done which I’m dead happy about so I can go to Virgin more now! I have to say it was getting pretty annoying having to do so much. Maybe out of choice I would have picked WJEC, maybe not! My post 16 choices are sorted and most coursework has been nailed for every subject. We’ve got record of achievement on Friday which will be good!
In the news, Terminal 5 has gone pearshaped making the rest of Heathrow seeming almost relaxing. In my opinion this was a huge mistake opening it when it just wasn’t quite ready. So in Geography its the resource booklet until the exam now, it said on the exam sheet its 90 minutes, was that an increase on our mock?
All photos were taken by me and may not be reproduced.
Appearances from: The Legendary Hotel Guards at 0.06, Our Boat Crew at 1.11 , The VAT free floating shop at 1.30, Phillipe Stark 2 at 2.07 (Sub Captain) and Sega Dancers at 2.25.
I was in London on Saturday but didn’t take my Nikon D40 unfortunately, but I got a few snaps with my parents’ compact which are on Flickr. We went on an early train and went 1st class with breakfast which is great because you’re not starvin’ marvin when you arrive in London. We went to the Tower of London and saw the crown jewels and visited convent garden, regent street, burlington and piccadilly in the afternoon. A large percentage of the tube network was down so it was off 3 stops early and walk it. The whole of circle line was shut as was bank or monument tube station, can’t remember which. The new St. Pancras Station was looking great too. Going further back I went on the Nottingham Wheel/Eye at the start of February and those pictures on online too. Take a look.http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdstringy Any ideas about a desktop blogging program for Mac? drop me a comment please.
At the moment, in Geography we are completing our unit on culture. It’s pretty good, especially the current task on a global culture where we are examining evidence for and against global culture an the reactions to these. For example my favourite is the town of Tavistock, Cornwall who boycotted McDonalds’ arrival and forced the branch to close down. They couldn’t compete with the world renowned pasty shops! Yeah, my McDonalds boycott is going badly, I ate there today when on my way to Rutland for P.E also I don’t the population of Ilkeston would join seen as there is hardly anywhere else to eat. McDonalds is pretty pop culture and so is the town, I think from what I see on Wednesdays so it wouldn’t go down well.
However the arrival of ‘Subway’ has reduced some of McDonalds’ profits I’m sure. It amazes me - the power of the fast food chain, it takes some going to actually modify existing taboos and cultures such as walking and eating in Japan and having celebrations for children’s’ birthday parties forced upon them. I also hate Microsoft but that’s a long story of pain and error messages, I thought the market share was less than 92%, I don’t think a boycott of them would make any difference anyway! LOL and by the way I didn’t buy Office for Mac out of choice!
Not blogged for a while so this whopper should make up for it, been busy with revision, anyway me - Geography coursework, just done and hour of revision and had a break!
I’ve moved over from the dark ages of computing (windows) to computing bliss, a mac. I got it on saturday from John Lewis, it’s a 2.2 GHZ, 14″ MacBook with a superdrive aka DVD burner. It’s an absolute beast of a machine, so light but yet such as heavy weight performer. Transferring my files and music was painless thanks to an external hard drive and everything is compatible and working very well. So my mac experience so far has been fantastic, the new office:mac is compatible with all my existing files and works a treat. I love iLife 08 and have been laying down some tunes in GarageBand recently, iMovie HD is awesome to because it imports from my DVD camera via USB. ACE! Only problem is I realize how rubbish windows is when working at school.
It’s here the wait is over, it’s big, it’s back, it’s macworld 2008 at San Francisco.
We are doing a coursework project about multicultural Britain at the moment in Geography. Which is not bad really, quite interesting. We examined the benefits of living in a multicultural society. We looked at sports stars such as Kelly Holmes, Monty Panassar etc.
Right Let’s see what Steve is going to tell us about apple …
You have to sign up for Hugh’s free range chicken protest. You must pledge to buy only free range chicken from now on. The conditions cheap battery farmed chickens are living in are absolutely appauling. It’s just not right. I am supporting all Hugh (a new friend) is doing and good luck to him, he’s onto a winner here. It’s not just chicken either, you need to buy eggs from chicken who have lived healthy lives. I welcome and encourage all comments. So go on, please, drop me a comment.
Or
An average battery hen farm, These hens will live happy,
this is absolutely disgusting longer and healthier lives.
and should not be tolerated. They will see the sun !!
They will not see daylight. and enjoy life. The eggs taste super!
Pale colour egg. Bright yellow colour egg.
It’s Your Choice!!!!! Read on to find out about Broiler chickens.
Tom - What a brilliant site! I’m bowled over by your professionalism and grasp of the topics. I love it! - Mrs M
Great work Tom looking forward to this developing! - Mr C
Great site, keep it up! - Josh
I am very very very impressed and only wish my GCSE students could come up with something like this. You have inspired me to have a go myself! - Miss Whitham
No news about a more local Waitrose either! 
