Where shall I start?
Thu, Oct 1st 2009
I’ve been putting off starting this blog for ages. It feels like it’s:
- a) Yet another thing to do that will turn into a much bigger thing than I ever thought and will make me feel guilty I haven’t done it.
- b) It feels a bit vulnerable – what happens if no-one reads it? Will I know they’re not reading it? Will I be writing into a ‘vacuum’?
- c) Then I had a ‘balancing’ thought! As I get older I forget things. I’m in schools every day and every day I am either amazed, humbled, shocked, saddened, uplifted or thrilled. I’m lucky I meet so many goodhearted adults and lots of brave and funny children. Maybe if I keep a blog I won’t lose all the memories. I’ve never kept a diary, I never take photographs (my daughter does them all!), so maybe keeping a blog in my golden years will give me some way of remembering high and low moments.
- d) Or maybe I’ll just write it and get it off my chest and then never look at it again.
Ah well, who knows, life is like that – a real adventure!
Today I went for the first time to a top independent school. It had a long drive to an amazingly huge turreted manor house. The staff were very welcoming and keen to learn about the Golden Model. At lunchtime everyone walks over to a range of top class organic meals! I really piled up my plate. Even decided to have a big bowl of rhubarb crumble and couldn’t resist ladling on a huge dollop of custard. Sat at the top table, got to the pud – and honestly it tasted really odd. Sort of salty savoury. I carried on with more small spoonfuls – other people seemed to be enjoying it. Then I just couldn’t face it and asked my neighbour just to taste some for me. How embarrassing!! I had poured the leek and potato soup over my pud! When I walked back to the training room everyone was grinning. The story had flown back quicker that I could walk!
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