Love is in the Air...

It's Spring.

I'm still at work trying very hard to motivate myself to do some marking. (My Year 10s just completed a test this afternoon on Romeo and Juliet).  Everybody else has left the English office as there's the Year 12 Valedictory Dinner on tonight so they all made a quick getaway. So I'm sitting in the office in my little corner, listening to... hang on a second, what IS that noise? It sounds like a quiet "whoop whoop" noise. 

So I'm looking out the window and I see nothing.  

Maybe it's Tony's shitipoo that I just met "Wiki". How adorable (and tiny) is this?

No, I don't think it's the dog.

I look outside again, and then I see it. 

It's Spring.

The pidgins in the courtyard are looking for a mate. Or more specifically the male pidgins are chasing the female pidgins around the courtyard with their little tail feathers fanned out while they make that soft "whoop whoop" noise.

Mystery solved.

I should get onto that Year 10 marking.

A Peachy Video

While our house getting burgled was a complete nuisance, we did end up with a sweet computer that allows me to make videos. This was something I composed last holidays, it's not the most exciting video in the world but it only goes for 48 seconds, so you'll cope. Plus, it was made by me!

A long absence

Ok, so there really is no excuse for my long absence from blogging, but i've been inspired by the writers on www.bloggingaussie.blogspot.com, so it's time to get back into it and there's no time like the present. (Except that when I decided that last week we ran out of internet money and so then I had to wait to get full access again!). 

Hopefully I will post interesting things about the following:

1) Our puppy Peach, I am a doting parent and seriously, it's pathetic, I mean, she's a dog!

2) Our house, there's lots going on and I would like some feedback too, we are gardening (or ripping things out and not planting other things, but it feels like gardening) and thinking of what to plant. We are also testing some paint colours this weekend, so it really is all happening on the house front.

3) I teach a subject called English Language and I'm keen to share some of the fascinating things that I've found out since I started teaching it earlier this year (as well as things I'm continuing to find out).

And because no post is all that interesting without pictures, here's some of Peach's latest:

Featuring today are a number of Peach's unusual sleeping positions, this is a cushion that she has precariously placed herself on, under a chair, under the dining table.

This is Peach on 'her' couch, rather than just sit on the base of the chair she's perched herself on the cushion on the chair, crazy dog.

Lastly, the ultimate sleeping position. On her back, head off to the side somewhere. This is the position she gets herself into when she's exhausted or when she's been sleeping for a while, who would have thought this was even remotely comfortable!