grace

she's asleep in my bed, my dinah is taking this opportunity to stay away, also because her mum is away so her & Wfloopy shaman are having a lads night in as they call it... generally involves playing hogs of war, smoking, deriding keyboard players...

my journey to brighton was productive... partially marking the essays i need to mark, working out the groups for the composition task they start on monday... oh this part of the module, splitting them up to write and then just leaving them to it... drifting around resolving issues if necesary... sorting out equipment... drinking tea & eating cake...

sadly my apprentice J won't be there to share the experience, trying to persuade me to watch battlestar galacticor, opening both our minds to the learning of teaching, which he's near the beginning of & i'm a little further on but still with much to learn...

picked up grace just as josiah was about to sing in her gospel outfit, led by gospelK... they were great, although i spent too much time worrying about the girl to really get into more than a few moments... i love having her, but mixed in with social situations like that today is not so nice for me...

we drank a bit of wine after while grace ran around with some new friends... got chatting with R, R who had driven josiah's stuff away a few weeks back... i'd love to get drunk with that lot some day, they are a lot of laughs...

then josiah took me to gresham & blake where i picked up a couple of nice shirts for sunday & monday nights... (had to get two because we didn't back to london quick enough to catch the dry cleaners where my intended shirt for tomorrow night is)

after which grace and me swanned back up to london, no tantrums yet... played with the magnetic theatre again, started a wall marking how tall she is... ate, bathed... bedtime stories...

and now i've got a pizza on its way from la parma somewhere north of here.. unknown quality... if only la porchetta would deliver... just like jai's, such good quality food but steadfastly collection or eat in only...

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