Raff’s World

I did think that by now I would be doing more stuff on the life and times of a Primary school teacher with a particular interest in ICT but my own preoocupation is still my medical condition. Not so much the original pain, or the operation or the subsequent recovery but the people who have [...]

It was a close call. Taking off from Manchester airport  for Laura’s wedding five weeks and five days after the operation and three weeks and two days after 42 big meaty staples were taken out left little time for things that might have gone wrong to be put right. Everything however was fine and so [...]

It wasn’t supposed to be this but during a walk round Costco today I  realised that it wasn’t Perfectly Clear.
Cast your mind back to THAT SATURDAY and the events that took place because at the time of writing  I completely forgot that  I had put the blame on Perfectly Clear. 
It had become a favourite drink of [...]

I had £2.
All but one of the tubes had been taken out. The morphine drip, The wound drip tube thingy. The tube out of the nose. The antibiotic tube drip.The saline drip was all that was left. It went everywhere with me. 
My £2 Adventure was something to look forward to from the day before. [...]

I came close to killing him.
HE spent every single bit of Friday night, well Saturday morning really, muttering, fidgeting, turning the light on, turning the light off, going to the toilet, not going to the toilet, getting up, going back to bed….just about every single thing ………. I nearly killed HIM.
The only time [...]

In the words of the great writer Babette Cole from her series of books “The Trouble with Mum/Dad/Grandad/Grandma”  The trouble with blogging is that blogging ideas arrive at unusual times. 
So it was this morning. “Tubes up your nose and down your throat are especially yacky” came into my mind just as I was about to [...]

Five a side on Thursday night (11th December) was great. I played well. I can run which always means I can contribute but this time I played well as well. Luke said my goal was lucky and it was a bit, left footed and off the end of my toe, but I got there and [...]

Being off for so long reminds me of when a student arrives in your class. The first thought is I can’t wait to get all that stuff finally done in those six weeks of 80% curriculum time and then in the fifth week there is a sudden realisation that all of that stuff has not [...]

I now believe that it’s true that if you sit long enough then something will come along, and, eventually, it has. I’ve spent lots of time over the last few months,  watching, reading, gaming, being operated on, talking, twittering, computering, thinking, sleeping, and just being plain bored. 
It may be that starting negatively is being a [...]

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