Just Trying to be Better than Yesterday: July 2011

This Blog has been good to me but I'm moving. Transferring to Wordpress. Hope to see you there.

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Welcome to my Blog!

I'm an English teacher at a Secondary School in Scotland. I've been teaching for eleven years now and only now beginning to feel reasonably competent. I love learning, reading about others learning and continually trying to improve. I live in Glasgow and have a season ticket for Partick Thistle. Please don't laugh; and if you don't know who Partick Thistle are they are the sleeping giants of Scottish Football. I'm just learning along the way, just trying to be better than I was yesterday.

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Just Trying to be Better than Yesterday

Friday, 8 July 2011

Moving On

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