I'm able at last to announce that I got the job I was interviewed for last month. I heard the next day, but I couldn't say anything publicly before school parents had been told so... although a few folks heard by word of mouth, many did not! I start as Depute Head on 7th January, so a new challenge and a new year! I'll be non teaching for the first time and will be based in my own office... in the words of a colleague."How cool is that!"
Went down to see my Dad the other weekend in Hampshire which is a bit of a trek. He's getting old which is hard to see, but is generally content. My sisters and I are each going down for a weekend about once every month to see if we can help out a bit. Middle sis has taken down a lilo, but I think my size shape and extra years make that hard for more than one night so I spend one night in a B&B and the other on the lilo!
I heard today that I'm not going to be able to go and stay in my little house in Perumalpuram when we go to India next year 
. Sadly I'm going to have to look for somewhere else. I'm going out with husband and number 2 daughter for a holiday. They'll come back after two and a half weeks and I'll stay on to work in the school for the next 3 weeks.
C and I managed to break the back of the worst of the Christmas shopping at the weekend and C has gone north with the pressies for that direction to wrap and deliver and I'm getting stuck into the rest. Ribbon, sellotape and wrapping paper rule at the moment!
