This is another one of those weeks where it has been busy without many special events, just the mundanity of life. When life is full of Instagram images of everyone having amazing times, it is easy to forget that this is a curated medium and real life is simpler and sometimes a little bit dull.

This year, I have been reading lots, with Mr S going to bed early each night, I am switching the television off at 7pm and putting on my music and doing school work, such is the life of a teacher, and then either browsing Vinted, my new guilty pleasure, or reading. I am averaging a book a week and this week’s Us Three by Ruth Jones was read in far less time. It was a great story and with a significant part set in the 80s a great nostalgia treat. I did laugh when the characters went to a club in Cardiff which I frequented in the 90s, it hadn’t changed with time! I really admire Jones’ writing from one of the writers of my favourite comedy Gavin and Stacey (and please may the Christmas special rumours be true) to her novels, she never disappoints.

On Monday, I was on football training duty with my son. It is a fair trek to the county town but it was a beautiful sunny spring afternoon and the later sunset was spectacular. It was a treat to see my son train and enjoy his football. I will be on similar duties until Mr S can hopefully drive again in June. This cannot come quick enough as he is not the most patient passenger.

Life is so mundane this week that 2 of my 5 are work related items. I really enjoyed a lesson I taught on Welsh love spoons in which we made our own. It was one of those magical lessons where everything seemed to come together and our soundtrack of popular songs sang in Welsh was beautiful. Secondly, we are embracing world book day next week and busy creating our costumes. My class has chosen Alice in Wonderland and I’m the Mad Hatter. On Saturday afternoon I headed to the random little junk shop which has a rail of clothes for £1. I am going for mad, clashing designs and bought a velvet jacket and stripy blouse for just £2, my hat and wig has also arrived and are fabulous, I am also going for crazy odd knee length socks and odd trainers, its certainly a look!

My final thing this week was a trip on Saturday morning, yes I gave up my weekly parkrun,to go to the open day of the college my daughter hopes to go to. It was interesting and the course does look great. I was delighted to get a few freebies, teachers are always on the hunt for free pens, pads and a tote bag, all indispensable to our daily work!