Happy World Book Day!

Today was pretty action-packed as library days go. My colleague L and I had 5 classes visit the library between 9.30 and 2 pm and as most of them were big classes we had to split them - which meant we did around ten separate sessions of library talks, poetry and stories. It was tiring but fun. Most of the kids and their teachers had dressed up as book or film characters and they looked fantastic.

In the afternoon we had a talk for adults from author Anthony Peake and in the evening the adfult reading group discussed "Catcher in the Rye". We were shortstaffed so the day past in a blur but I'm pleased with how everything turned out. I had to miss S's parents evening but P went and said her teachers are pleased with her and her best subject is French!

After work I went to see JS and we took some photos. I called this pic "Phil decided to do a little dusting..." I love my feather duster. It's too gorgeous somehow to actually use for dusting! This is the first pic I've posted taken with my new camera. It's a Nikon D40 and P bought it for me at FOCUS. I am really excited to own a DSLR.

Tomorrow I have to take as leave - I have one day left to use before end of March and this is the only Friday I can take time off without taking us below minimum staffing levels. I hope it's sunny!

Russian dolls

I took this photo on Sunday after my Croc shots; playing around with DOF field/aperture again.

Yesterday P, myself and a a group of friends from the Corner went to the FOCUS photography exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. We had a really great day! From the first to last it was a really successful and enjoyable time - just a happy day in congenial company. We wandered around looking at the displays and chatting. I met a couple of people I'd only ever encountered online before and they were really nice. The day just flew by. We all spent some money and made a really exciting purchase ( must have had a rush of blood to the head!)

In contrast today was a work day. 35 parents and 37 babies attended Baby Bounce and it was hard work today. They were all chatting and two babies were screaming and I was hoarse trying to make myself heard over the din. Everyone is really appreciative though, which makes it worthwhile.We are becoming the victims of our own success however as the space we hold it in is now over-full and still new people keep coming. Am going to have to think about how I go forward with this.

The day ended badly for me; we spotted a guy accessing porn in our upstairs PC suite. Our software enables us to observe machines remotely and we do random checks all the time. He'd been warned for the same thing yesterday by my colleague. When I went to ask him to stop he at first denied it, then became abusive. We killed his connection and I walked away. He followed me downstairs; threw his library card at me and continued the abuse. Eventually he left but by then I was very shaken. It's hard not to be upset when you're being called a fat, ugly c*&t repeatedly as well as other things. His final shot was "you're an ugly woman; a really ugly woman" as he walked out the door. Stupidly, I was struggling not to cry.