Summer. Evening. Walks.

It's been far too long since my last post, three weeks or there abouts. We are so close, us teachers and Nursery Nursers and TAs and general school working/school going folks to the blissful emptiness and freedom of The Summer Holiday. So far I have very few set-in-stone plans for my six week break but I'm sure they'll fill up and fly by as they always do.

Before then however we have so much to do at work - school trips, sports days, transition days, final assessments, settling our last (and enormous) intake of the year and ticking those last few boxes to make sure all of the children are ready for their next stage (or as ready as they can be) not to mention the dreaded learning journeys (I am so far behind now that I don't know where to start!).

But then there are things like this...

So, for now, on my evening wanders I am content to let the madness and mind-melting business of life in school take a back seat while I find the greatest pleasure in the simple feelings of sunlight. And the gentle breeze and the subtle changes in temperature as I move from roadside to footpath to shaded woodland. Here my mind is allowed to leave the classroom and my computer screen behind. And my body loosens up and my heart pumps a little faster as I climb that steep slope or break into a run through this field just for the sheer joy of movement and space and air.

And when I return home I am more productive, more motivated and more energised to do those jobs that need doing - to wash those pots, to type that letter - mundane as they may be.

Let me never forget this feeling. Or how easy it is to reignite inside me. All I need is a little time and the wide open sky.

Happy. Summer. Evening. Everyone.
S. x