C.E. Jottings

House Martins are back

The house martins are back again. On Sunday we are off for a week to the Pembrokeshire coast. I realised on Tuesday evening that in 17 months time, I shall be 65. It's mid-May. Nearly half a year slipping by already. Been a strange couple of weeks or so. Had some very stimulating conversations. Promising stuff, mostly. Ways of working. Ways of organising. Ways of managing. And some opportunities. Feels like Paces should change. One person I was speaking with... Read more →

Appeal on Facebook. Can you help me help a campaigning Mum?

In my very last posting (about the Ofsted SEN review) , I mentioned Julie Evett, a campaigning Mum who last year took on the media and this year is the subject of a documentary for the BBC. Now Julie needs some help herself. She writes on Facebook: "Julie Evett had to give up being a normal decent taxpaying citizen in January to care for Rose, now Im having to pay privately to try and get a diagnosis. She has been... Read more →