Hello there,
Thank you very much for your kindness in your comments on my tribute to WOMOTM. I really appreciate you taking the time to read a long essay on my most happy memories of him.
The funeral was yesterday and whilst it was very sad and hard to say goodbye to him, it was a fitting tribute to him and a good number of people turned up to pay their respects- at least 70. It was nice to see some people I haven't seen for a while and also to see some lovely pictures of WOMOTM over the years.
We returned from Northumberland today. It took a tedious amount of time and we have returned home to a boiler that is not working. We had issues with the same stupid Valant boiler at our old house but at least we had an electric shower there so warm showers were always possible. Here we don't have that option. Oh the joys of winter and boilers. I honestly believe these companies make these devices with built in faults to make you call out an expert. Sigh.
Anyway, I thought I would share a post to a picture that I found when I was looking for photos of WOMOTM. It is a photo from my first year of teaching. We started by studying the Ancient Greeks in Year 5 and so I framed the display board with pillars and Greek inspired architecture. My LSA made this Greek-looking lettering in gold for me and I loved it. It made me smile to find these images and remember the utter dread of making these papier-mache masks- not my idea I hasten to add, but my parallel year group partner. I loathe Papier-mache and I remember the utter mess it made- door handles and all conceivable surfaces had a layer of wall-paper slime. Utterly disgusting! I've pretty much avoided papier-mache ever since thankfully!
I found one or two other pictures too so I might share these memories at some point.