Well, it’s been snowing here.  The school was closed today for pupils and staff and I can’t say that I’m sorry.  It’s been a long, busy, hardworking and stressful week with the inspection going on.  Few of us were seen – just 25 lessons from over 70 staff.  The reporting back is delayed until next week due to the closure today, but at least the evidence collecting was done before the school closed so we won’t have to face this again for a while …

I am shattered.  I have very mixed emotions about the inspection and the great sense of aloneness/loneliness I felt throughout it all.  I found it hard to not put an enormous amount of pressure on myself to do more and more and more as others around me were doing more and more and more to dazzle and impress.  No wonder everyone is exhausted and many looking haggard, increasingly so as the days went by.

I had little time for art, little time for myself.  I’m exhausted today, teary, with the negative self-talk in full force at times.

I did manage to get a little art done.  These two are my efforts.  Both around 6″ x 8″ (15cm x 20cm) in size.  One worked with Rotring pens, the other with an ultrafine Sharpie.  Titles for them, ‘Flowing from the heart’ and ‘Flowing from the heart 2’.