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Post Military Mutiny

 It wasn't a coup, it was a military mutiny.  It has been a strange time.  The school closed several times and we switched seamlessly to on line.  No snow days for us anymore!  As an art teacher, online teaching is pretty much a disaster! Many of you worried about us but the fiasco of British politics at present takes some beating.  The UK looks ridiculous.  Although behind the jokes and incredulous laughter, real people will be facing real hardship this winter... I went to Paris for a training workshop (IBDP Visual Arts Cat.1).  It was touch and go re flights right up until the day before.  The roads were clear to the airport and security nervously tight.  I forget just how lovely Paris is.  The workshop was intensive but in between, I took myself off for some Paris Power Walks.  We had an afternoon tasked with choosing images from an Alice Neel exhibition (for potential teaching tasks) at the Pompidou and I couldn't resist go...