Warm.

It is still very warm. Having the alarm go off at 6.00 isn't so bad when the room is 20C /68F. (I'm not looking forward to getting up on cold winter mornings.) I've been teaching a Year 2 class for the whole day though for the second half of the afternoon I swapped classes to teach a geography lesson to the other Year 2 class while my class had PE. I'm doing so much swapping around that I still get the children's names mixed up especially as the same names turn up in nearly every class. Popular are the names; Thomas, Henry, Charley, Charlotte, Milly, Katie, Alex, Ellie, Jaiden and Max which appear at least once or twice in every class but often with differing spellings. I teach 90 children regularly so no wonder I get confused especially as the guided reading groups and the phonics groups contain children from 4 different classes. 

The roads on the way home were (relatively) busy with tractors and trailers rushing to and from the fields getting the silage cut before the heavy rains arrive. I too was rushing home to get the grass cut. As I drove around the blind bend in the country road a tractor came zooming up from the opposite direction but I was going slowly enough to stop and squeeze on to the verge. Funnily enough I had just been thinking " Suppose a tractor appears from around that corner." Safely home I cut all the grass so now the lawns look nice and tidy. Mowing is a very good way to clear all the fallen leaves. 

Yesterday's drive took us through the old market town of Crediton .