Casual relief teaching is very much such an animal. Term 1 this year was a famine, with offers of gainful employment very hard to come by. It got better in T2 anbd now, in T3, I’m beateing them off with a stcik. Of course, Winter is always the busiest with colds and ailments aplenty.
Schools are incredibly unhealthy places in which to work, most parents thinking nothing of sending patently ill children to school where they can cough and sneeze all over everyone else and spread their various infections around. So it isn’t surprising to see teachers falling foul of this in the colder months.
Next week I’m off to Canberra for 3 days, helping to supervise a group of Year 6 kids on school camp. Second shovel on the third furnace seems a more attractive proposition and you don’t get paid anything extra for being on duty 24/7 while school camps are in progress either.
Oh well, suck it up and think of the bank balance, I guess.
Still no official confirmation on the new Honda V4, but controlled leaks from within the factory and Honda’s PR department now seem to suggest a 3-pronged attack, with the first release being a shaft driven V4 1200cc to replace the Blackbird AND the VFR, a “full dress” tourer a little later to replace the ST1300 and, late next year, a V4-engined multi-purpose bike to take on the BMW GS series. All look to be sourcing the common engine with the ST replacement going for the most sophisticated approach with a dual-clutch gearbox (think pre-selector) and lots of electronic gimmickry. I hope they leave the VFR replacement alone and just give us 1200cc and about 190bhp in a good frame and not too much weight.
It’ll be priced out of my reach, but I’m still anticipating. Oh well, the chores are nearly done, it’s up to the Pie Shop, I think.
And, on the subject of feast and famine, I just did the lap. Weather was good and the traffic was minimal, but the mojo was stangely lacking. Isn’t it funny how sometimes you are really in the groove and somethimes you’re not. Can’t explain why, but it just didn’t “flow” today.