Up and out early for lacrosse and the all important School Open Day. I was asked and accepted the invitation from the "management" to attend as a parent and to chat positively to potential parents and girls - not difficult as Hannah loves the school and we see the worth, daily. Their match was delayed to coincide with visiting parents and I left before it started, to be assigned to the Art Department - much more up my street, as last year I was in the Physics Department. I also took the opportunity to sit in on Miss Juett's address (on the balcony) - something we actually missed on the Open Day we attended with Hannah three years ago - how time flies!
Shot with Sony Ericsson w850i 2Mb Cybershot
As always one needs to gauge the "sales pitch" with each new family as they come through and I hope I was informative and useful in my role. At about 1225pm we called it a day and I was escorted to the Dining Hall where refreshments and familiar faces waited but no sign of Hannah. I was encouraged to visit the spanking new 6th Form Centre by Soibhan and Vera, especially and curiously the Ladies toilet and the lilac decor . . . After finding the obvious doors locked, I worked my way in through the main school entrance and the corridor past Miss Juett's office into the new centre. Taking in the hotel like interior design and the waft of new carpets, I found my way through to the new Media Centre, neutrally decorated and impressively equipped with three 24" iMacs!!! Sorry - did you just read iMacs??? Yes you did - and the wonderfully determined and far sighted teacher that has stuck her neck on the line to have these installed is Miss Harriet. As Hannah said to this lady, as we discussed this step forward - "the revolution has started"! Maybe by the time Hannah reaches the 6th Form, the centre might be all Mac . . . ?
Finished and fired up because of the Mac inclusion in the school we returned home at 1pm to a waiting and welcome BIG breakfast and this was dispatched with almost indecent haste. Strangely, Hannah was straight into her homework, only punctuated by the breakfast and returned to the desk immediately after dispatching the sausages, bacon, beans and soda bread! I managed to take slightly longer and we turned our attention to how to fill the afternoon and we eventually set off for a northerly drive that eventually took us towards ASDA, north of Watford. Due to Tesco's incompetence we needed to supplement the online shopping and ASDA delivered - well they didn't actually deliver, we had to go there and shop! Our route out of Harrow towards Watford took us up past the Grimsdyke Hotel and the view over sunny Harrow was one of the clearest ever. A swift right turn into the car park and a few frames later and we have the image below, including a Beoing 747 enroute to Heathrow.
Canon G9, full zoom and black and white mode.
