My first post

I have been thinking of starting a blog, inspired by our friend Ewan, who has started writing one recently. This evening seemed as good a time as any, while I am sitting with middle son Alasdair as he attempts to memorise his extended Higher History essay, which he tells me is 2700 words long. He will have to write it under exam conditions tomorrow, and he will have 2 hours to do it.

Anyway, when embarking on my blog I have to consider what I will put in and what I will leave out. I have decided to make it mainly about family life. I would love to write about my job as a teacher and part time Depute Head in a base for pupils with autism because it is a very interesting part of my life. However the issue of pupil and colleague confidentiality forbids, so this will be mainly about my life and that of my family and that's why I have called it Life at the Andersons.
I won't aim to write my blog every day because I want to write about events that interest me rather than a record of every day, which is what I tend to do when I write a diary. I feel obliged to fill it in daily so it can end up "Got up. Went to work. Tired. Had bath." which is not exactly enthralling, and if there is some world or home event that is very important to me there isn't room to write it in detail, for example "Set off on holiday. Felt excited." which isn't really adequate.
So I'm hoping the blog format will suit me better, although knowing me I will probably still tend to write it as a record of events.
This evening James is out at one of his hill-walking club's social evenings. Typically he said he wished he wasn't going out but I'm sure he will be enjoying it now he's there, the hill-walking club are a really nice crowd. Youngest son David has been upstairs working on his Macbeth essay. He has just read my post so far and he and Alasdair agree that nobody is going to read this blog! Eldest son Jamie is in Dundee where he is in 3rd year studying medicine. I phoned him earlier and he said he has had a very tiring day - doing a laparascopic skills trial by practising it on a simulator, as well as lectures and diagnosis skills. That's James in now so we're going to have a cup of tea :-) I hope Ally gets on ok tomorrow with his essay.