Here are some swans 

Hello. It's February now, and Bordeaux is picking up in the general weather and work stakes. I have failed dismally at sticking to my 'less than 30 mins on the internet a day' resolution. My eyes are now feeling pretty messed up. I've been posing the new year's resolution question to students, and they have been pretty obvious, with the exception of the guy who said he wants to sell his bike and use his car more. Fair enough.

I am currently procrastinating from lesson planning by updating my blog. I should be preparing a two hour lesson on illegal downloading and file-sharing and the like. Time is running out.

Music is going particularly well at the moment as we are rehearsing loads more than normal. This does have it's problems as evenings get eaten up, but then we are searching for the greatest offering to music since Stiltskin, so we musn't grumble, we must focus Daniel son.

Went to Basque country the other day for a mini holiday in the Basque country which was just perfect. Here is the farm/hotel if you're interested, and the room was Socoa-

http://www.ostalapia.com/chambre_fr.html

The French part of the Basque country is beautiful with diverse geography for such a small area. From the farm we could see the purplish Pyrenees mountains, and a kilometre the other way are some beaches. We'll go back in the summer to see what it is like. Probably more full of tourists.

Oh, and I drove back from Biarritz. Was really weird driving on the right (wrong) side of the road. Kind of fun though. Less fun in a rented car, but fun all the same.

Ben x