Mrs Sensible and I are a little shy, we haven’t posted any pictures of ourselves, well apart from that nude selfie that caused a little bit of a stir a year or two ago. The link can be found here for those perverts that missed it. It has taken over a year for Mrs Sensible to forgive me for posting our nude selfie.
On Tuesday afternoons, I visit a local primary school and spend a couple of hours with some fabulous chilblains children, helping them with their English. My motivation for helping at the school is completely selfish, I go because I get paid in smiles, little letters and drawings.
So for you entertainment here are a couple of pictures drawn by the children.
As you can see there is not an inch of fat on my muscular body, the artist even managed to capture my designed stubble.
This artist is trying to minimalist the drawing to capture my radiant smile.
As you can see, I smile a lot. I am also tall, slim and incredibly handsome. That diet paid off
What more can I add? I am tall, thin and very very beautiful.
Here is a picture of Anna who is their teacher, this picture was obviously drawn at 9.00 am on a Monday morning, just look how calm and in control she is.
This picture was drawn at 4.30 on a Friday afternoon, can you see the way the artist has captured her slightly manic grin. If you look closely, you can see under the grin the artist had drawn a un-smiley face and then thought it was safer to give Anna a smiley face.
No children were hurt in the making of this post.
A gold tie? You have a GOLD TIE? Wow. That must be heavy. Given the smile on those pictures, you were a real blast for the kiddos. Do you really have 10980’s epaulettes on your jacket? So Spandau Ballet, sigh. Mrs Sensible is absolutely gorgeous and has obviously trained her hairdryer to perfection.
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Hi MM,
The teacher is Anna, a friend of Mrs Sensible. I hope you don’t start a who is more beautiful jealousy thing going between Anna and Mrs S 🙂
I am trying to be an Italian, so I have had to up the fashion stakes, no flip-flops and jeans. I try to make an effort for the kids.
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I want a picture of Mrs Sensible. Can you draw one, please?
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Me….. I just do stick figure drawings. I will ask the kids.
Actually, I sneaked a picture of her into one of my posts a long time ago 😉 I will send you an e mail with a link…
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Cool beans. ta muchly 😀
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I second your suggestion. I was also looking for Mrs Sensible – I know she must be a gorgeous lady 🙂
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I need to think how to do this, I might ask the chilblains to paint one for you
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i love your pictures and love your reward for being in the classroom. there is nothing better. when i first began teaching, i was in an inner city school and the population was entirely african-american. when they drew me, i somehow became african-american too, and i loved it because it made me feel like they accepted me, and saw me as one of them, not so different. ps – i love the snappy outfits.
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Acceptance is brill 🙂
Tuesday is the highlight of my week, It is a small village school with a mixed age group 7 – 9 I think.
Last week the 5 year olds came up to the classroom to sing me a famous English song they had learnt. I was nearly in tears as they sang Jingle Bells
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the best! and yes, that is a famous english song – i work with 4 and 5s every day and they are my people. i have found my long lost tribe.
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Me too, Mrs Sensible has said I have never grown up, perhaps that is why I get on with the kids so well
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Kids draw the best things! You might have just planned the activity for my next 4-6 year-old class. Also, if we get a particularly good drawing, can we use that in our driver’s licenses and such? Anything has to be better than what they take at the DMV.
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I think we should be allowed to use it on the driving licence. It is amazing to see how kids see us.
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You are the best and good looking too. I like the your great sense of humor. Kids love folks that can make them smile. I can imagine the fun they had drawing you and as well as their teacher. The drawings are priceless, 🙂
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I am good looking and modest, we have a great time on Tuesdays. I am a little worried that they will think all Englishmen are as mad as me
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You look like a young Colin Firth!
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I especially like the young bit. 😉
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Awesome drawings! They beat my artistic skills. They all have lovely handwriting as well 🙂
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They beat my drawing skills as well. I am still at the stick figure stage
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You are so photogenic PN 😀
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I know, I always thought I looked a lot like Tom Cruise
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Well, blow me down, you really are very very beautiful, apparently! And so slim! The chilblains must look forward to Tuesdays with the madman, also.
The last drawing of the teacher with the edited smile is a cracker.
Are you going to make us dig through the archives to find Mrs S., or will you at least give us a month and year to save valuable prosecco sipping time?
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Very very beautiful. .. The hunt for the pic of Mrs Sensible might be a clever ploy to get you to re read my old posts. As you know I am a stataholic and every view counts. It is Tuesday today and I am on my way to see my chilblains
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Um, gold tie??
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High fashion in Italy
24 carat
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I’m sure the flip flops really set it off 🙂
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Lol. If only
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Hai una testa tanto piatta e piccoli occhiali…I’ll look out for you in Piemonte!
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I will be in the local cafė 😉
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You know PN I was a high school art teacher for 31 years. . .my alma mater has their Italian abroad program in beautifully quaint Cortona in Tuscany – – -great place for a delicious tomato flan if you’re ever in the mood—so I must say that the kids have a wonderful eye, right down to your pointy shoes 🙂 molto buona
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They are wonderful children. Oh to be young again… I also think teachers should be paid more and treated with more respect from the government. . They have the lives of our future in their hands. (Quite profound for my blog)
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I will take a snip of credit for this new found depth 😉
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Fabulous likeness PN!! Love these pics and look forward to more!!! ;o)
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I love the way one child drew you with round glasses and the others with square ones. Do you have two pairs or was one child telling you in his/her own way that the square ones should be round? 🙂
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To look intelligent in front of the chilblains, I swap my reading glasses for my normal glasses. oh the horrors of getting old and decrepit
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Very… stylish… am suitably dazzled… but please, please promise to do your best to save the world from excess “gots”!
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oops too many gots, They are learning very basic English, to pass the test in May they have GOT (LOL) to be able to describe different things ie their house, people, family etc. The school teaches, ‘he has got a gold tie and he has got brown eyes’. I am supposed to help them to learn how to pronounce the words properly. I try to increase their vocabulary but I have to be careful not to contradict the way the school teaches English or it causes confusion.
Italy may have many faults, but it is teaching English from an early age and for many subjects, English is included..
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I do get what you’re saying. If I were plonked in your place, I probably wouldn’t interfere with the status quo either. It’s just that your post triggered memories of all the useless crap I was taught and then had to unlearn…
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Did you have them do this exercise for learning or because you wanted to really see how the children see you! LOL! You know, children are honest 🙂 But it looks like you made a very good impression on them!! You must be one of those cool teachers 🙂
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The little chilblains were practicing colours and items of clothing. I described my clothes to them and they had to draw a picture and describe me.
They are fab children and I try to make my part of the lesson fun.
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You are very special PN but then most of us already knew that!
Mrs. S is a lucky woman.
(and now that you’re blushing… you can describe that to your class)
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I think Mrs S tolerates my crazy life. If she had her way we would be living in the UK
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You get some education in the Italian too, when you are together with the kids 😉
Nice drawings and easy to see that the kids respect you by their drawings. I hope that you enjoy these days too.
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Gold tie??? With those boots??? WOW!
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