I have had a very good day today filling in application forms online for several jobs working with learning disabled people. There are a couple of applications to fill in with pen and paper that are to be done tomorrow after I have printed them out. It feels good and is absolutely the right thing to be getting on with, with regard to the working side of my life. It has been a bit tricky knocking up my CV because I have been a househusband for the last 20 years but my experience working with learning disabled people in the 1980s as well as the music therapy work I did in various psychiatric hospitals at the time, including a stint where I was actually paid for doing it for once by the WEA, Workers Educational Association, is putting me in a good light. This work was offered to me at the time by my former A-level Sociology teacher from Darlington College and it came out of the blue whilst I was at York University and the money was very handy.

It is really good applying for jobs using the Internet and I can see vacancies just arise by the time I have got to the bottom of the webpage when something has come up at the top of the page as a "New Job". It feels good, looks promising and is the best I have felt about the "What am I going to do now Fiona is retiring from teaching and the lads need very little input from me any more?" issue, in a long time. I still haven't quite given up on the mathematics teaching and I am also looking at Teaching Assistant jobs but going my observation of what the teaching assistants did in a local secondary school a while back there may be too much typing for me to do there as well.