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A huge running smile today as I woke up early so made it to ParkRun at Kingsbury Water Park in spite of my busy week. And I should perhaps try to run as fast as I can when I'm exhausted more often as I broke my PB a minute, aided by the Valentines pacemakers. Having ended up at the back I was not letting the 28 minute sign out of my sight and chased it down, overtaking with just under 1km

to go and finishing in 27:18 officially (although I made it 27:10) 

And to cap it all, a red rose and Swizzel sweeties at the finish! 

And more flowers from John on my return. Lucky girl! 

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A trying day at work was made better by smiles from some of Y4 who I haven't taught since October and by a parcel on my desk when I arrived T work. And on my return home there was a bunch of flowers from our cleaner which made me smile. 

Still wish this had worked though - a genius idea if a little wishful! 

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Bluebells and a butterfly on a beautiful day spent writing (a post on my website) and reading (Pep Guardiola-another way of winning) 

That's top of my smile list but also on the list:

Dry washing, dried on the line. 

Curry for dinner. 

Snuggles with my poorly little boy. 

David Walliams' childhood game of lighthouses...

And this version of Happy with the Minions - especially the unicorn. 

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John is home! :0)

And he bought me some beautiful flowers. They smell delightful too. 

Funny comments of the day:

"You can switch to HD if you want, Jude, but it won't improve the quality of the acts!" 

"I've never heard the word 'deluge' before"

The long running saga of the glass. 

And I smiled broadly at the reaction of the Norwich fans who, in response to chants of "you're going down" from MUFC fans, shouted "Liverpool!" and sang "You'll never walk alone". Class!

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(Photo by Isaac) 

Bluebells (and a yellow weed I think!) by my swinging bench. Too dangerous to approach on crutches if I value my other foot so I'll wait until I can weight bear before having a closer look. 

Lovely tulips that I can see as John put them in front of the window! 

And finally John sent morning greetings from Mexico.

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Today is St George's Day, and in Catalunya it's San Jordi when women are given red roses and men, a book. I love roses but I'd rather have a book. Or perhaps both?

Anyway, I bought the boys a book each and they were happy!

Things that made me smile today -

I survived another day without going mad!

I finished a piece of work for BBC - I've been singing about being loco ever since!

The boys and their antics made me guffaw at points today - they certainly have great senses of humour.

The bluebells are out in the garden. Didn't get out to take a picture though as my back was too sore from crutches. perhaps tomorrow!

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Smile 1 - I slept last night.
Smile 2 - Jude has arrived safely in Belgium.
Smile 3 - I haven't fallen over (yet) on my crutches.
Smile 4 - I've done lots of blogging and not been too bored today.
Smile 5 - flowers from John.
Smile 6 - lovely messages on Twitter and Facebook about my predicament.
Smile 7 - a parcel with new things including unifix cubes

Smile 8 - a new series of Only Connect

Smile 9 - a small monkey in a tabard keeping me company

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Spring is here, the sun is shining and I've mowed the lawn for the first time in over two years.

Sad as we said #goodbyetoBev but lots of smiles too as it's hard to think of her without smiling such was her energy and zest for life. Every daffodil and dark chocolate Bounty will henceforth remind me of her. As will loud trumping ;)

And dinner at the Cock Inn. Delicious!

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Who says being a teacher is boring? You never know what you'll find going on in the hall as you walk through. I certainly wasn't expecting to find the head teacher doing the Dirty Dancing lift with the ICT manager (ably assisted for safety reasons by Y3 teacher and Y4 TA!)

Pretty impressive and certainly just what I needed on a day when I struggled to keep my Little Miss Sunshine smile.

Also cheered by a run and the discovery of a single daffodil in the garden. Think it's someone sending me a message?

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A very sad end to the day with the news that the hugely talented, every generous and always cheerful Bev Evans has passed away.  Her posse of teddies have kept us entertained during her hospital stay, getting up to no end of mischief on the ward. I'm really sad but whenever I think of Bev it makes me smile; she was that kind of person. A huge hole has been left in many many lives.

Miss you lovely daffodil xx

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I've been thinking about Fry's chocolate cream since Dave B mentioned them last weekend - and I found one in Wilkinsons. And I thoroughly enjoyed it as I sat in the sun this afternoon having run a race this morning.  

My ability to switch from struggling to put one foot in front of the other with 500m to go to sprinting across the line simply because Jac told me to 'come on' amused - and bemused - me no end. 

And discovering flowers in the garden. 

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Spring has sprung. Let's hope it sticks around as I personally like the sunshine!

To escape the paint fumes, Isaac wrapped up in several jumpers and a hat and sat by the open back door. He then tried to watch TV from the garden but was thwarted by being unable to undo the window as there was no key and he couldn't hear. So he came in and sat on the window sill next to the other window that would open!

The ongoing adventures of Harold, Maude and friends recounted by Bev (who is stuck in hospital bless her) continue to amuse me, as did a discussion about how it would be do much better to be in hospital of your doctors were JD and Turk from Scrubs! 

Liverpool won and are now 2nd in the Premier League. 

The Fulham manager's glasses are rather amusing too. 

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February 18th is always going to be a tricky day. But memories bring smiles as well as tears. Eating liquorice, steamed puddings for tea, yelling some choice phrases and stomping up the stairs to pretend-steal a cuddly dog all made us smile, as did our decision to stop short of causing ourselves injury just do we could apply the obligatory steri-strips that would so often be required after a "little mishap". 

Barcelona beat Man City watched by BBB (that'd meet with approval) and the Winter Olympics was spectacular. 

Couldn't find any yellow roses today but I have tulips and pictures. 

Love you higher than the sky Daddy x

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Being flat on my back with my back/hip in spasm and quite painful isn't going to stop me finding something to make me smile!

I've been looked after by my boys. Cups of tea with straws, liquorice bars appearing on my pillow as I snoozed, 'keeping me company' in shifts and flowers delivered to by the bed where I am currently stuck.

Norwegian curling trousers are very smile inducing too.

As was the Olympic spirit of Dario Cologna winning gold but insisting on waiting for the last man to finish so that he could shake his hand. 

A lovely moon too. 

And solving the mystery of how Clumsy Ninjas images kept appearing on my Facebook page also made me smile. Cheeky Harry!

Here's to more smiles and less discomfort tomorrow!

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The look on Jude's face as we discussed catheterisation.

The Pope is a cat-a-holic according to Milton Jones. And many other marvellous one liners.

The last of the Sprüngli chocolates.

Flowers from John.

All reasons to smile on a day at work that I can't say I enjoyed much.

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Meeting Yvette for a chat - and Prosecco!

A beautiful husky - I'm sure Jude wishes I'd bought it home!

Beautiful Zürich.

And dinner in a hut at the airport!!

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I still have a voice at the end of the day.

I didn't have constant battles with pencil case fiddling this afternoon - although I have now declared war on Tippex!

The sun was shining when I left school. 

It was GBBO night. 

All good reasons to smile. 

And I have a lovely bunch of flowers too. 

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Today I have smiled as two friends updated me on their lives post-ISW.

I smiled at the enthusiasm of Y3 to "play with" 2D shapes and write stories in my Spanish lesson.

I smiled when I found that I did have enough Spanish books after all - hurrah!

And I had to smile at the inability of some kids to talk 'quietly'; it seems that some just don't have a 'little voice' or a volume control.

Biggest smile? Looking out of Isaac's window and seeing that my very special rose bush, that has lasted nearly 2 years without me looking after it and looks in need of some TLC, has a yellow rose on it. Love you Dad x

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Pansies on my doorstep - that looks more like home! Only took a week for them to make their way into the pot - and I'm just glad they survived 36 hours in the boot of the car...

Orange eyes thanks to the opticians caused smiles - not necessarily mine!

Posting things on eBay caused stress but also some smiles as the boys tried to value the items and decide on the opening amount!

And having been utterly bamboozled and thoroughly depressed by HMRC, I was cheered to find some of my leaving cards and had to smile at the child you wrote 'I will miss your smile. It's the only thing that made Spanish lessons worthwhile.' I don't think she meant it the way it sounds but you never know...

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I'm not doing very well on the photo taking at the moment as I'm not out and about very much.

I can't even get a third of the way down my garden for fear of hurting my foot further.

So I'm relying on pictures BCH (before Switzerland)

I can see these from the part of the garden I can reach.

I can see this in the distance growing up the fence - very distant and rather wild but there are flowers!

And I can't wait to be able to stand under the trees and look up like this at the blue sky.

For now I'm making do with managing to get onto my beloved swinging bench :) (sadly no flowers on it at the moment)

I had a smile - and a laugh - at the young man from the Hyundai garage who called today to see if we liked our car. He asked about my foot and then tried to move the conversation on to the car by saying "Your legs apart... oh, no I didn't mean that. (pause) Leaving your legs apart... no, that's worse...." after which I rescued him by saying "You mean, apart from my broken foot..."  I could feel him blushing down the telephone! Poor lad!

And GBBO - no excessive finger slicing or great disaster this week but bread shaped like a football predicting octopus? And a loaf of bread with tomatoes on the top as ' an inventive spectacular bread'?