Carrie O'Hara

The pouting and ponderings of a 40 something Drama and English teacher who wants to do as well as teach…

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  • Hands up for Rose (and Giovanni)!

    I can’t dance. Not even a step. I love to move and groove at wedding parties, and in my flat but there is no rhythm or co-ordination involved- none. I’ve been an avid ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ fan since the beginning: it connects with the same part of my soul as watching musical theatre. The sparkle, […]

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    December 19, 2021
    Hearing, music, Teaching, TV, Uncategorized
  • Strike action doesn’t work

    I am teacher. I am a member of Union and I strongly believe in Workers’ Rights. But on Friday I changed unions from one that believed in strike action- although didn’t strike this time, to one that doesn’t. Strike action doesn’t work. I think the Trades Union movement is a positive one. Yet, when I […]

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    March 15, 2015
    Education, Politics, Society, Teaching, Work
  • Ray…A Chemical Romance

    Originally posted on willlunnwriter:
    Ray…A Chemical Romance The body is a temple. A sacred spiritual gift to be treated with care and respect. According to all those well meaning counsellors and self-helpers he had endured over the years….If his body was a temple it was a pretty ancient crumbling example which he was systematically vandalising…

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    March 8, 2015
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  • Books Cannot Be Killed By Fire

    Originally posted on willlunnwriter:
    The Guardian online posted a typically provocative piece this morning blaming conservatism for the rise in Islamaphobia . Even the most basic grasp of modern history and human psychology is enough to show us how the extreme rhetoric or actions from one religious or political view can radicalise those from an…

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    March 2, 2015
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  • Better half in more ways than one…

    https://willlunnwriter.wordpress.com/ Check out this blog for wit, warmth and human truth. For Script, possible treatments and a burgeoning novel. If I could actually write, I would want to write like this… Go read Xx

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    February 25, 2015
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  • Someone with something to say…

    A new blog for you all to follow: BrianWFerguson | The view from down here … – WordPress.com brianwferguson.wordpress.com/ The influence of such words may even entice me back to my own overly wordy musings: or alternatively confirm what I’ve always feared: that creatively I’m a meandering Pygmy amongst conquering giants. Xx

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    September 28, 2014
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  • Finding light in dark places/ coming back to counting blessings…

    Where did she go? That girl who signed up for and fulfilled the 365 blog? She has attempted and failed at quite a few doppelgängers since… And while we’re looking for her: where’s the girl who signed into Weight Watchers and lost many, many pounds but is failing miserably (and comfort eating in consequence) to […]

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    October 13, 2013
    Blogging, Faith, family, Love, Me, Myself, I, Teaching, Uncategorized, writing
  • Raging against apathy: a pondering ‘lecture’: from me to me.

    “In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came […]

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    July 27, 2013
    Me, Myself, I, writing
  • The summer holidays: Blessings #51-

    Dear Reader(s), This next blog has taken days to write: and will take longer to read- there is little in way of compensation for your time. A summary: I love sunshine, coffee, food, the cinema, reading, family and friends…I’m blessed X #51 That’s the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like […]

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    July 12, 2013
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  • Counting my blessings #47-50

    #47 So school ended (in it’s usual anti- climatic fashion) and for once I managed social balance (if not alcohol moderation) for the end of term ‘get together’. I’m a social discontent: pleasing too many others at the expense of my own contentment. And at the end of every school term there is a tension […]

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    July 2, 2013
    family, Food, Friendship, Me, Myself, I, the single life, Work
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