Well, thats it another academic year over, however now the fun begins, MARKING, I can guarantee that half of my students should fail due to lack of work and not meeting deadlines, but I am not allowed to fail anyone, why, because of the statistics, we need good results, so we have been told to make sure that the students are brought in this week to finish work if they haven't yet? The deadline was last Friday, yesterday and already today I have half of the students now in working and panicking that they will not get the work finished.

The college blame us for their failure, but we have tried so hard to get them through there is nothing else we could have done, for example 50% have very poor attendance, we phoned parents and pestered them on their mobiles to come in, but most just never bothered until now, out of the 50 or so student we have worked with only 65% will get a pass or better, however the remaining 35% will be blamed on us, which is totally unfair and unjustified, you can lead a horse to water etc.

The other thing is the college has had a poor reputation,  because it will accept everyone the other reject, so we are known as the reject college, the CMT however fail to see that their is a reason they were rejected, it's because they will not get through the courses, but we are expected to get them through.  I also found out last week that after the awarding bodies have been in to check a sample of our marking that we are told to get all the other work and remark it to a higher level so our pass rate is falsified, as are the levels of the passes, I know of student who have barley scrapped through on a pass leave here with a high Merit, WTF, this has led to this failing college becoming the counties highest achieving colleges, IT'S A FUCKING LIE, its fraud, it's immoral and damn right illegal.  So I will not make any changes to my marks if I say they fail, they fail, at least my students know that they are achievers or Numpties, either way my conscience is clear.

The college has also appointed a new principle without advertising it externally, again, illegal, we were in the shit before and we are just digging a bigger hole to climb into, the new guy has already wasted nearly £40,000 on a failed event, he has also moved funds I believe illegally, and just has no idea what the fucks going on, this guy will screw us and we will end up being investigated by the government as a failing college and possibly even the police for fraud.

Anyway I have five weeks holiday saved up that I need to take before August, so, I will live in my workshop for those weeks hopefully creating beautiful guitars.

​Off now to get coffee number 7, and I need and deserve it.

Well, what a fuck up that was for the Conservatives last week, although TM got the most votes and seats it was just not enough for the majority she needed, and you can blame the 18 - 25 year old students for that.
I know for a fact that a lot of teachers/lecturers/instructors from colleges and universities almost press ganged this age group to vote for Labour, the reason was obvious, no uni fees, the more students attending educational institutions the safer bad educators feel, it means that they wont be made redundant because of low numbers, its a self preservation thing.  What they were not told about was that if Labour had got in TAXES would have risen in every area, also Labours speciality the stealth tax.

Anyway, once all the shouting has died down I think TM may actually be able to pull off a good deal for us in the BREXIT deal, as much as she is un-liked and not trusted at the moment I think if she gets to 5 years as leader she will have a really good chance of getting the Tories in with a large majority next time.

So what else has been happening in this grumpy old bastards life, well, it's been quiet for me at the moment, the kids are completing assignments and handing in work for their final projects. I will be marking a lot of papers and watching their films over the next 4 weeks, which means me in front of a computer for 12-16 hours a day until the marking is over.

Had an interesting meeting with my son/business partner about a new venture he wants to undertake, the principle is sound as is the business plan, so I may well be backing him financially and physically buy doing some of the work. I do love a property business, you will always make money and its a great time to invest in bricks and mortar.

I have finished the work on the workshop and it is now up and running looking good. I have started my first project, however, due to my physical problems I have manages to remove a finger tip, cut my hands several times and bury a splinter about half an inch into my flesh, my hands look as if I have been attacked by ruts biting and scratching me, but, I will continue until I loose something like a finger, hand or whatever.

At the end of this month I am off for an operation on my right hand, should be interesting, the surgeon has guaranteed me a fix, he it's not successful I will fuck him up, somehow, because I said that I thought that it would be a waste of time and money trying to fix something that I think is fucked beyond repair.

Enough.

So, once again half term is here and nearly over, I spend most of my time marking during this week, but my mind has been somewhere else this week, my new workshop, my new tools and my new drone, yes, a really cool HD camera drone, why a drone you may ask, why not I reply, I have a thing about flying remote control objects, I have build and flown Planes, Helicopter and small quadcopter's but never a fully functioning drone, it can fly up to 350 meters away from me so more than enough distance and to a height of 1000 feet, can't wait to try it at the weekend, all i need to do now is find a way to make some money from this thing, I know my first job is to inspect my roof, I suspect I may have a tile loose, I hate ladders.

​I have been talking today to a workmate, yes I see him as a friend, about being grumpy, he is very much like me in his grumpiness, we like a good moan from time to time, we have been called the Waldorf & Statler of the college, when we are alone together we plot how to wind the rest of the staff up, we chose subjects that we know will make people rise up in arms against us, as an example, we were discussing the changing sexualities today, in our day MrG as I will call my friend is 62, there were Lesbians and Homosexuals, that was it , but today we have Pansexuals, Omnisexuals, Polysexuals, Asexuals, Demisexuals, Intersexuals, Agender, Genderfluid, Bigender, Non-binaries, Androsexuals, Gynesexuals, Skoliosexuals and me a confirmed and hardened Hetrosexual, WTF is going on, the list I have just stated is just the tip of the iceberg, there are several other weird sexual types, so, MrG and I were discussing afore mentioned sexuality of the students as most are now easily offended if you say the wrong thing, I am often called a misogynist pig by a couple of the female staff her, to which I reply 'bend over the table and I will show you misogyny', at which point they fuck off somewhere to lick their wounds.  They have more chance of seeing a Gender-Fluid Badger than us changing the way we are.
So, are we grumpy? Yeah, we are but it's normally done in good humour, but they don't see it that way, but who gives a fuck because I don't.

I will leave you with this thought, am I a lesbian because I am sexually attracted to women?

Nuff said.