Occasionally on INSET days we are required to go off-site to another school. This can either be an exciting opportunity to meet other maths teachers, to exchange ideas and learn about new innovations in teaching. One such INSET is approaching in a month or so but unfortunately the majority of teachers in our department have the same level of motivation towards the idea as my year nines have for simplifying ratios.

Thus I was nominated to go on account of my 'being good at feeding back on things'. It's safe to say that this is the first time anyone has ever described me as having this quality and it falls in line with such compliments as: 'you're really good at washing up', 'you're good at being the designated driver' or 'you'd make a really good human sacrifice'. In short if you don't want to do something make out that the person sat next to you is really good at it and they'll get lumbered with the job.