Mundane News

[stephec]

Well done on your Level 3 @Katherine . Stopping the infant book club is a bad move on their part. Reading is important and if you can develop a love of reading in them then it will enhance so much of their future lives.

On another mundane note. Henry only likes to wee in his litter tray, he saves number 2s for Sashas litter tray

My boy is brave, very brave

Remember that old saying?

You don't shoot on your own doorstep.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Who needs kids when you have 2 cats

They don't understand bedtime either unless it's daylight

 

[vernon]

By by the fact that since I got the level 3 qualification, and the school eventually started paying me as a level 3, they can't afford to increase my hours of 25 hours a week. The only full-timers are in the Early Years setting. They can afford some ridiculously fancy display boards in the front entrance, a new dishwasher in the staff room, not to get the b & w printer fixed so everyone is printing everything in colour... etc. In fact they can't even pay me one extra hour so I can run the infant book club any more. Grr. See what your question has set off!!

Since employing a consultant to organise a program of redundancies at my school, the school has faced a series of appeals some of which have been upheld and some are still ongoing. The cost of the redundancies has gone up by 20% caused by incorrect redundancy payment calculations being performs and the wrong dates being used for lengths of service. The school is pleading poverty. The redundancy program is removing at one fell swoop, all science, maths and English support teaching. Despite this it is recruiting: an additional assistant deputy headteacher, promoting several staff and demoting more than a handful of support staff by increasing their hours, decreasing their responsibilities and decreasing their rate of pay. The mainstream teachers are expected to take on the increased workload of dealing with disaffected and underperforming pupils that the support staff normally take on and improve the exam performances of all of the pupils in their classes.

Meanwhile the management beatings will continue until staff morale improves.

I am so looking forward to retirement in twenty nine working days' time.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm wide awake and have been for most of the night, the first night this year I've not slept well, my Good Lady might find me asleep on the sofa later on today.

 

[potsy]

13c this morning, winter is over in mancland

 

[stephec]

13c this morning, winter is over in mancland

That must be a tropical monsoon outside my window then.

 

[Hill Wimp]

No let up on the storm here. It's been blowing a gale and pouring since yesterday evening.

 

[Lullabelle]

You suddenly took my back years ago to when we had to cater for some meetings, we would organise Barbara to cater for it... Very nice and you always hoped the visitors didn't eat it all, especially the desert she used to make with cream, biscuits and coffee and some other things.

Normally the crisps are left, I like savoury, they are back in today, bet the crisps will go today as well

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

My car passed it's MOT yesterday with no advisories.
Not bad for a 14 year old VW that tends to be used and abused (loaded with dogs, children and bikes - as well as all sorts of other stuff - and driven all over the place and only worked on when there is no other option....)

 

[stephec]

I'm going to a meeting again today, at the same place in Leicester as yesterday.

I hope we get some decent food, it was horrible yesterday and all I had to eat was crisps.

 

[lazybloke]

Phone rang. It was a recorded message saying "are unwanted nuisance calls driving you crazy?"
YES

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Phone rang. It was a recorded message saying "are unwanted nuisance calls driving you crazy?"
YES

I wonder whether it was the same cowboys who phoned my mother a while back saying they were from the TPS.

 

[Illaveago]

I found my cat hiding behind the curtain. It's my turn to hide now.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My car passed it's MOT yesterday with no advisories.
Not bad for a 14 year old VW that tends to be used and abused (loaded with dogs, children and bikes - as well as all sorts of other stuff - and driven all over the place and only worked on when there is no other option....)

My 13 year old Hyundai goes for MOT and service next month, last year was a bit of a wallet buster, it walked the MOT no problems but they found a few bits and pieces on the service. Like your VW it just gets used, I check the fluids and lights once in a while and thats it.

 

[summerdays]

13c this morning, winter is over in mancland

You know winter is going to come back tomorrow now you have said that .... and it will be all YOUR fault!!!

Yes it was warm wasn't it!