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Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
[QUOTE 5299154, member: 10119"]Mind, the SmallestCub's new-in-September school has a new uniform from September, which involves shirts and ties instead of their current polos. That could test even my powers of hanging-up-properly-combined-with-not-really-caring-much.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a step backwards on the Uniform front. one of the advantages of German schools is that there's no uniform requirement.
Sounds like a step backwards on the Uniform front. one of the advantages of German schools is that there's no uniform requirement.
I think so too. But am counting my relative blessings - the school originally tried to go for shirt, tie and blazer a few years back but that was hugely unpopular in the student and parent consultations so they didn't change it, had a rethink, and came up with this instead which they found easier to get accepted by enough families to implement.
raleighnut
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[QUOTE 5299239, member: 10119"]I think so too. But am counting my relative blessings - the school originally tried to go for shirt, tie and blazer a few years back but that was hugely unpopular in the student and parent consultations so they didn't change it, had a rethink, and came up with this instead which they found easier to get accepted by enough families to implement.[/QUOTE]
Nothing worse than those 'Donkey Jacket' Blazers that everyone wore back in the 70s, I refused to wear one and made my parents fork out for a 'Barathea' one instead (as worn by the 'cool kids')
Nothing worse than those 'Donkey Jacket' Blazers that everyone wore back in the 70s, I refused to wear one and made my parents fork out for a 'Barathea' one instead (as worn by the 'cool kids')
raleighnut
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No shorts for me in the 70s (60s yeah) mind you we all looked like this,You'd be having a few fights at my school if you wore a blazer and shorts
You have a milk crate with room for 6 bottles arranged in two threes, side by side and parallel to the handle. You have 5 empty bottles for the milkman to collect. Do you A/ leave an empty space in the middle or B/ only put out 4 bottles so as to maintain symmetry in the crate?
I've been there with my own dad. If you need to talk xxx
That's very kind of you Reynard.
I've had a difficult relationship with him for many years, culminating in having to intervene when he attacked our daughter one afternoon 5 or 6 years ago (mainly verbally but some physical too). He had paranoid personality disorder which meant that almost anything anyone said or did had the chance of being misconstrued as a personal attack. He rang me up when our youngest got her first boyfriend (at 17 for goodness sake) and told me that she needed a boyfriend because she wasn't loved at home.
A stroke 4 years ago seemed to take all the malice out of him for a few years, but it's been sneaking back. Add to that an obsession with the medical profession trying (and eventually succeeding) in poisoning him and you can perhaps start to see why I don't give two hoots about his problems, other than for the damage it is doing to the people around him, his wife in particular. My wife has long seen him for what he is, and has helped her mum come to terms with all this. It was at her instigation that the Memory Clinic appointments led to this diagnosis. The net effect is that he can no longer drive, and all the official complaints he has lodged against various members of the medical profession can now be discarded. Other than that, everything just carries on as before, and all who have to come into contact with him carry on with their various coping strategies.
OP
OP
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- Manchester
I could lose sleep thinking about the answer!
You have a milk crate with room for 6 bottles arranged in two threes, side by side and parallel to the handle. You have 5 empty bottles for the milkman to collect. Do you A/ leave an empty space in the middle or B/ only put out 4 bottles so as to maintain symmetry in the crate?
OP
OP
- Location
- Manchester
Sounds like another one of my relatives. Well done though, it must still be hard work .
OP
OP
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- Manchester
[QUOTE 5299154, member: 10119"]Ironing, like running, is something that happens to Other People. I last ironed an item of clothing (as opposed to stuff like hama beads/fabric paint etc which is arty-farting about and doesn't count) for my friend's daughter's christening. A purple flowery top for me to wear, it was.
Said child was a school year below my child, which means they'll be sitting their GCSEs next summer
Mind, the SmallestCub's new-in-September school has a new uniform from September, which involves shirts and ties instead of their current polos. That could test even my powers of hanging-up-properly-combined-with-not-really-caring-much.[/QUOTE]
Look out for the Teflon non-iron shirts and trousers.
Said child was a school year below my child, which means they'll be sitting their GCSEs next summer
Mind, the SmallestCub's new-in-September school has a new uniform from September, which involves shirts and ties instead of their current polos. That could test even my powers of hanging-up-properly-combined-with-not-really-caring-much.[/QUOTE]
Look out for the Teflon non-iron shirts and trousers.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
The Beeb said that the government will be holding a crunch meeting . Will that include crisps, crackers and nuts ? 
Illaveago
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- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
[QUOTE 5298587, member: 10119"]We had a simply _joyous_ NorthernRail experience at the weekend - between cancellations, late-running, missed connections, trains over-full of tired sandy west yorkshire folk who had been to the seaside and the very shouty drunk woman who we all endured together from Preston to Accrington it was an utter delight, I tell you. And meant that my children got to experience the joys of an after-midnight payday-weekend taxi rank. As we arrived the SmallestCub said 'I hope the same thing doesn't happen as last time we got a train back late and a taxi' - which befuddled me until he reminded me about a journey home from the 2017 Hydrogen Hack that has us waiting at the rank with the party drunks and included fisticuffs about four people ahead of us in the queueueue. Fortunately it didn't; we were still a good four metres back from the start of the queueue when it kicked off, with much Loud Swearing. And fisticuffs.
"I think they've drunk too much beer, mum."
"I think you're probably right."
"I don't think he should have queue jumped because it isn't fair..."
"Well, quite. It's not Terribly British, either!"
"...but I don't think she should have grabbed his arm, or that either of them should have shoved and sworn like that."
"Nope, me neither."
"Mum, I don't think I'm going to drink beer."
"Well, I hope you won't for a good long while, but I suspect you might change your mind and want to try it in a few years time..."
(most doubtfully) "Hmmmm."
"...and the chances are that at least once you will drink too much of it, and then the next day you will swear the you're never ever EVER going to do that again."
"Hmm... maybe. I don't think so though."
*lady behind us in queueueue nearly wets herself laughing*
*chap behind us in queueueueue is confused*
*lady behind us in queueueueueueue explains in whispers and the giggling spreads a bit further back along the queueueueueueueueueue.*[/QUOTE]
I read that as" Neanderthal Rail " .
"I think they've drunk too much beer, mum."
"I think you're probably right."
"I don't think he should have queue jumped because it isn't fair..."
"Well, quite. It's not Terribly British, either!"
"...but I don't think she should have grabbed his arm, or that either of them should have shoved and sworn like that."
"Nope, me neither."
"Mum, I don't think I'm going to drink beer."
"Well, I hope you won't for a good long while, but I suspect you might change your mind and want to try it in a few years time..."
(most doubtfully) "Hmmmm."
"...and the chances are that at least once you will drink too much of it, and then the next day you will swear the you're never ever EVER going to do that again."
"Hmm... maybe. I don't think so though."
*lady behind us in queueueue nearly wets herself laughing*
*chap behind us in queueueueue is confused*
*lady behind us in queueueueueueue explains in whispers and the giggling spreads a bit further back along the queueueueueueueueueue.*[/QUOTE]
I read that as" Neanderthal Rail " .
