Mundane News

[raleighnut]

Meet Kyoto

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[fossyant]

Slight size difference. All 3 ragdolls in this shot, and Leo's back on the other side of the door.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Errrrrr,


View: https://youtu.be/iplpKwxFH2I

Ah, not the one I was thinking of

 

[PeteXXX]

Why oh why oh why do I get stuck behind the person in the queue at the local shop who is buying those bluddy scratch cards!
Can I get a number 8 and a two number 3's and a number 6... No, err dither dither, make that two number 8's, one number 3 and a number 6 and can I pay for some of it with the £3 win from this number 7 I bought yesterday and pay for the rest in cash...

Grrrrrr....

 

[Gravity Aided]

Ah, not the one I was thinking of

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Nah, that's the same one. He also sang in Camelot, a film adaptation of the musical.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Richard Harris also played rugby well.
Big supporter of Munster.

 

[Ripple]

Finally got flu jab and headache as an unwanted bonus.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Why oh why oh why do I get stuck behind the person in the queue at the local shop who is buying those bluddy scratch cards!
Can I get a number 8 and a two number 3's and a number 6... No, err dither dither, make that two number 8's, one number 3 and a number 6 and can I pay for some of it with the £3 win from this number 7 I bought yesterday and pay for the rest in cash...

Grrrrrr....

Look at it this way: whatever happens you leave the shop better off than they do.

 

[PeteXXX]

Look at it this way: whatever happens you leave the shop better off than they do.

True!

 

[PeteXXX]

I got a sesame seed stuck in my mouse..

 

[roadrash]

surely your mouse will pass it naturaly

 

[mybike]

At last it's stopped raining. Neighbour's garden is under water almost to the house, mine about 1/3 up the garden. Trouble is, the garage has an inch or two as well, and we still have cardboard boxes in there from the move(s)! I watched the cat from over the back trying to work out how to get to the back fence, quite amusing. Picture was taken a while before high tide.

 

[Andy in Germany]

There is talk of a trip to Aldi and the local version of Boots. The bakfiets has been mentioned in this context.

On the plus side, I can get the ingredients for flapjack.

 

[PeteXXX]

surely your mouse will pass it naturaly

I held the mouse upside down and tapped it out..
No meeces were harmed during this action.

 

[mybike]

Morning. I just called the organisation and said I'd be happy to work in the projects where I was for my interview, and I'd happily work on the school project if I was in a team, but I felt it was unsafe if I was on my own in the school project, so they've withdrawn my application.



The teens are from normal schools although typically from 'Werkrealschule' which is the lower tier of the Baden-Württemberg school education system. Unfortunately this can often mean 'dustbin', as is the way of such things.



I am theoretically trained for classrooms, but not this age group. That said there is a lot of confusion about what an Arbeitserzier is qualified to do: I get 'recommendations' from the employment agency for anything from a kindergarten teacher (In German that's an "Erzieher") to an Ergo therapist. I was surprised that they thought I should work alone with a school group though. The thought of what damage kids could do with sharp objects if two start an argument when I'm concentrating on another child don't bear thinking about, and it would be my responsibility.

I made it clear that I was very happy to work in the projects where I did my interview and willing to work with the school children if I wasn't alone.

I also communicated with my caseworker who agreed with me that this isn't in my remit and supported my decision, which was something of a relief. (He was quite scathing of the organisation, in fact, pointing out that they are desperate for someone to fill the 75% position, and with a bit of flex and common sense they could have had 75% covered in Novermber, and at worse someone covering the more important 65%, but now they have exactly 0%. Chapeau.)

Ho hum, back to the drawing board. It's frustrating because they were offering a fairly generous payment of several hundred Euro more than I was hoping for. I'll have to raise my expectations...

Would have said that, as you describe it, it was a definite H&S nonono. Far to easy for something to go seriously wrong.