The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Been out in my back garden with a paintbrush taped to the end of a very long stick, marking branches with red paint, in order to aid the tree cutter tomorrow.
My neck hurts now!

 

[numbnuts]

We all got a candle at church this morning as it's Candlemass Day 🕯️
either that or they can see a power cut coming shortly

 

[BoldonLad]

I have a load of washing in the machine so of course the sun has disappeared.

So… it’s your fault that it has clouded over? 😊

 

[SpokeyDokey]

so what happened with it ? how did they treat it ?

I have one on my nose Have been using Chemo cream, its burnt all the skin off, apparently its supposed to !
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it fair smarts, nice when I get going on the bike and the cold air takes the heat out of it

A friend has just had four small areas of his face treated similarly. Including one patch in the corner of an eye. Looked yukky!

All seems to have worked and the Consultant is happy.

Best wishes re your treatment.

 

[gavroche]

I have a load of washing in the machine so of course the sun has disappeared.

Well, it was raining a bit earlier and I am pleased to tell you that the sun has come over to us now.

 

[PaulSB]

"Do you really need all that carp?"

Possibly. He drove a Morris Traveller and would probably ask the same about a modern car.

Out of that list the only essential things are lights. The rest someone has dreamt up and decided we need them.

 

[welsh dragon]

Well, it was raining a bit earlier and I am pleased to tell you that the sun has come over to us now.

Maybe it will move down to us.

 

[PaulSB]

Hmmmmm.....someone who lives in this house has purchased a bottle of L'Oréal Men Expert Hydra Energetic sport shower gel. It may have been me. I don't know, it seems out of character.

This stuff should come with a hazard warning ⚠️ I can only compare it with the terrifying experience of applying Deep Heat to one's back and later having a shower You'll only ever make that mistake once!!!! 🤣

 

[Marchrider]

He tried cream first but it did not work.
The bits were cut out of my shin and a skin graft taken from the ,back of my calf was applied.
Now twelve months later all is well.

may be I will get a whole new nose grafted on, wonder if I get a choice, one of those French/Roman aquiline ones would be good - LOL

did anyone see Wolf Hall, the French Executioner (ann boleyn) I would have one like that, could have his job too, lopping royal heads, that woud be right up my street

 

[numbnuts]

I got the wrong meal out of the freezer it should have been home made brazed steak
but I took out chilli, I had all ready put on the potatoes to cook so it's chilli and mashed spuds

 

[welsh dragon]

We had burgers today

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Good morning. A beautiful day in Lancashire. I've been awake for hours, this is not good but I have dealt with a lot of stuff that needed doing.

Next on the agenda is my exercise routine, a visit to #2 son who has IT problems and then I need to pick up shelving for my new storage facility. We had friends round for the inauguration of our summer house last night. This meant sitting in there for an hour or so, wrapped up against the cold, sipping Prosecco under star light......well all right a couple of phones! I need to get some lighting.

After some discussion we've decided instead of a summer house and shed we have "The Pavilion" with an adjacent storage facility.

So - a posh shed and attached shed??

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I'm annoyed

As I can;t drive at the moment the plan was for SWMBO's son to bring the grandkids down here
then take the girl climbing so she could practice what she has learned in her lessons over the last 2 weeks

and we would look after the 2 boys

Anyway - no messages this morning so about 12 I send him a message asking what the timings were

apparently it has all been cancelled (without telling us) as the boys are tired and not behaving

seems like they stayed with "the other gran" (and her husband who doesn;t seem to take much part!) on Friday night

and they were up at 4 in the morning and she couldn;t get them back to bed for ages
HUH!!
how long does "BED NOW" take!!!
(they do tend to behave for us - tired or not- because of "consequences" - most of which we have not defined and hope we never have to work out!)

Anyway - no climbing apparently
There is a view that he could have bothered to mention it earlier!!!

 

[Drago]

Many many years ago I somehow got roped into babysitting for a friend of Mrs D mk1.

Two young kids, a boy and a girl, running round and causing mayhem. I decided that I'd had enough.

I called them over and said...

"You know why I had to take this job as a babysitter?"

It seemed they did not.

"Well, I used to be a headmaster when one day a naughty boy, about your age, was brought to me in my study. He'd been very naughty indeed so I gave him a damn good thrashing with the cane, but I accidentally overdid it and he died. As a result I got sacked and now can't get a proper job. Now, be a good boy and girl, run along and get to bed now."

They positively sprinted upstairs to bed and I never heard another peep from them.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Many many years ago I somehow got roped into babysitting for a friend of Mrs D mk1.

Two young kids, a boy and a girl, running round and causing mayhem. I decided that I'd had enough.

I called them over and said...

"You know why I had to take this job as a babysitter?"

It seemed they did not.

"Well, I used to be a headmaster when one day a naughty boy, about your age, was brought to me in my study. He'd been very naughty indeed so I gave him a damn good thrashing with the cane, but I accidentally overdid it and he died. As a result I got sacked and now can't get a proper job. Now, be a good boy and girl, run along and get to bed now."

They positively sprinted upstairs to bed and I never heard another peep from them.

I'm pretty certain that that is counted as "not allowed" - but in reality it was just imparting information that you thought they might find interesting.

When I was a doing my teacher training course (I did more than one!) one of my mentors was taking a "difficult" class - aged about 12/13 and they were trying to cause trouble - I was there ot hlep out and observe

It was clear that one kid was the centre of the whole trouble
SO the teacher told me to look after the rest of the class and took the kid outside into the corridor "accidentally" leaving the door wide open

He had a chair with him and made the kid stand on the chair

He had positioned it directly under a beam across the ceiling and - for some reason - some red stains on the floor that had been there for ages and the cleaners couldn't shift

He explained - ina very loud explaining voice - to the kid that the last kid who had caused him this much trouble he had ended up hanging from the beam by his neck and the marks on the floor were cause by the blood from the hanging
apparently the Science department deposed of the body for him


The kid was positively shaking when they came back into the room



and the class worked well with no problems for the rest of the lesson and for every lesson for the next month - when they changed teachers as usual


I was not totally sure that this example was one that was supposed to be used with trainee teacher as an informative technique for application later on in our career
but I did have to be excused and go into the technicians' room for a few minutes to stop laughing


I should mention that I never threatened to harm any pupil in any way whatsoever when I was a teacher - and "what happens in the staff room stays in the staff room"!!

still - some kids etc etc