My post boxes have gone a bit funny and I can’t edit the previous post. I love Dunelm T’bird, so many beautiful things for the home happy shopping tomorrow.
Chive, I was busy, busy this morning playing with the last of my decorations. Think I'm done now. I still have to stick up today's cards. Looking forward to Waterhole on TV tonight. Love watching all the wildlife.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Sounds very productive LB, I still haven’t tried my ‘no mark’ stick up hooks for hanging the card holders need to summon up some courage to do that! enjoy the waterhole.
Oh goodness - biscuits with orange jam sound so good. I love anything citrusy...
... especially in a G&T😁
10km is a fair old walk Ante. Afraid I am not a walker at all - get bored after about a mile.
Chive - you weren't there earlier. Are you all done now at school? You've probably already said but I only did a quick skim read back yesterday.
Our local headmasters are up in arms about the plans for Covid testing in schools. I think teachers are being asked to administer / oversee the tests. So many already do so much outside the traditional remit of teachers (overseeing the welfare and feeding of under priviledged children for starters) - but to ask them to carry out medical tasks seems a step way too far.
LB - your comment about decorations reminds me I'm missing having a wreath on the front door. Couldn't quite bring myself to bang a nail into a door that's been in place for less than 2 months😁 Will have to look at alternative means of attaching one for next year. Have a half-hatched cunning plan working it's way through the old grey matter at the moment - might experiment next week.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
T'Bird, I have never had a wreath on my door before as I did not want to bang nails in. I have some clear plastic wreath holders and I've never tried using them before as I didn't think I'd be able to close the door but when I bit the bullet and tried today it all worked well. The hanger looks like an elongated letter 'S'. Think I got them (I've a couple) from that shop where everything is 100 pennies.
Ante, I can well believe that you need your break, as does Chive. Working in schools is very demanding in every sense.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Evening folks, @Topbird and @Ladybird4 your are right about teaching at the moment I left Secondborn close to tears this evening. Following the governments announcement she will now have no Christmas holiday as she is having to organise testing for students and staff at her secondary school. She will be spending a lot of the time trying to find volunteers and working out how and where she can carry out the testing. She also has to contact all parents and to ask if they give permission for the testing and collate all the responses. She has to work out all the timetables to allow all staff to be tested twice a week. This is all on top of the normal holiday school work she has to do. I really don't know how the girls and Firstborn's Hubby are going to cope.
Evening T’bird yes thank you all done at school, last day yesterday. I hadn’t heard that teachers are being asked to oversee or administer tests, that’s most unfair, Ante that seems awfully late in the month to finish, the end is nearing for you, I hope the Christmas wheat grows well. Orange jam yum 😋 Yvie Your Secondborn has my sympathy what a terrible responsibility to put upon her, it’s far too much to ask of teaching staff. Going to say goodnight everyone.
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I love Dunelm T’bird, so many beautiful things for the home happy shopping tomorrow.
... especially in a G&T😁
10km is a fair old walk Ante. Afraid I am not a walker at all - get bored after about a mile.
Chive - you weren't there earlier. Are you all done now at school? You've probably already said but I only did a quick skim read back yesterday.
Our local headmasters are up in arms about the plans for Covid testing in schools. I think teachers are being asked to administer / oversee the tests. So many already do so much outside the traditional remit of teachers (overseeing the welfare and feeding of under priviledged children for starters) - but to ask them to carry out medical tasks seems a step way too far.
LB - your comment about decorations reminds me I'm missing having a wreath on the front door. Couldn't quite bring myself to bang a nail into a door that's been in place for less than 2 months😁 Will have to look at alternative means of attaching one for next year. Have a half-hatched cunning plan working it's way through the old grey matter at the moment - might experiment next week.
Ante that seems awfully late in the month to finish, the end is nearing for you, I hope the Christmas wheat grows well. Orange jam yum 😋
Yvie Your Secondborn has my sympathy what a terrible responsibility to put upon her, it’s far too much to ask of teaching staff.
Going to say goodnight everyone.