You need one of these didyw. Cats hate water (unless there a full grown Tiger)
A stern look and a clap of the hands will send it packing if I catch it anywhere in the garden - but I hardly ever see it, just the evidence of my nibbled nepeta. The pigeons are also feasting in the garden. They can't get at the cabbage or kale but they are having a whale of a time eating the new shoots on the top of the prunus hedge. Hubby is all for it - he hopes they'll eat so much he won't have to cut it.
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We had to do Latin for the first three years. In the first year they also taught ancient Greek civilisation. Second year you did ancient Greek language for a year or two. Then you decide on your gcse options. You could choose to keep Latin but nobody did. However there was always about 8 kids carrying on with ancient Greek to GCSE level. That's what I did. It was an intellectual subject that definitely proved your intelligence. Harder than Latin for sure
My dad did Latin for 3 years then dropped it. My uncle was older so he had to do Latin or ancient Greek to o level in order to be allowed into university. Not even oxbridge but Southampton. They dropped the requirement when my dad was in third year so he dropped it as soon as possible.
@steveTu - my Dad had exactly the same experience, so he made sure both my brother and I could go to the grammar school. I often wonder what Dad could have become if he'd had the education he deserved. An accountant probably - he was brilliant at arithmetic. Unlike sad old me - the school wouldn't even put me in for maths GCE as they didn't want to waste the money. They were totally right. Mind you - I love a spreadsheet now and 'get' stats.
I had the same experience re maths o level @didyw (you didn’t go to the same suffolk school as me did you?). I had to do a Certificate of Arithmetic instead and fainted half way through and got concussion. Taught myself book keeping, PAYE VAT etc at a later date when I discovered that figures were all about logic rather than some sort of magic. The maths teaching at my all girls grammar school was abysmal. I learned equations from helping my kids with their homework. Suddenly it all made sense cos I wasn’t scared of being publicly humiliated any more.
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I had the same experience re maths o level @didyw (you didn’t go to the same suffolk school as me did you?). I had to do a Certificate of Arithmetic instead and fainted half way through and got concussion. Taught myself book keeping, PAYE VAT etc at a later date when I discovered that figures were all about logic rather than some sort of magic. The maths teaching at my all girls grammar school was abysmal.
I was raised in Bucks, so it was Langley Grammar I went to. Amazingly someone who has relatively recently moved to Bungay also went to Langley Grammar - a couple of years before me, so I didn't know her at school. Turns out we were both terrified of the maths teachers, and the PE teachers who were really horrific unless you were good at hockey. But we both loved the art teacher and our English teachers. She is now a professional artist and I took my degree (as a mature student) in English Literature. You are so right that it is all about logic. I went into market research and that is all about stats. I admire you for teaching yourself book keeping, PAYE and VAT!
I was OK at Maths but didn't see the point of a lot of it. algebra, sines and cosines, logarithms, differentiation - never seen one of them since. On the other hand, being able to work out areas and volumes has been ever so useful for things like making curtains, painting walls, moving furniture, buying grass seed and - perhaps most importantly - up sizing cake recipes from medium circular tins to big square ones.
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Wow I'm not the only one then as regards maths. Failed O level umpteen times, teacher made us sit 2 different exam boards, a year early, the proper time & re-sits. His method of "teaching " was to throw a book to every boy (failure to catch was instant detention) he then said do exercise 1 do all of it, what you don't do in class do at home, we will mark it tomorrow. He then walked out of the room. He did go through a selection of the questions the next day but he seemed to pull numbers from thin air, the climate of fear didn't help. The first 2 exercises were arithmetic, I got 100%. The third was algebra I got 3 out of about 40. You were then supposed to redo all the ones you got wrong and all the next exercise . After a couple of weeks of this the only way to catch up was to beg some to let you copy theirs. The examples never fitted the questions after the first 1 or 2 questions. I went on to study Biomedical science at degree level which involved quite a bit of maths and equations , but we were properly taught, and they made sense because they were relevant to what we were doing. I can relate to @Dovefromabove when she says that it's logical rather than some sort of wizardry.
We did Latin too ... two successive male latin teachers left citing 'nervous breakdowns' ... I think they found an all girls grammar and the awful Miss L**** a bit daunting.
Goodness @didyw are you near Bungay? I know it well ... I used to live just a bit south of Halesworth, often spent time in Bungay ... had friends there ... lovely place and not far from us here on the very edge of southwest Norwich near the UEA
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We had to do Latin for the first three years. In the first year they also taught ancient Greek civilisation. Second year you did ancient Greek language for a year or two. Then you decide on your gcse options. You could choose to keep Latin but nobody did. However there was always about 8 kids carrying on with ancient Greek to GCSE level. That's what I did. It was an intellectual subject that definitely proved your intelligence. Harder than Latin for sure
My dad did Latin for 3 years then dropped it. My uncle was older so he had to do Latin or ancient Greek to o level in order to be allowed into university. Not even oxbridge but Southampton. They dropped the requirement when my dad was in third year so he dropped it as soon as possible.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I went on to study Biomedical science at degree level which involved quite a bit of maths and equations , but we were properly taught, and they made sense because they were relevant to what we were doing. I can relate to @Dovefromabove when she says that it's logical rather than some sort of wizardry.
Goodness @didyw are you near Bungay? I know it well ... I used to live just a bit south of Halesworth, often spent time in Bungay ... had friends there ... lovely place and not far from us here on the very edge of southwest Norwich near the UEA
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.