Clari - you're right - BSL will be a very useful string to your bow, particularly working as you do alongside Education.
As part of my work (before I retired) I learned Signalong - a sort of simplified version of BSL, used by people with learning difficulties who also have communication problems. Great fun, and incredibly useful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Clari Good luck with the sign language. I'm sure you'll tackle that with the same energy you do with everything else x
PottiePam - was your brother at Lochnagar? That is one of the most beautiful areas for Munros. We've had a lot of late snow on the mountains this year - even the most southern ones- which will still be there for a good while yet. Hope he's having a great time
My tv is now sporting a black screen so had to borrow daughter's ickle one to catch up a bit with Chelsea - have to get a new one now. Never rains eh? Oh...well...it's doing that too and I think I may need a raft soon
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm going to be contacting a few places tomorrow (when work restarts) to discuss basic sign language courses that we can run to get all volunteers trained up so that they can at least welcome people and point them in the right direction of the toilets. Hopefully once I have prices I can start looking for funding. Its not looking cheap unfortunately: bit daft when learning it will open up a whole new world and avoid (for me at least) social isolation.
Like my to do list wasn't big enough as it was! Oh well. I think the personal life doesn't really need sleep.
Mrs. G you're going to have to type louder!!
His Lordship is inviting his family over for the bank holiday (and my 30th birthday weekend). Guess there goes the idea of spending the weekend in my pants in an inflatable paddling pool drinking cider!
I hope it isn't snowing in Saxmundham when we are in Suffolk in July. Once here in Dordogne I was hosting a charity Strawberry tea the end of May and it snowed, 2°.
My daughter wears a hearing aid, the GP kept saying she hadn't got ear infections when she had, as she had a slightly distorted tube.
Taking Matty to the airport tomorrow.
Did anyone watch Chelsea? Shall go and see if there is a Chelsea thread.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Lizzie, gotta say again how in awe I am of you and your garden as well as your ( not needed) bravery to let the masses in!
Loving every bit of Chelsea and now GW from Friday. Monty making me feel bad as I recklessly threw out a germ rivalle yesterday ( no room and didn't do the business for me). His tulip and wallflower path was fab though and really enjoyed the lady looking at Bethlem garden not sure about joes hanging basket though
When my children were little I worked as a school "nanny" (lunchtime supervisor), with an older lady whom I imagined had very sharp hearing - she could tell what children the other side of the playground were saying. It turned out she was severely deaf, but had very good eyesight & could lip-read. Nobody knew for years.
Tomorrow's forecast is wall-to-wall rain, max temp 9C. Might have to do some spring cleaning...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Clari - you're right - BSL will be a very useful string to your bow, particularly working as you do alongside Education.
As part of my work (before I retired) I learned Signalong - a sort of simplified version of BSL, used by people with learning difficulties who also have communication problems. Great fun, and incredibly useful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I ain't been near Verd's nose - honest guv.
Clari
Good luck with the sign language. I'm sure you'll tackle that with the same energy you do with everything else x
PottiePam - was your brother at Lochnagar? That is one of the most beautiful areas for Munros. We've had a lot of late snow on the mountains this year - even the most southern ones- which will still be there for a good while yet. Hope he's having a great time
My tv is now sporting a black screen so had to borrow daughter's ickle one to catch up a bit with Chelsea - have to get a new one now. Never rains eh? Oh...well...it's doing that too and I think I may need a raft soon
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm going to be contacting a few places tomorrow (when work restarts) to discuss basic sign language courses that we can run to get all volunteers trained up so that they can at least welcome people and point them in the right direction of the toilets. Hopefully once I have prices I can start looking for funding. Its not looking cheap unfortunately: bit daft when learning it will open up a whole new world and avoid (for me at least) social isolation.
Like my to do list wasn't big enough as it was! Oh well. I think the personal life doesn't really need sleep.
Mrs. G you're going to have to type louder!!
His Lordship is inviting his family over for the bank holiday (and my 30th birthday weekend). Guess there goes the idea of spending the weekend in my pants in an inflatable paddling pool drinking cider!
I don't see why
Isn't that how most people spend their weekends? 
It's certainly what we do when Wonky comes to visit 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
CLARI you have a PM
I hope it isn't snowing in Saxmundham when we are in Suffolk in July. Once here in Dordogne I was hosting a charity Strawberry tea the end of May and it snowed, 2°.
My daughter wears a hearing aid, the GP kept saying she hadn't got ear infections when she had, as she had a slightly distorted tube.
Taking Matty to the airport tomorrow.
Did anyone watch Chelsea? Shall go and see if there is a Chelsea thread.
Lizzie, gotta say again how in awe I am of you and your garden as well as your ( not needed) bravery to let the masses in!
Loving every bit of Chelsea and now GW from Friday. Monty making me feel bad as I recklessly threw out a germ rivalle yesterday ( no room and didn't do the business for me). His tulip and wallflower path was fab though and really enjoyed the lady looking at Bethlem garden
not sure about joes hanging basket though 
Thank you Mrs. Garden. The masses were actually rather nice people, they liked gardens!
Clari
When my children were little I worked as a school "nanny" (lunchtime supervisor), with an older lady whom I imagined had very sharp hearing - she could tell what children the other side of the playground were saying. It turned out she was severely deaf, but had very good eyesight & could lip-read. Nobody knew for years.
Tomorrow's forecast is wall-to-wall rain, max temp 9C.
Might have to do some spring cleaning... 