Numbers and I don't get on. Which considering I used to do calculations for pressurised vessels is worrying. I just can't do numbers; the damn things jump around.
Yesterday the scouts were told to come up with ideas for fundraising; we have an awesome camp lined up for them but of course awesome means expensive. Unfortunately the scouts seemed feral and aside from the just go to the bank of mum and dad their ideas seemed to involve mainly inflicting main on the trouble maker of the group. Don't get me wrong I think there'd be quite the demand for throwing things at him... but I don't think it's quite in the best reflection of scouting.
I hope next week that they are calmer as I'm doing fire safety with them. I don't mind excited, hyperactive, but I will not stand for the rudeness we had last night; nor will I stand for the impromptu food fight. What a waste of biscuits.
It's all rather a shame that it is February and thus I can't just water board the lot of them lined up against a wall with the main branch on the fire engine. That might keep our trouble maker quiet for at least three minutes.
Morning all /afties Pat. Glad it's a tad cooler for you.
Even basic arithmetic is good for keeping the brain tickingover. I've always said to the girls - even if you never use any other subject you learn at school, you'll always need arithmetic!
Lovely to see you LP. How are those snowdrops?
WIll it be a big chicklet cake chicky?
Da*n - I was just needing a new kitchen and didn't know where to get one....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hello all Properly awake now Feeling ok thanks, apart from dratted cough .... I expect that'll go ... eventually ...
Clari ... Rather you than me ... While I really like children as individuals I've never been able to get on with them in groups ... even when I was a child myself ... It's not for nothing that groups of scouts etc are called 'packs'
As for figures, I used to think it was me - I just didn't get it - but having spoken over the years with people I was at school with and with mathematicians I realise just how appallingly we were taught at my all girls grammar school back in the sixties.
Since then I've gone some way to repair the situation and taught myself to keep all the accounts and do the PAYE and VAT for our family business - in the days before such things were done on computer. I've also taught myself basic algebra etc and I no longer break into a cold sweat at the thought of working with figures - in fact I quite enjoy it - it's a shame my maths teachers were all so rubbish back then.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just listening to Radio 4 talking about 'Robots with AI' .... I know it's my farming background but to me AI will always mean 'artificial insemination'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OH is coming home today He has a degree in Physics and another one in computer something. Got a scholarship to a public school. I always feel proud of him as his grandfathers were coal miners from Sheffield.
Having kept a couple of Jersey cows I always think of AI in the same way as Dove. What else can it mean?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
It is dry and mild here wit occasional sunny bits. OH has gone off to play golf leaving me holding the babies. Dogs and kittens in fine playful form.
I have had a headache for 3 days and feel as bleugh as if I were coming round from a migraine but will gird loins to get some jobs done. around the house, ready for leccy man next week. I hope all the lurgy sufferers are improving.
Need to go compost hunting tomorrow so I can start sowing seeds. Getting twitchy and broad beans and sweet peas and chilies need starting and i have some red onion sets to plant in modules. Love red onions.
I was good at maths at school but stopped at O level and have found little no use for algebra, logarithms, sinuses etc but geometry comes in handy for scaling cake recipes up and down for different tins and working out how much paint I may need............ but at the mo that last is a whole other headache pondering colour schemes.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
When No1 daughter was born , we were expecting a boy, so she didn't have a name. Her little wrist tag had FI and her surname on it. I pondered for a couple of day and asked what it meant . I was told " female infant" . There was me thinking F1 hybrid.
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Numbers and I don't get on. Which considering I used to do calculations for pressurised vessels is worrying. I just can't do numbers; the damn things jump around.
Yesterday the scouts were told to come up with ideas for fundraising; we have an awesome camp lined up for them but of course awesome means expensive. Unfortunately the scouts seemed feral and aside from the just go to the bank of mum and dad their ideas seemed to involve mainly inflicting main on the trouble maker of the group. Don't get me wrong I think there'd be quite the demand for throwing things at him... but I don't think it's quite in the best reflection of scouting.
I hope next week that they are calmer as I'm doing fire safety with them. I don't mind excited, hyperactive, but I will not stand for the rudeness we had last night; nor will I stand for the impromptu food fight. What a waste of biscuits.
It's all rather a shame that it is February and thus I can't just water board the lot of them lined up against a wall with the main branch on the fire engine. That might keep our trouble maker quiet for at least three minutes.
Just showing off now.....
I like a bit of sums ......
Morning all /afties Pat. Glad it's a tad cooler for you.
Even basic arithmetic is good for keeping the brain tickingover. I've always said to the girls - even if you never use any other subject you learn at school, you'll always need arithmetic!
Lovely to see you LP. How are those snowdrops?
WIll it be a big chicklet cake chicky?
Da*n - I was just needing a new kitchen and didn't know where to get one....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Good morning, I took this on the weekend Fairy
happy birthday chicklet bet it's a super cake
Dove hope you feeling much better today
Hosta hope the weather holds
Clari good luck is all I can say!
we have quite bad fog today
A A Milne
Hello all
Properly awake now 
Feeling ok thanks, apart from dratted cough .... I expect that'll go ... eventually ...
Clari ... Rather you than me ... While I really like children as individuals I've never been able to get on with them in groups ... even when I was a child myself ... It's not for nothing that groups of scouts etc are called 'packs'
As for figures, I used to think it was me - I just didn't get it - but having spoken over the years with people I was at school with and with mathematicians I realise just how appallingly we were taught at my all girls grammar school back in the sixties.
Since then I've gone some way to repair the situation and taught myself to keep all the accounts and do the PAYE and VAT for our family business - in the days before such things were done on computer. I've also taught myself basic algebra etc and I no longer break into a cold sweat at the thought of working with figures - in fact I quite enjoy it - it's a shame my maths teachers were all so rubbish back then.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just listening to Radio 4 talking about 'Robots with AI' .... I know it's my farming background but to me AI will always mean 'artificial insemination'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi all.
Still feeling very lurgified [ is that a word? ] so morning on the sofa.
Happy Birthday Chicklet, oh to be 18 again, in my case hormones and spots.
Lovely to hear about slightly "older" people studying, my mum did an OU degree in her 70's.
I think water boarding should be legal for unruly children and also for adults who think that it is a legitimate means of interrogation for others.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Morning all.
OH is coming home today
He has a degree in Physics and another one in computer something. Got a scholarship to a public school. I always feel proud of him as his grandfathers were coal miners from Sheffield.
Having kept a couple of Jersey cows I always think of AI in the same way as Dove. What else can it mean?
Good morning all , a busy day , o/h got 9 people coming for lunch tomorrow , so lots of jobs around house today
If lucky might get in garden this afternoon
One of my 2 favourite nieces has a Maths degree and got a job with an Internatimbal firm of Accountants an
It is dry and mild here wit occasional sunny bits. OH has gone off to play golf leaving me holding the babies. Dogs and kittens in fine playful form.
I have had a headache for 3 days and feel as bleugh as if I were coming round from a migraine but will gird loins to get some jobs done. around the house, ready for leccy man next week. I hope all the lurgy sufferers are improving.
Need to go compost hunting tomorrow so I can start sowing seeds. Getting twitchy and broad beans and sweet peas and chilies need starting and i have some red onion sets to plant in modules. Love red onions.
I was good at maths at school but stopped at O level and have found little no use for algebra, logarithms, sinuses etc but geometry comes in handy for scaling cake recipes up and down for different tins and working out how much paint I may need............ but at the mo that last is a whole other headache pondering colour schemes.
When No1 daughter was born , we were expecting a boy, so she didn't have a name. Her little wrist tag had FI and her surname on it. I pondered for a couple of day and asked what it meant . I was told " female infant" . There was me thinking F1 hybrid.