louby loo Posted July 2, 2021 Posted July 2, 2021 On 02/07/2021 at 17:34, Panders said: , but I'm not a big fan of roses😱 Expand I've come late to roses, they really are quite beautiful. I bought this one when my parents died, I think its called 'remember me' or something like that. Rescued these two blooms that were too heavy to survive the rain. 2 Quote
Panders Posted July 2, 2021 Posted July 2, 2021 Very lovely Louby - in fact I have a similar one, and now you give the name, it may very well be - it was given to me, as most of mine are by a parent or member of staff, very velvety petals. Quote
finleysmaid Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 Busy week here.....lots of transition stuff, a safeguarding concern (may be a ploy to get on the housing list!!!😱} Reports are going slowly!!! have had to cancel end of term party ....so some unhappy clients. Plus trustees meetings and a lovely phone call from a local childminder😊 more ups than downs....so that's good. Children are very unsettled though...needing lots of hugs and policing! 1 Quote
Mouseketeer Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 On 03/07/2021 at 10:01, finleysmaid said: Busy week here.....lots of transition stuff, a safeguarding concern (may be a ploy to get on the housing list!!!😱} Reports are going slowly!!! have had to cancel end of term party ....so some unhappy clients. Plus trustees meetings and a lovely phone call from a local childminder😊 more ups than downs....so that's good. Children are very unsettled though...needing lots of hugs and policing! Expand It just feels like fire fighting in my place at the moment and not just the children, stuck between a rock and hard place and lots of soul searching this week 😔 2 1 Quote
finleysmaid Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 On 03/07/2021 at 11:51, Mouseketeer said: It just feels like fire fighting in my place at the moment and not just the children, stuck between a rock and hard place and lots of soul searching this week 😔 Expand Wishing you a speedy solution xxxxxx 1 Quote
Mouseketeer Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 On 03/07/2021 at 12:24, finleysmaid said: Wishing you a speedy solution xxxxxx Expand Thanks FM, just have to hang in there for 2 more weeks 😕 1 Quote
louby loo Posted July 3, 2021 Posted July 3, 2021 On 03/07/2021 at 13:02, Mouseketeer said: Thanks FM, just have to hang in there for 2 more weeks 😕 Expand 🤞🤞 for the last two weeks I think term has been a really hard one, I know my team are fatigued and it's really beginning to show now :( 1 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 3, 2021 Author Posted July 3, 2021 On 03/07/2021 at 10:01, finleysmaid said: Busy week here.....lots of transition stuff, a safeguarding concern (may be a ploy to get on the housing list!!!😱} Reports are going slowly!!! have had to cancel end of term party ....so some unhappy clients. Plus trustees meetings and a lovely phone call from a local childminder😊 more ups than downs....so that's good. Children are very unsettled though...needing lots of hugs and policing! Expand On 03/07/2021 at 11:51, Mouseketeer said: It just feels like fire fighting in my place at the moment and not just the children, stuck between a rock and hard place and lots of soul searching this week 😔 Expand Sounds like you are both having a pretty tough time - sending lots of positive vibes your way 2 Quote
blondie Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 bless you both - it has been a very hard year and I think it is all starting to catch up on all of us !! Hopefully the weekend has given you a bit of you time, take care. xx 1 Quote
finleysmaid Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 Thanks All i'm ok but yes a hard year....husband having lots of issues at work too and my kids have both just bought houses.....stress free not but all beginning to look forwards ❤️ 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 9, 2021 Author Posted July 9, 2021 So here we are again - it's Friday! Pretty good week - children are starting to flag a little now (staff too) Have been very busy sorting out paperwork - why oh why have I kept so much 'stuff' that is way out of date? Very much looking forward to a weekend of tennis and football Hope that everyone is okay and that the weekend is kind to all x 4 Quote
louby loo Posted July 9, 2021 Posted July 9, 2021 Friday.... not sure how we managed the week!! 🤣 Staff off self-isolating for no real reason (false negatives 😭). Luckily as most of the children are now over 3, and the fact we always work over ratios means it didn't really have a panic effect. We've just spent the week overseeing as I like to call it. We actually have a pretty good bunch of children this year- no behavioural issues or SEN, so in all honestly it's just been a bit of a chilled out week with the constant worry about whether we'll mange to make it successfully to next Friday ! 3 Quote
finleysmaid Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 BTW if anyone wants a little money off for all the hard work we do there is a website called discountsforteachers.co.uk ....lots of money off ...special offer for today is on paperchase!!! go on treat yourself to some stationary !😂 1 Quote
zigzag Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 Good week for us with the children, it’s getting real now that our time with our lovely older ones is quickly coming to an end. They are such a group of fun characters with big personalities. We are going to really miss them. Haven’t had the easiest ride from some of our parents this week! We wanted to tweak our opening hours in September and have been met with a resounding stamping of feet and complaints. Quite demoralising when you are wanting to make changes to benefit the children! Anyway, need to let it go and move onwards and upwards. Anyway this week we are running a special forest school session for our school leavers which will be a lot of fun. Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the football. Wouldn’t it just be such an amazing feel good moment if we actually won! 4 Quote
louby loo Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 09:14, finleysmaid said: BTW if anyone wants a little money off for all the hard work we do there is a website called discountsforteachers.co.uk ....lots of money off ...special offer for today is on paperchase!!! go on treat yourself to some stationary !😂 Expand I signed up to for that some time ago but I've never really looked at any of the offers. I'll be honest after I'd signed up I though - 😭...I've just agreed to be spammed with loads of pointless emails!!! Off to check now.. (Hate both tennis and football so it will give me something to do 😂) 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 10, 2021 Author Posted July 10, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 13:34, louby loo said: I signed up to for that some time ago but I've never really looked at any of the offers. I'll be honest after I'd signed up I though - 😭...I've just agreed to be spammed with loads of pointless emails!!! Off to check now.. (Hate both tennis and football so it will give me something to do 😂) Expand Oh louby really 🤷♀️🤣 1 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 10, 2021 Author Posted July 10, 2021 louby - this will blow your mind - we are currently watching the '66 World Cup final on Channel 4 😂 1 Quote
Panders Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 My other half told me that he went to one of the matches during that world cup - he must have been about 14, he doesn't remember how he got there, and just about remembers who he went with and thinks it was France v Mexico - mind it was a long long long time ago😂 I originally hail from Essex, a few miles from Upton Park (West Ham United) and so we were thrilled that 3 of "our" players made such an impact! 1 Quote
louby loo Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 16:48, sunnyday said: louby - this will blow your mind - we are currently watching the '66 World Cup final on Channel 4 😂 Expand 😳 I'm currently online shopping - this football/tennis malarkey is expensive! 2 2 Quote
louby loo Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 17:47, Panders said: I originally hail from Essex, a few miles from Upton Park (West Ham United) and so we were thrilled that 3 of "our" players made such an impact! Expand I used to have Jeff Hurst's autograph 😂 ... 1 Quote
zigzag Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 16:48, sunnyday said: louby - this will blow your mind - we are currently watching the '66 World Cup final on Channel 4 😂 Expand We have just watched this. Fascinating how different the football was played then. 1 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 10, 2021 Author Posted July 10, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 20:07, zigzag said: We have just watched this. Fascinating how different the football was played then. Expand It really was so interesting - we wondered about no substitutions... I did say to Mr S 'why am I so tense, I know we won'! 🤣 1 Quote
louby loo Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 20:07, zigzag said: We have just watched this. Fascinating how different the football was played then. Expand On 10/07/2021 at 20:12, sunnyday said: It really was so interesting - we wondered about no substitutions... Expand Was it not just a load of men kicking a round bag of full of air up and down a big field then........ like it is now? 🤣 1 1 Quote
zigzag Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 20:20, louby loo said: Was it not just a load of men kicking a round bag of full of air up and down a big field then........ like it is now? 🤣 Expand 🤣🤣You would think so, but no! 2 Quote
Cait Posted July 11, 2021 Posted July 11, 2021 On 10/07/2021 at 20:32, zigzag said: 🤣🤣You would think so, but no! Expand Is that because they actually were ‘men’ back then? Not this load of pandered, overpaid children? (Duck’s well below parapet) 😳😳😳🤭 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 11, 2021 Author Posted July 11, 2021 On 11/07/2021 at 12:29, Cait said: Is that because they actually were ‘men’ back then? Not this load of pandered, overpaid children? (Duck’s well below parapet) 😳😳😳🤭 Expand CAIT!!! you had better keep your head down Did you know that the players are donating their playing fee to the NHS? Quote
zigzag Posted July 11, 2021 Posted July 11, 2021 On 11/07/2021 at 12:29, Cait said: Is that because they actually were ‘men’ back then? Not this load of pandered, overpaid children? (Duck’s well below parapet) 😳😳😳🤭 Expand I usually agree, I am not a football fan I am a rugby fan and the footballers do my head in! Give me the tough better behaved rugby players any day of the week. But, this team under Gareth Southgate are different, he has made a huge impression on them as people and how they conduct themselves. And as Sunnyday said, their fees are going to the NHS which is great. 1 Quote
lynned55 Posted July 14, 2021 Posted July 14, 2021 On 11/07/2021 at 12:56, sunnyday said: Did you know that the players are donating their playing fee to the NHS? Expand I never knew that! How nice. Mind you I have always been under the impression that when playing for England they did it 'for love of country' 😀😀😀 1 Quote
Cait Posted July 14, 2021 Posted July 14, 2021 On 11/07/2021 at 12:56, sunnyday said: CAIT!!! you had better keep your head down Did you know that the players are donating their playing fee to the NHS? Expand No, I didn’t know that. thanks x 1 Quote
Mouseketeer Posted July 14, 2021 Posted July 14, 2021 On 14/07/2021 at 06:42, lynned55 said: I never knew that! How nice. Mind you I have always been under the impression that when playing for England they did it 'for love of country' 😀😀😀 Expand Haha yeah! Just like we do for the love of the job…I’d willingly work 51 weeks a year if I could have one week of their pay and I wouldn’t even mind doing 40 hours a week instead of 90 minutes for it 🤣 1 1 Quote
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