Cait
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Good morning! I’m pleased to hear it went okay, validation is extremely important, especially from a professional! Good! I’ve got a busy weekend too, we are holding our Eastertide lunch on Sunday so catering for 50plus. It’s a free event with donations welcome. I’m making all the gluten free stuff to replicate what’s being provided for the ‘muggles’ as well as sticky sausages for everyone. I was meant to be making the cheese scones for everyone too, but someone else has volunteered! So just making some GF ones now, a Victoria, chocolate cake traybake, quiche, etc. I admit to having bought a pork pie and the bread as otherwise it all gets a bit overwhelming!
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Hosing it down briefly here. Okay again at the mo
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My Easter Brownies for the oncology nurses. Happy Easter everyone!
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Happy birthday FSF! Crikey, where did the time go? I managed a rural but very busy preschool for 25 years until my husband retired and we decided that I should too. FSF was a lifeline for me in my working years - I joined shortly after Sunnyday and quickly struck up a friendship with her, and several others quickly became Forum Buddies! HappyMaz, Mrs Weasley, Mundia, Panders, ZigZag, Froglet ……you know who you are! I loved doing all the admin things and helping folk with all the paperwork forms we had to generate as evidence, back in the day! Great fun in the chat room lounge - I hope someone shut the door and turned the lights out when it closed - many a hilarious evening spent in there! Oh the birthday threads - so lovely to set up as well as receive! Have they fallen by the wayside? And yes, the Children in Need things and the limerick competitions! I still have my FSF mug, pencil and notebook! Such happy days - thank you FSF for taking away the stress of preschool management, you will never know just how much you were all truly instrumental in keeping me sane!
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It’s a nice one, as it’s all about waiting for spring.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spring-Rabbit-Joyce-Dunbar/dp/1783440783/ref=sr_1_3?crid=4U3FJE0QUA0S&keywords=Spring+rabbit&qid=1680358735&s=books&sprefix=spring+rabbit%2Cstripbooks%2C68&sr=1-3 the spring rabbit! actually typing ‘spring books’ into Amazon yielded quite a lot. Including a hungry caterpillar one which isn’t the original!
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Ooh. We had one about a young rabbit whose mum was having a fresh batch. I’ll try and think what it was called.
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I’ve always been sad that my brother and sister in law (who is my husband’s sister) didn’t have children, as the gene pool was so tight with ours that they’d surely have been more than cousins! (Brother and sister married brother and sister)
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We had a visit from our granddaughter this weekend in Zebedee’s ‘chemo window’. So lovely to see Son and DIL, who had driven the 5 hrs to come and spend the weekend. Thrilled that at aged 7, Granddaughter has finally mastered the swing in the garden, to propel herself so I don’t have to physically stand outside in the rain to push her! Now I can watch through the patio door 🤭. Being from Scotland, so doesn’t bother with a little thing like rain! No such thing as ‘wet indoor playtime’ at her school, unless it’s absolutely whazzing down maybe? I’m sure I was about 3 or 4 when I mastered the swing, but we had one in the garden, and I had a big sister. 🤷♀️
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Tardis socks sound epic!
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How odd!
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Well I was told feet, that’s why I do feet 🤣🤭. Although I do massage into jumpy legs sometimes and it settles them down too. I intend to use it next time I get a leg cramp to see if it has any effect on that as well.
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Anyone read this? https://apple.news/AOQfI3upXRceRcTpw3wcMDA. Hopefully that’ll take you to an article about the budget’s childcare signalling a rapid decline in nurseries as they’ll become financially crippled
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I slip on a pair of old bed socks to keep my feet cosy and help it soak in. Careful in the shower the next morning though, your feet will be slippery! I stand on an old towel just in case!
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I hope it works for you too! Really worth spending time massaging it in - or ask Mr S to do it for you! 🤭
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I’m famous in the family for insomnia. I can lie awake till 5am absolutely not sleepy at all! If I sleep well one night, then I don’t for two or three following. Too many tabs open! anyway, I tried this feather and down cream at night. You rub it into the soles of your feet - quite a blob on your finger - for two minutes each foot. I put bed socks on then to keep the sheets clean. It smells lovely! It adds magnesium which helps you sleep, and also helps my husband’s restless legs! It’s not expensive, I got mine on Amazon. My sister gave some to a friend whose autistic daughter has problem sleeping and it worked for her too!
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Back in the dim and distant past, pink was for boys and blue for girls, we are told 🤷♀️
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Errrrr. Mini cheese scones with Boursin and a slice of tomato? Blinis with smoked salmon? Crusty bread or crackers with some pâte or hummus to apply? Crudités with hummus or other dips? Platter of meats and cheeses, grapes? obviously some sort of cake, cheesecake, - trifles seem to be in fashion. If you’re doing quiche, is it a knife and fork event or pick up nibbles? Cold or hot?
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Yikes! Friday again!! 😳😳😳
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That sounds horribly familiar! I can remember a new staff member saying to me in the autumn term that she’d have trouble saying goodbye to the children in the summer term and asking how I coped every year - my reply? Believe me, come April you’ll be counting down the weeks to July 🤣🤣🤣
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I used to love it - we took all our quilts in (staff) and we’d make ‘nests’ and just read books all day! Children would pick their favourite books and we’d really ramp up the silly voices and acting out. But you’re right, it all started to change and become something away from the essence of books.
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It’s a really tricky one, because there’s a fine line between this behaviour and actually telling an adult something important. Could you throw it open to the class each time it happens, to see what the consensus of opinion is? ‘Do you think that Shonagh needed to interrupt us all to say that? Is it important?’ Sort of teaching them ‘don’t sweat the small stuff’. Or would that be considered child humiliating these days?
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Ooh. Not looked at the makes one for ages (dashes off)
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Yep. That sounds the sensible option to me. If you’ve got established 3s then they get first dibs on places, especially if it’s financially sensible for staffing numbers!
