Cait
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I assume, but could be wrong, that there won’t be any furlough payments this time if you’ve not been told to close. I was totally shocked when he said that nurseries and early years would run as normal, and actually shouted at the TV - a thing I’ve never done before. Sent the poor dog flying off the sofa in alarm!
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What a situation you’re all in! I really feel for you all, truly I do. If I were still running the preschool, I’ve no idea what I’d be planning to do. I know that my staff would be up in arms about working in the cold, as they always felt the cold. The children, running about, didn’t seem to feel it quite so keenly, but oh, that old Chapel was cold! I can’t see anyone from Ofsted wanting to sit for hours in those sort of temperatures! My old preschool premises are in what is now a tier 4 area, so we’d be in the same boat. Even without the anxiety of COVID, I wouldn’t want to be trying to run a happy preschool in those working conditions!
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Ours was just the same in our room. - a closed Methodist Chapel. Has to switch heaters off to put the kettle on, etc. We would go through heaters and extension cables regularly - such a ridiculous hazard. We would barely get the room up to 16’ by hometime! is there still that minimum working temperature regulation? Could you cite that as your reason to not open?
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We were able to get down to Mum’s for the day. I cooked the chicken before we left home - thank goodness as her oven was acting up! Didn’t know that until I put the spuds in to roast, and even with the temp up to 270 there was no activity from the oil! I left it as long as I dared, even tried to use the grill instead, but it wasn’t having it. I ended up putting the roasting dish on the hob and browning the spuds snd parsnips on there. The pigs and stuffing balls that I’d roasted round the chicken were just flashed in the microwave to heat them up. We ended up eating an hour later than usual, but it was yummy anyway!
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Yes it really is. Scary times. Sending all you south-easters a socially distanced elbow bump ! Xxx There’ll be no skiing party off my roof this year, I’m having to cancel it, but Sunnyday, I’ve made an attachment for your balaclava so it will double as a mask. It’s waterproof, so you’ll be fine.
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I’m not surprised you’re exhausted! You’ll have been running on adrenaline! Take time for you now. Have you had the test yourself? I can’t remember if you’ve said. Sorry.
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Oh Lynne. I really feel for you. What rubbish times we are in at the moment. I’m praying that you’ve not managed to pick anything up and you are able to relax over Christmas and have some well-earned fun! I hope the snipey parent doesn’t carry on her thoughtless ideas after the break. X
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I always react to flu Jabs. Arm swells, gets hard and red. This year the nurse told me to have 2 paracetamol as I set off to go for the jab and then an antihistamine as soon as I’d had it. No reaction at all! Fab
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On the way home? Jill Murphy
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How on earth is it Friday again already! This is ridiculous!
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Beat me to it! Have a fabulous birthday - and some good relaxing later! 🥂🍰
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I’m binge watching ‘Queer Eye’ on Netflix. I can thoroughly recommend it if you’ve not seen it! It’s fabulous what they do for these people.
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Too flipping right! It’s bad enough that it’s hard to almost impossible to keep the anxiety at bay, without having someone remind you of it afresh in the middle of your family time! There IS life after Preschool after all, even though you eat, sleep, breathe and dream it 24/7!
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Gorgeous! I’m a tea in a pot, milk in the cup first, kind of girl!
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I was mentioned on Jimmy Young’s radio show back in the day, for phoning in to complain that the minister for children kept referring to children as ‘kids ‘. JY read out my letter and completely agreed with me that it says a lot about the care and love that we give our small people, that we can’t even refer to them as Children
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Champagne round at Sunnyday’s tonight then? Needs to be some sort of recognition for such a mega- thread!
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Crikey! You should have named and shamed to your MP or the local media! That’s really not on!
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Community Website Archive.....eek!
Cait replied to enuffsenuf's topic in Early Years Setting Management
For a communications company, their communications system is woefully inadequate. An hour spent searching the website to find a phone number to actually speak to someone, isn’t unheard of! oh and don’t get me started that they think the number zero is an ‘oh’! They’re ideally placed to educate the nation that it’s a number, not a letter, but instead perpetuate this nonsense. I’m glad I’m not just learning the language! -
Yes I’ve read the GL&PPPS and enjoyed it. I was disappointed with the film, as seems to be the norm when you’ve read a book. I had expected to see at least SOME of it filmed in Guernsey!
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Crikey, in my day that would have left only one!
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I know how rare those smiles can be, how hard the fight; but oh, that feeling you get when one comes, especially if it reaches their eyes. The best reward. X
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I said in one of the threads that my 9000th post would be to start a thread on things we have made ourselves that we are proud of. So it could be when you were doing a demo for a child to see what you meant (and thought, crikey, that's good!), or a cake you baked or something you knitted. Some sort of handicraft, anyway. So come on, let's have a bit of show and tell!
