Froglet
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Glad to hear the validation Sunnyday - it does make a huge difference! I hope both you and Cait enjoy your events this weekend. Louby enjoy your day with or without an impromptu lunch! I am slightly stressing here - this week I had intended to do schoolwork in the mornings and then house stuff/me stuff in the afternoons and evenings. However, I accidentally took the last two days off school mainly because I was stuck with what I was trying to do (planning but I’ve been teaching for 20 years and it seems like it shouldn’t be difficult anymore) and was avoiding it! Now of course, I’m worrying about all that I haven’t done yet I’m still sat in pjs procrastinating. I need to make myself go and do something even just for 15 minutes to get me going! Other than catching up on the schoolwork I am just planning a weekend of cleaning and crafting and I must remember to send a birthday card- my niece is 11 next week which is just frightening!
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Oh wow! They look delicious and so neat!
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Glad you enjoyed your visit from your niece Zigzag. I have cleared the ironing pile and made some naan bread to have with the aubergine curry I’m making for tea later. Am gradually cleaning the living room. Does anyone remember Nancy off Bake Off a few years ago? She was the one who called Paul the ‘male judge’. Well, she has a couple of green cleaning/living books out which I’ve just bought so am having fun making and using various green cleaning potions.
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I’m glad it’s not just me!
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I think I would go ahead with the injection Sunnyday - it might just be the final boost the horrible knee needs. I have, today, got back from 4 days with family in the Peak District. It was so beautiful and a good chance to reset a little. I have a renewed vigour for trying to sort out my home and have, this afternoon, properly cleaned out the fridge! It now has that satisfying feeling of knowing it’s clean - I keep opening the door to check on it! I made som hot cross buns which haven’t risen very well but I’m sure will taste fine. Next on the list is getting to the bottom of the ironing pile. I did a bit of thinking while away about how to stay on top of things and not end up with a house that looks like some nasty explosion has happened every school holiday. I think I’m going to need lots of encouragement! Apart from that I’m crocheting some daffodils for a window display (I did finish the TARDIS socks just in time!). Hope all are well. Happy Easter!
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Thanks Cait! I hadn’t yet got as far as the Amazon rabbit hole!
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It is absolutely the end of term - am SO ready for it! Am away for 4 days next week with family so need to do a little prepping for that. Mainly I want to spend this weekend tidying and cleaning which doesn’t sound exciting but my house is in such a state. I have never managed to find a balance between staying on top of schoolwork, housework and relaxing a little and by the end of term all of it is in something of a state! I need some good underlying systems and routines I think, I just don’t know what! I’m also frantically knitting the second of the TARDIS socks ready for next week and I have an idea for a spring window display I want to get going on! By the way, the time has come to update my school library seasonal display so if anyone has any suggestions for spring related stories I’d love to hear them - I’m thinking of ones along the themes of growing, young animals etc.
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I don’t have (and never will have) grandchildren but I love my niblings with all my heart. Did I mention that I’m getting a new one in September?
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😂 Definitely one size fits all!
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Happy weekend everyone! I’m hoping for a bit of a rest. It’s been quite a week - Ofsted (at my governor school), 2 evenings of parent consultations, SEN reviews; data submission and analysis, MTP completion and monitoring, loopy children! You name it! I need to rediscover my house and decide what to cook as my contribution to meals for a family holiday and work on my nephew’s birthday present (am knitting him some TARDIS socks). Have a good one everyone!
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That kind of rowdy behaviour might get you a teacher glare.
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I am feeling embarrassed that I haven’t yet bought any cream!
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Thanks for that recommendation. I’m never great at sleeping but am generally pretty good at cat-napping which hasn’t happened recently - am falling properly asleep downstairs and then not sleeping upstairs!
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Congratulations Louby, what lovely news! Thanks too for your kind words - people did enjoy their lunch. I had a lovely weekend going to watch my youngest niece’s first dance show - she was a poppy in a Wizard of Oz ballet. Then Sunday was mostly with family as we celebrated mum’s birthday. Back to school today and I am so tired - am sleeping really badly at the moment and have been properly awake since 3.11am and half awake since about 2.00! I’m thinking of going to bed now then getting up early to do jobs tomorrow. I have a very challenging situation at school at the moment which is really starting to get to me, still - onwards and upwards!
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I was pondering a lemon cheesecake on my way home. Was also pondering the loft insulation just to see how polite people would be!
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Lovely ideas thank you! It will sort of be ‘sit down’ - the food will be ready and people will grab a plate when they can! We have a jacket potato group when someone buys a load of potatoes, we bung them in the oven mid morning and people have a hot (if hastily eaten) lunch for once!
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I’m looking for some ideas - I’m planning to make lunch for some people at work this week (the people who do lots of unnoticed work!). I’m hoping to do a salmon and leek quiche but am wonder What to have with it… any suggestions very welcome!
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Some kind of sound proofing? Trampoline for birds? Doormat?
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I just blitzed some more of the yogurt with some frozen cherries - that was more successful!
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I am laughing at myself. I usually do my best to avoid food waste - my menu plan for the week always includes clear the fridge Friday but I had been thinking that I needed to do more. I often end up with yogurt that’s about to expire and I wouldn’t eat it in time so today I tried a lemon yogurt cake… I think the words ‘epic fail’ were made for this. It bounces and I’m fairly sure is waterproof! 😂😂
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We absolutely did miss you! Glad you’ve moved safely. Great to hear from you!
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Sunnyday - happy to report all are still alive! I am having a lazy Saturday - lying on the sofa alternating between reading and knitting socks and pondering what to wear for World Book day - I don’t like the dressing up part!
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My reception teacher told me today that after listening to the creation story in RE one little girl was devastated because God hadn’t made houses. Her teacher explained that in the story God made the people who made the houses. “Oh, God must have made the hard hats then!”
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I don’t know! Probably no more humiliating than me losing it completely and being really sarcastic! 😉 I usually say )did it hurt you? Did it hurt someone else? Is it an emergency? Then you can save it for later. Today has been better (in part because one of my children who whilst not particularly a tale teller has traits which really irritate the others which then causes them to tell tales - she’s not sitting properly (meaning she nudges others or they can’t see)/she’s making noises etc some of I’m trying to strategically ignore because they irritate me too but if I picked up on all of them we would never get anything done!
