Froglet
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Glad to hear you’re ok. My brother-in-law (a tree surgeon) was getting lots of calls yesterday! I’ve had a productive morning doing some decluttering in my dining room and putting some new storage in my downstairs toilet/utility room which has made a huge difference to how organised and tidy it looks. It’s very therapeutic! I have discovered though that I have to go food shopping as there is nothing at all sensible to eat in the house. I’m debating doing that, tidying the mess that results from the decluttering and crafting for the rest of the day.
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I’m impressed at your perseverance Cait - it looks lovely! I’m crocheting a shawl for myself at the moment - it’s from someone hand-dyed yarn I treated myself to a while ago. The pattern is a nice balance of easy enough to lose myself in but complex enough to keep my mind going!
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It’s actually ok in the midlands at the moment - just a bit blustery but it is freezing - the fire is on, I have just filled a hot bottle for my feet and any second now will be wrapping myself in a blanket!
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Thinking of you all.
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Thank you both. I do need to learn to delegate more but my scope for doing that is pretty limited. You’re right, the world won’t end if I didn’t do everything but I am generally pretty good at getting the essentials done. Time out the classroom isn’t really an option. In theory I do have a regular morning to do KS1 lead stuff but that didn’t happen last term due to staff absence. I need to find ways to ‘work smarter not harder’ I think. I do borrow/plagiarise where I can but it feels like so many things can’t be - staffing solutions, assessments, IEP reviews, trip planning, writing a sports strategy are all on the list of things that need doing…
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Hello all, I hope that those of you having a half term break are enjoying it and that no one gets blown away in the anticipated storms! I’m sat at the end of what feels like a long day looking for some new strategies for managing my to do list - it’s epic! I tend to feel like I can (just) about keep on top of the ‘normal’ teaching stuff but I never get a proper chance to get some of those jobs done which need a bit more thinking and because they’re not as time urgent as planning for next week they never get done! How do the rest of you manage to make yourself do stuff?! I admit that I am a procrastinator and that during the holidays I also feel a bit resentful about spending ages on school stuff but I feel like I spend so much time fire fighting rather than managing workload. Any ideas gratefully received!
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Sending much love. Hope she gets things sorted quickly.
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I think it looks lovely - you were brave doing triangles for your first attempt. I’ve made 5 cot/lap quilts and have successfully managed to avoid triangles in all of them! Have any of you read Happenstance by Carol Shields? Beautiful descriptions of quilts in there!
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There are only 12 more school hours until half erm and then I can have a week of not desperately trying to staff difficult situations with already stretched teams knowing that I will be the definition of ‘you can’t please all of the people all of the time!’
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That’s good news. Just posting to say please can it be ‘this time tomorrow’ right now?
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Oh Sunnyday, everything is crossed for you.
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I think it means wait and see - about to take off!
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I wordle and love it - so much my kind of game plus I like the fact that you can only play once a day so I can’t get sucked into it. In crafty terms I just finished a granny square scarf in the loveliest yarn all greens and berry pinks and purples. The I started a new pair of socks, trying out a new yarn which is SO soft.
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It was. My head is being brilliant - incredibly supportive.
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Well, it wasn’t a Jonah day but it has not been a good one. Serious behaviour incident with a child which has left me feeling somewhat wobbly.
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I’m afraid I can’t help at all FM. Hope you get some answers to your questions. Do any of you read Anne of Green Gables? Well tonight I’m channeling her in two quotes… ”It has been such a Jonah day!” and ”Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it.”
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I came on to see if you’d been able to update. Thank you.
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So glad to hear that Sunnyday!
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Absolutely everything is crossed. I hope that it goes ahead and goes well. I hope that 2022 is kind to everyone and thank you to you all for your kindness, encouragement and support in this one.
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I would be completely lost! I’m doing a big house cleaning and tidying before bringing the tree in to decorate at 3pm along with the festival of 9 lessons and carols. It’s a truly dreich day today so I’m looking forward to getting the fires on and candles lit and embracing cosiness! Avery merry Christmas to all of you!
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Sunnyday and Cait, I really feel for you and Zebedee and Mr S. I will be hoping and hoping that you don’t have to use them. The change in isolation doesn’t make much sense to me either, even though it is to my advantage in this case. Other than Christmas Day I won’t really be taking advantage of it. I have had things very mildly - in general I have felt worse for the last 6 weeks when I’ve had a cold and then my asthma was playing up (repeated negative LFTs). Plus I can see how things come and go - I felt great yesterday, this afternoon I am about to crash and fall asleep again.
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I have 2 negative tests - I get to spend Christmas Day with the niblings!
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I’d completely missed all those bags - they were gorgeous! well, I have managed to stay awake all day for the first time in ages and have started a winter window display and made a Christmas gnome (which wasn’t actually on the crafty TDL but I couldn’t resist!)
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Oh Sunnyday, that did make me smile. I like my circular needles for socks but I’ve not really knitted anything else!
