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That was how it did it 🤣 I kept praising the staff for how well they did it.... even if it was a bad batch I'd find something positive about it, lots of imaginative smells etc. When I do actually have make it myself I get the children to do it.

I've got it sussed- I have the update page saved as a favourite 😁 It used to make ages trying to find it- now it just opens.

We're sort of considering opening longer due to such a high demand this year- but want to wait and see how thing pan out for a while.... can't take anymore children if I only have the two staff members that can actually work (under 50🤣🤣) Which bring me to age discrimination - sure even hinting that over 50's might need to work from home etc is going to create this?....... we had someone asking about vacancies and I have to be totally honest- I'm thinking well you do look under 50....

Good to hear you're feeling a bit better today. 💐🍪☕ I posted off my accounts today, so I now feel a weight of my shoulders 😃 I did try and submit online yesterday but I couldn't get logged in- hence the wine so early. Relaxing day after that visiting granddaughter. Obviously not chatting yet - so didn't have sunnydays issues 🤣

I make my play dough the delegation way 🤣😁😁😁

Bath and early night xxx Echo can wait until tomorrow 🙂

I'm on wine now.... but a least they're done 🤣

Hope the rest of your day went well. I've spent the day doing accounts- I really need to get an accountant I think 😂 It was going to be our treat for this year, and new kitchen (children!) and an accountant- will have to have a rethink now we've used up our spare money on covid 😬

My best one was when I brought 10 cat litter trays. The driver said -"sorry I just have to ask- why the 10 trays?" He loved it when I told him they were for personal sand/water trays for the children.

Well he defiantly wasn't the Asda man then! ........... My Saturday delivery was over 1.5 hours late, so I text the number for an update on times, and it arrived within about 5 mins - the man literally chucked it in the doorway and ran off without checking the subs or anything! With hindsight I honestly think he was parked up somewhere local and was watching the football 😮 . I didn't mind it being late, but an update or apology would have been nice. The other week my Morrisons arrived 3 hours early! 🤣🤣 Not sure what would have happened if I had been out. My daughter took it in and never questioned the time as she assumed it was correct as she knew I had a delivery that day. Was quite funny really as I was in the garden and she went in to make coffee... and shouted 'it Morrisons do you want me to sort it?' I said yeas please thinking they'd phoned regarding the order. About 20 mins later she comes back out to garden, I ask her what had she been doing and she told me putting all the shopping away for you! I have to say all the delivery drivers have been absolutely fantastic throughout this situation. ... Well apart from the above Asda man- he's delivered three times to me now, and the first time he argued that my house number was not correct, and that actually our number belongs to a house 4 doors away! (guess who tried to deliver to the wrong house then!). I have decided never to have a Saturday Asda delivery again..... the Saturday man has a bad attitude 🙄

We're planning on hand washing only. We haven't used anti-bac hand wash for a long time.

At least I have a few spring chickens...47 +49. 🤣

Same with us. Not that we can set anything up yet anyway 😂 Staff are back on the 2nd Sept, children not in until Mon 7th. We will spend time working out what we'll do then. Staff are going to be in for a shock though- because they will be expecting an easy few days coming in late, leaving early as no children, usually I'm very leaneant on non-children days ......... however as they've happily taken the money and not given the setting a second thought throughout our closure, they'll be working full hours! They will be completely sorting all our resources between them- whilst myself and deputy work on the updating of paperwork (whilst drinking coffee in another room!!!! -Deputy has been fantastic throughout Ok rant over ....

Wow! That's a great make

Yes!

Don't be impressed they are only the seat part- each chair seems to have 5,000 staples that need removing though 😩 Blanket is Persian Tiles- Eastern Jewels colour way. I've never done an actually kit before but it saved my brain needing to choose the colours 😃

He's beautiful 😍 My makes so far this holiday- two dinning room chairs covered. Masks made for friends and family, and the crochet blanket still in the kit pack unopened 🤣

I think they changed it a while a go, so post on 'chatty threads' no longer count.

Very true.

I think my problem I haven't left my own little 'bubble' world. (play on bubble word there!😂). My husband asked if I could drop a prescription off at chemist... 🙀🙀🙀 (he collects our two elderly neighbours bits along with his own). Now I haven't really been out to shops at all. First hurdle- sigh. says three in shop 3 only.. I look in and think is that three altogether, or staff plus three? then I see the pharmacist walk from his side into shop!! ... I'm thinking how many is that now? 2 customers,+ 1 staff + pharmacist = 4 in shop...... I wait outside peering in like an idiot🙄, I'm thinking.. well no point being inside as they can only serve one at a time anyway?. When a customer finally comes out she leaves open the door for me- I run in throw the prescription onto the counter and run back in about 1.5 seconds flat as the door slowly closes itself behind me. 😊 Luckily there was no queue- so no one witnessed my dithering erratic behaviour. I just haven't learnt the correct behaviour when out. People who went to shops regularly- as they needed to, were shown what to do, and have now all learnt the correct protocol...... the shops have now stepped back from telling us what to do- because most people now know how it all works. This must be what it's like for our little ones coming into preschool for the first time, it's really made me think about it how they must feel, it really is like steeping into the totally unknown.

I may have read it wrong but- The way I read it is that....the government are giving the LA the same amount of funding, what the LA does is a completely different matter ?

Gosh you're both very organised with regards to registration forms! I've not sent them out yet- I always leave it until just before we start back and ask them to brings the on first day. To be honest partly as we do not have a post box at the setting and I'm not really that keen on everyone having my home address. We do not have any 'new starters' for the first couple of weeks though, so this usually works ok for us. Still trying to work out how we will actually start the new starters though? If we had an proper outside area I would do it there- we have a very small outside area but you have to walk around the back of building (no footpath) a kind of back alleyway/private access route to a house..... then they'd have to climb over our fence!

I like that moment when you get home, walk in the door drop all your bags, and think 'that's it' I have the feeling this six weeks is going to wiz by this year.

Ohpps... it's had a bit of a trim up! It went in last spring so not sure if this counts as first year or not? Anyway I blame Monty Don - he told me to do it! I've only done a couple of drastic cuts though, as it seems if I cut a bit lower at this time of year it 'should' be ok 😳, if left until later no so good. One plant seemed to have gone a bit...'can't think of a word'.... so that one had a deeper cut, the rest is really just a trim up of stems. The Ofsted Big Conversations. Main points, inspections will continue properly in Jan 21, although settings with RI or inadequate- with wellbeing and safeguarding recommendations from this September. These will only be checking they have followed up recommendations though and will not give a grading. Setting can actually be inspected from Dec 1st though- although these will only be urgent cases. When they do commence it will be "like the clock stopped' with regards to timings- so for example for us awaiting our first inspection which was due by this July, it will now probably be due by around next April/May time. New Development Matters to be launched in September (subject to gov approval) supposed to be less paperwork, with less emphasise on tracking and date collection. Lots of questions about the lack of child development knowledge in newly trained staff - at all levels not just early years settings but schools too. To be honest it was a weird thing, along with the zoom meeting on the screen there was an online 'chat session' going on with all the participants! Very confusing as I wanted to both listen to the speakers and read the comments people where making.

My place is like a lavender factory!