I have spent the last four hours planning and making dinosaur alphabet cards for the class
next week. THey have come out brilliantly and after lamination tomorrow should last a long time. What have you done recently that you are proud of?

Alt Q: Should I go out tonight for a few beers or be good and stay in and watch Top Gear etc?
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:37, 77 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Good and Top Gear don't go.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:40, Reply)

I have just formulated the perfect jam for making bakewell tart with
it was a mistake to make it wearing only a tshirt and pants though, as I have just flicked scalding hot jam down my leg :(
I have also done a fair amount of housework today, which I am quite proud of because I did not feel remotely like doing any of it.
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:41, Reply)

I got home and avoided the Walworth Road.
Said journey home probably took an hour longer than if I'd sucked it up and gone down it (shut up) but still.

I also made an excellent wedding present choice.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:42, Reply)

What's up with the Walworth road?

EDIT - ah, you were in Belfast his weekend. How was it?
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:43, Reply)

You were asleep for most of it, I think.
I hate it. Go up and down it every day so when I have the opportunity to avoid it I do so like the plague. I instead went on a nice busroute through Clapham and Battersea and Brixton.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

If it was on the bus home from Monty's
I can almost certainly say that I was indeed asleep, or at best semi conscious. How was the wedding?
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:52, Reply)

Belfast was lovely, thank you- really want to go back at some point. Found the segregation highly unsettling but other than that it was lovely.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:53, Reply)

they didnt have one of those fancy fucking wedding list things?
how unusual
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:43, Reply)

Nah, and even if there was one I'd like it to be a personal touch.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:50, Reply)

yeh me too, its just odd for fuckers not to have one of those list things
id not have a list thing. i like surprises
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:52, Reply)

Though making people buy you expensive food blenders and stuff has its appeal

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:53, Reply)

I felt really awkward doing that
so a asuaged my liberal angst by adding a thing you could donate to a charity instead.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:55, Reply)

haha WAT?
fuck that id want ma PRESSSSENTTTTTS
lovely pressssentttts
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

I don't like asking for stuff
it was the twat I married who was all 'I want this and this and this'. Just feels greedy to me
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:01, Reply)

I can see your point.
Though it would be useful- my parents got a Denby set that we still use, and a kenwood, and all sorts of USEFUL things.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:03, Reply)

i never get this
if i pay out for a wedding, im expecting top quality gift'ing in return. or i wont invite them. in all fairness, i probably wont invite them anyway. but my point still stands
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:10, Reply)

im not a great fan of Out myself, i dont really like people
i vote for beers and telly In
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:43, Reply)

Heres a link if anyone wants to see

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:44, Reply)

i can't see, make it be somewhere I can see

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

It's too big for b3tards and I'm to retarted to do it another way
should work now, I've changed some settings
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:50, Reply)

nope
I'll just have to imagine it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:53, Reply)

I'm sad now, how can I post my magnificence online?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:55, Reply)

COCK GAZZING IS WRONG

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:00, Reply)

I don't like the sound of that Bob.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:00, Reply)

hahahaha I worked it out in the end.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:04, Reply)

I'm watching a documentary on the Falklands conflict at the moment.
Top Gear is bent. Beer is good.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:44, Reply)

Top Gear is great you grumpy old fart
how are you today, Jeff?
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

Top Gear was entertaining a few years ago, but it's gone right off the boil over the last 3 or 4 years.
By 'off the boil' I mean 'become right shit'.

I'm okay though, I'm happy looking at pictures of dead Argies.

How is berk today?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:51, Reply)

Pretty good
I have achieved a bunch of stuff which needed doing, and generally had a good day chilling out and doing chores and things. I really do wish I hadn't dripped red-hot jam on myself though :(
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

When it dripped did you say
'Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty. You're listening to the boy from the big bad city. This is hot jam'?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:59, Reply)

*sigh*
No, but 'friends tell me you are crazy', you massive mentalist.
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:02, Reply)

Don't be mean.
Just be good to me.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:03, Reply)

When have I ever been anything else, Jeff?

(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:06, Reply)

This is true.
*Yay! For berk*
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:09, Reply)

Are you coming to Oxford next weekend btw?

(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:12, Reply)

I marked more work.
Still 5 left, though
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

Got the guts up to tell a girl I like her
Will find out tomorrow night how badly I've fucked up by doing so.

Alt Q: Beer.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:01, Reply)

why will it take so long?
good luck, btw, sure wish I was so brave
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:04, Reply)

A few of us are meeting up tomorrow night

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:53, Reply)

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:02, Reply)

Aww, I want to date an italian archiologyst and call her my "Georgosaurus".

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:19, Reply)

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:03, Reply)

cute!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:04, Reply)

What's going on with the letter O on the left?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:05, Reply)

I did the vowels in the red but cocked them up so re did them.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:07, Reply)

Your room is a right state.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:11, Reply)

how can you tell that from the foot of my bed?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:14, Reply)

because he's hiding in your wardrobe peeking out

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:11, Reply)

They are proper cool
Did you hand draw them all?

The annoying thing is that you can spend hours on stuff like this and the kinds never realise.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:12, Reply)

Yeah it took bloody ages but I am really pleased with them.
I like making stuff like that though it's therapeutic.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:14, Reply)

What year group do you have?
I had year one last year and loved it.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:18, Reply)

Year one, they are ace. Bar the mentalists.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:20, Reply)

I love year one.
They start the year only vaguely aware of their own name an leave able to read and write, a bit.

Even the mentalists are fun. I had three last year with 'behavioural needs' but luckily I had a brilliant TA who could keep them on track while I got on with the teaching.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:25, Reply)

We have two who have one 2 one assistance and even then they manage to disrupt the whole class.
But you are right they are a brilliant age. And it's easy to see added value at the end.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:28, Reply)

Two with one to one assistance?
For behaviour issues or more complex needs?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:32, Reply)

behaviour both of them.
One is in foster care and might be the devil and the other was in a nurture group but back in class now.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:34, Reply)

We have a few of those.
I don't have my own class this year, I'm doing PPA cover, so I tend to meet a lot of our children with behaviour issues. We tend to attract them. We've got one kid starting next week that the PRU have washed their hands of after he broke the deputy heads nose!

It worries me that there are so many young children with these kinds of issues.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:41, Reply)

that's nuts, it is a worry though.
This kid saw his mum raped twice by his dad who was then thrown in jail and the mother couldn't cope so he got taken away. He is overly aggressive and sexual and will not cooperate with adults.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:42, Reply)

Oh the poor soul.
It is so heartbreaking when you have children that have real issues to deal with like that. You can forgive them for their behaviour. Doesn't help when they are kicking and swearing though.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:45, Reply)

Jesus christ that's dreadful
how do you get so fucked up so young?
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:43, Reply)

I'm not young
or particularly fucked up.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:47, Reply)

Haha!

( girlinthehole, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:47, Reply)

Pfft!
I meant that it's dreadful that you can barely be out of kindergarten and already a little monster. It's so unfair.
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:52, Reply)

We have taken children who have been excluded
from nursery.
Sometimes something dreadful, like the case above, has happened. But sometimes its just a case of the parents needing help parenting and not knowing where to get help. Also the parents don't realise they need help. They don't know that their child's behaviour is not the norm.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:57, Reply)

A friend of my sister fostered a blue eyed, blonde haired boy who looked like an angel.
He had lots of problems due to his parents being heroin addicts. To see him blossom under her care was wonderful. She's just a normal mum with some training in childcare and all she did was love him and care for him.
( girlinthehole, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:02, Reply)

Sadly often all these children need is to be loved and cared for
but it's something the parents can't or won't do.
We had a family of children all of whom were taken into care after the school got involved.
The mum just wasn't coping and the children were dirty and not being fed.
The first day they came back to school in clean clothes and the girls all had ribbons in their hair I think every member of staff cried.

All any child needs is to be loved, fed, kept clean and warm but this seems to be so difficult for so many people.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:08, Reply)

But it bloody shouldn't be
it's the easiest thing in the world, for most people at least, to love and nuture a child. If you can't manage it, don't get pregnant. It's just wrong that so many children are failed on so many levels.
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:12, Reply)

And given that, for women at least. contraception
has never been easier to use or more readily available, there is no excuse.
You can get an implant that keeps you baby free for 3 years.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:14, Reply)

I'm pretty sure I would be shit at it
it doesn't sound easy to me at all
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:16, Reply)

I don't have kids
but I interact with them a fair bit, what with the babysitting and my nephew and stuff. You can't help but love the little buggers even when they are being their most trying. That really is easy. And it's not particularly difficult to make sure a child is clean and well fed, nor to teach it reading, writing etc etc. And if you do it right it's so rewarding to see them grow. People who have kids for benefits, or because they don't know any better, or to be a pawn in a relationship, and who then fail to take care of those children...christ, it makes me furious. Think first, for fucks sake - these are real people that you're fucking up.
(berk, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:21, Reply)

I have been to the garden centre and the gym.
I have also had a nap.

No Spanish done this weekend but I'm going to give it a double whammy after work tomorrow.

Go out you daft bugger. You can stop in when your old.
( girlinthehole, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:40, Reply)

Def going out now, my mate just called and he has been picking mushrooms all day!!
What did you buy at the GC?
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:41, Reply)

A huge plant for the living room as my old cheese plant was at deaths door. I did manage to save the root and new shoots and re-planted it.
Oh and a door mat. The cat kept throwing up on the old one and it was hard to clean it.
( girlinthehole, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 17:43, Reply)

Managed some decent skiing yesterday
Had a disasterous trip up to the Cairngorms shortly before Christmas where I spent the entire day really struggling. Yesterday brought it home to me that it was a combination of horrible weather and dodgy equipment rather than my skiing abilities totally disintegrating over summer. Which was nice.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 18:13, Reply)

If you went to a pub full of ex-public schoolboys
That shout a lot and think they're funny you could combine the two options.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 19:15, Reply)

dammit, is that the time?
i've missed the archers.
good weekend?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 13 Feb 2011, 19:21, Reply)

nice work on the dino cards
a is for archaeopteryx
b is for brachiosaur
c is for creationism is a dumb idea
etc...
( spacefish bong!, Sun 13 Feb 2011, 20:44, Reply)