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Oh my!!! That’s fantastic! I think that’s more than our whole annual bil 🤣🤣🤣
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Ooh I watched that too - it was really good. A lot of it wasn’t new info - to me anyway - but it was put across very well at a good level that maintained my interest. Sometimes these programmes feel soooooooo stretched out, and you’re left thinking ‘well, you could have told me all that in the first 15 minutes!’ 🤣🤣
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I always did that - went to work to ‘play’ and then worked till 10.30 every night and weekends on the work/admin side of things, unpaid in my own time. I did enjoy that aspect, but with retrospect, it did rob me of any leisure time completely. Zebedee worried how I would cope with retirement. it didn’t help that the lady who took over from me did all the admin during work hours and was out of the door at the end of the day and left it all behind. 😳
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Yey! Church cleaning this morning and a funeral of a church warden this afternoon. It’s actually quite bizarre because his wife died a year ago, followed a week later by the wife of another church member. Charles died a fortnight ago, followed a few days later by the other church member. So strange.
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Yes! It was two lessons a week for a month! Money for old rope! We only did two weeks! It was £15 per person, but if you brought someone then there was discount - no, I’m not sure how she worked that out either - we did tell her that if she just said that everyone was £10 she would probably get more takers, or even £5 a session. I think a lot of folk dropped out - what a surprise edit - she did provide the hooks and yarn….
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Ooh I love that technique - one of the few fancy stitches I can do - I made an amigurami octopus once in a ‘learn to crochet’ class, where we found out that the ‘teacher’ we were paying was watching the videos on YouTube and teaching herself a few days before our classes - we could have saved £20 a week!
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Sounds about right! just watching the lightning on lightningmaps.org and thinking about how our daughter told us that she used to stand on the (metal) fire escape at her hotel in Guernsey to watch the lightning coming across the island 😳😳😳
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Do any of you remember that satire programme ‘drop the dead donkey’ that was set in a newsroom, where the reporters would throw dead fish, or charred teddies about to make their story more sensational? I always think of that, I’m afraid, with news stories. Especially when they say things like ‘completely demolished the house’ when you can see it quite plainly still standing, or whatever.
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We never ventured into ‘The Lakes’ when we lived in Cumbria, during what was known locally as ‘the silly season’. Living on the west coast, we always just went to the local beaches, which weren’t frequented by tourists. Glorious beaches all along that coastline. Drigg, in particular, near Sellafield, was always quiet as tourists were worried about radio activity 🤣🤭. But the beaches from Maryport up to Skinburness are fantastic. Fish and chips on the beach at Allonby or Silloth are hard to beat!
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So how’s everyone found the new framework? Is it easier than the previous ones, is recording progress simpler or more tricky?
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Oh of course! Silly me!
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You must do all the little things that are preventing you from making a start. Clear a good table space, if that’s what you need. Check your pen works, and you have a back up or two. Good paper and plenty to go at, plus scribbling, doodling area. A cup of tea/coffee and a bottle of water, biscuit or an apple chopped into wedges with the core cut out, satsuma peeled and the pith cleaned off, dish of grapes……. respond to any texts that have come through then TURN YOUR PHONE OFF. sit down and make a start - that’s the hard bit. Once you’ve done that, it’s just a matter of working though it. Hydrating, nibbling and scribbling as you go.
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My aunt took up oil painting when she broke the bones of her right hand in the mangle. She was right handed and taught herself to paint with her left.
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My mother in law told me that growing up in Germany, one of the Christmas presents was a ball of string, with which she had to knit a dishcloth before dinner was done. It was to keep her, and her sister out of the way, I guess. That’s what they got every year, an orange, if they were available, and the ball of string. There would sometimes be a few yards of fabric to make an apron or skirt. How countries and times are different!
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It sums it up better - there’s always the bright spark that comments that someone is crocheting rather than knitting. Our church ones are crafternoons, we have quilling, painting, crochet, embroidery and last winter a lady was tatting. It’s a fabulous idea to learn these skills before they are lost. We are looking for a lacemaker to join us next winter!
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I feel your pain with the tourists
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Ugh! We expected that kind of service living on the moon in Cumbria, but you don’t expect it from your level of civilisation!
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Hopefully enough rain to top up your water butts at least!
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Yes it does! Plus it was a couple of years before I stopped thinking of my year in ‘terms’. I do still quote the old learning outcomes statements in my head when I see or hear young children attaining a ‘target’. ‘Pretend that one thing represents another, especially when objects have things in common’ is a regular one 🤣🤣🤣
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Ah, but wasn’t that because ‘Aunty Beeb’ showed up?
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Yes that sums it up very well! I have also taken delivery of a holiday dog whilst my daughter and wife-to-be are at the Blue Dot festival. She’s no bother at all after the first day when she follows me like a sheep - including to the loo! She doesn’t obey the ‘no dogs in the kitchen’ rule, and my own dog is very ‘put out’ and stands by the door watching yo see if I’ll notice if she slips in too! 🤣🤣🤭
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Computing for 2-4 year olds
AnonyMouse_13453 replied to AnonyMouse_26037's topic in Teaching and Learning
Ours enjoyed Bob the Builder games and similar on the computer and we also had some remote controlled toys. The beebots were either loved to death with arguments over whose turn it should be, or totally ignored - it was definitely a resource that needed an adult present to intervene. Children also enjoyed using the iPads to take pictures of each other - this was fabulous for tapestry as the dialogue was really useful. We had a child who could play minesweepers on the iPad too, and several enjoyed mahjong. -
I wasn’t going to mention that bit as we aren’t meant to know 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤭
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I didn’t mind the heat at all, it was the humidity that I found difficult.
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Here it is, for those who’d like to see! Isn’t it fabulous.
