Monday Staff Room

Hi girls, manic day here - more a Friday feeling, bickering/not sharing - blame it on the weather! Be back later!

enjoy your morning kay is ds ok now?

i'm lucky with my parents i don't seem to have problems with payment - i have in contract that they pay me at pick-up on last day of minding for week, if they didn't pay i wouldn't mind the next week.[easy to say that in theory - i've never had to put it in practice]

hello wet'n'windy people!!!
got soaked walking the 10 mins to pre-school and back - so decided to skip group today as i didn't want to sit in soggy clothes and shoes in a cold church hall!
mindee happy playing with happyland farm

so far we've just lost one slate which was hanging off anyway - DP had to start work at 6am due to severe weather warnings

I need to write a bit in my newsletter about communication. So if a parent doesn't need me to let me know. To let me know when they will calling in with my money each week (rather than 6pm on a friday after me chasing them all day), and so on. Any ideas how to put it tactfully??

One parent is great at this, other two are terrible. They seem to consider it a great inconvenience to pay me on time and seem to really resent paying me full stop. I am fed up of it.

Seems I have day off today. Older mindee is poorly (mum let me know this morning) and baby not turned up again with no call or text. So can have a lovely morning with ds.

Morning all, rare oppurtunity for me to get into the staffroom today, have DD3 off school with some sort of viral infection. Have got two mindees today who are busy playing with dolls and pushchairs etc. Some of the dolls clothes are starting to look grubby so will get mindees to "help" load them all into the washer - hopefully they will come out sparkly clean!

SB, hope your interview goes well.

Crace, hope your DD eyes clear up quickly.My Mum has viral CJ at the moment and is banned from our house!

EllieM, hope your garden survives the bad wind. I'm waiting for a tree in next doors garden to be blown over (hopefully not into our garden as it will flatten the play house and the trampoline) It's a very long story regarding said tree and cowboy tree surgeon.

Hello to everybody else I haven't mentioned and lastly well done Mo for getting your new job!

Morining all

It is chilly here

Are we all expecting wild children (with the wind)?

I thought that too mml - anything cake like doesn't last in my house!

Sure they would be ok tho EM!

Morning girls. I've never been able to keep chrispy cakes for longer than a couple of hours tbh! I should think they'd be ok in an airtype box til Saturday though.

It doesn't appear to be too windy here. Very wet and I will have to get changed when I get back from school though! Got 4 schoolies to take to school and one pre-school, who's dad is a builder, so he thinks he'll be back in a couple of hours! It may be a very short cm day for me!

Morning
It's wet and windy here too! Have just emailed ofsted my variation request so need lots of mn vibes sent my way until I hear back.

Can you allhelp me on my thread when you get a minute? Thanks.

Morning everyone,
I didn't sleep half of the night because of the wind and rain. I am glad I tied some of the things down in the garden!

belle - goodluck with the interview.

crace - let hope it's not the CJ.

ellie - I usually say they last about 3 days max (really about 2 hours as get eaten).

have a lovely windy day.

windy here too, trees down etc on dh's way to work so he's gone m4 instead. garde looking very battered! Only one lo today, off to see a friend this morn.

Quick question - how long will chocolate crispy type cakes last? dd wants to make some today but we need lots for egg hunt at school on sat so was hoping they'd keep in airtight box? tia

We are very windy here! Yikes. Have two coming today but the usual half day and then I need to bring dd to the gp as she is getting gunky eyes and I want to preempt the dread CJ. They are red already, so no doubt it's on it's way. It never ends!