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To have bought ds's teacher a giant kestrel?

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SilverLining17 · 04/07/2017 11:55

I mean at least she won't get a duplicate and it make a change from 'best teacher' mugs?!

Asked ds what she liked - gardening apparently. DS's class is kestrel class so aha I thought. A little kestrel ornament for the garden. Except it is not little. No no. It is a gigantic genetically modified kestrel. Maybe she can put it at the bottom of the garden so it looks smaller?!

To have bought ds's teacher a giant kestrel?
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Stillwaitingforsummer · 15/07/2017 17:16

I guess the teacher had read about the kestrel and guessed it would be for her.

CiderwithBuda · 15/07/2017 17:00

Love this thread. Love the kestrel of doom.

But love more that it's brought Maryz out of hiding! Great to see you back. Actually thought of you on Thursday. I was buying a Christmas tree! Yes - in July. I thought you would be distinctly unimpressed. Much like DH. Esp as he was overseas on business and kept getting fraud alerts through on his phone as the website I was buying from were having problems.

Sluttybartfast · 15/07/2017 16:50

Kenneth clearly requires a mate at your house, which he will need to visit from time to time.

I'm gutted at the lack of mortarboard picture though.

Who can monitor teachers' online message boards for a 'A parent gave me a horrifying kestrel, WTF?' thread?

DesperatelySeekingSushi · 15/07/2017 13:32

Maryz the Mary z, who hates early Xmas threads and is great with teen advice? Have not seen you on here for ages. Maybe I have been on the wrong threads. Hope you are well x BrewCake
OP Kenneth is an awesome present and someone in the staffroom will be a mumsnetter so doubly awesome as this is a gift of a thread.

ZuzuMyLittleGingersnap · 15/07/2017 13:25

^

ZuzuMyLittleGingersnap · 15/07/2017 13:19

OP,

"Personally I miss him. I feel like something is now missing from my life, there's a kestrel shaped hole in my heart."

PinkSquash · 15/07/2017 09:48

Ahh! I really want a KoD for my public facing office, it would make my life a lot easier

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SilverLining17 · 15/07/2017 02:09

He's a falcon Maryz. Sorry to disappoint! I thought he was a hawk but apparently I got confused and that's not until year 6.

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SilverLining17 · 14/07/2017 23:15

I'm quite glad that the telegraph did not publish a photo! I suppose in the hierarchy of kestrel gifts that KofD would be at the top.

Kenneth the kestrel of Doom went into school today. Ds's teacher didn't seem THAT surprised to see him. Maybe she is a mumsnetter. I managed to wrap him up although his beak came through the bubble wrap and paper. She didn't seem to get any other kestrels...

She seemed quite pleased with him. She looked a little choked up but whether that was with joy or something else it's hard to say. Ds said KofD sat on the windowsill and judged the children all day. Dh is quite pleased he has gone out of our kitchen. He said he felt judged every time he loaded or unloaded the dishwasher. Personally I miss him. I feel like something is now missing from my life, there's a kestrel shaped hole in my heart.

Ds's teacher said she would take him home and put him in her garden but we shall see whether in September if he's still sat in the classroom, ready to frighten welcome the new intake of kestrels...

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MadMags · 14/07/2017 13:45

The Telegraph!

As an aside: I can't believe journalists willingly put their names to these "articles". I'd be mortified.

Sluttybartfast · 14/07/2017 12:50

I can't believe I only just discovered this. Has the teacher got Sir Kit yet??
If not, I demand a picture of him with his hat and monocle.

WhatchaMaCalllit · 14/07/2017 12:20

Is today the last day of school???

PourMeAGlassOfMilk · 14/07/2017 11:21

SilverLining17, your leap to immortality is complete. You were referenced in the Telegraph yesterday on p21 in Lauren Libbert's piece 'How getting and end-of-term gift for teacher became a parent trap'. May I offer you my hearty congratulations!

MadMags · 08/07/2017 12:46

Silver I love you!

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SilverLining17 · 07/07/2017 16:11

We got last year's teacher an afternoon tea experience.
I bet this years teacher is hoping for similar. Won't she be surprised when she gets a giant kestrel instead?

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EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 07/07/2017 12:39

I carried two giraffes up the steps at a train station for someone the other week. But they weren't life-sized.

ZebraOwl · 07/07/2017 12:29

Pacific
My niece's school got to decorate a zebra for a similar thing. Though that one was zebra only. My niece somehow has two hand-prints on there when all the children were meant to have one Confused We assume it's because a staff-member got confused by someone else having used DN's full name & thus panicking she was being left out. Being non-verbal (& having v little sign language) she wouldn't really be able to tell them. I mean, she's pretty good at communicating things, but presumably the nuance of "um, I've already done this" vs "nope, no thank you, no zebra today" might be tough to discern.

To have bought ds's teacher a giant kestrel?
Flamehairedking16 · 07/07/2017 11:57

I am a teacher and I would love a giant mutant kestrel end of year gift!

PacificDogwod · 07/07/2017 08:34

There are giant giraffes, hippos, elephants and apes dotted about a town near by - the giraffe is the best but I can't post a picture as my kids are on it. So you'll have to make do with elephant and hippo Grin
NB These are not carriable as almost life-sized...

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To have bought ds's teacher a giant kestrel?
musicalmama · 07/07/2017 08:13

As a teacher I'd love that. And would love to hear the story of you thinking it was going to be smaller too. These are the gifts you remember.

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SilverLining17 · 07/07/2017 08:06

I'm in the midlands.
I may as well say as I don't think anything is more outing than the arrival on the playground with KofD. I can hardly pop him in my handbag.

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ZuzuMyLittleGingersnap · 07/07/2017 08:00

Stargirl,

That is quite marvellous!

pollymere · 06/07/2017 23:26

It will take pride of place in their classroom. Great gift!

Shosha1 · 06/07/2017 23:20

silverlining please please tell me said teacher is at a tiny school in Wiltshire.

I so want to see you carry it in, if it is 😂

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