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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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SasBel · 04/07/2017 12:25

Fantastic! DH is wondering what I am laughing at, so I showed him the thread, he says it is not that funny.
Should I LTB? Grin

Great gift, agree with pp, send it in with wine.

blueskyinmarch · 04/07/2017 12:25

That is a bloody genius teacher gift. She will love it.

Vereesa · 04/07/2017 12:25

Definitely get a hat for him!

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SilverLining17 · 04/07/2017 12:24

'Thanks so much for all the help you've given ds. Here is a horrific kestrel as a token of our appreciation'

I definitely need to get the hat. I think that hat will improve things a lot.

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ShmooBooMoo · 04/07/2017 12:24

LongLostCherub How can you think he's horrendous? He's bloody gorgeous! The kids would love it!
Silver You definintely have to get him the hat now Grin

IamaBluebird · 04/07/2017 12:23

I think he's lovely Grin

Whatsername17 · 04/07/2017 12:22

She will love it. Dh's class are Frogs and he gets all kinds of Frog stuff that he displays in his classroom.

BitOutOfPractice · 04/07/2017 12:22

He's definitely doing a MN head tilt isn't he?

I think she'll love him. Seriously. Really. I mean that. Grin

Longdistance · 04/07/2017 12:22

I think it's a brilliant gift.

Orangecake123 · 04/07/2017 12:22

This is fab!

Whitney168 · 04/07/2017 12:22

He looks horrific in first pic, but given the tie-in and the later pic I think that's fab.

LongLostCherub · 04/07/2017 12:21

That's horrendous and hilarious. Someone once gave me a large metal chicken for my yard, it was equally awful. They say it's the thought but, as DH says, what the fuck were they thinking? I kept it as a 'conversation piece' for a while but luckily sadly it didn't survive a house move.
You owe it to us to give it to her, so you can report back on her struggles to keep a straight face before assuring her she doesn't have to keep it and then get your money back from wherever you ordered it.

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SilverLining17 · 04/07/2017 12:21

Is it wrong that I do want the hat for him?

He's like a kestrel that's eaten all the smaller lesser kestrels.

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ShmooBooMoo · 04/07/2017 12:19

He def needs a hat like this! i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02276/3246293_2276477b.jpg

runninggranny · 04/07/2017 12:19

Brilliant!
It's about one and a half times the size of the real thing. Grin

AtHomeDadGlos · 04/07/2017 12:17

That's brilliant. I'd love that if I was your ds' teacher. Would be in the classroom.

I was given lovely, handmade, bunting one year with my surname Mr xxxx. Was pinning it up the next Sept ready for my new class when the Head told me to take it down as we were now a 'first names' school. Such a shame. The parent was disappointed, as the sibling was in my new class, and they all continued to call me Mr xxxx as they were used to it.

GeekyWombat · 04/07/2017 12:17

Hang a little mini bottle of booze off it like a feathered evil Saint Bernard and I think you'll have won teacher gifts for evermore...

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SilverLining17 · 04/07/2017 12:16

Oops. Didn't attach him.

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HellonHeels · 04/07/2017 12:16

That is fantastic! Love it.

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SilverLining17 · 04/07/2017 12:16

Here he is.
My mum laughed for quite a long time. That didn't make me feel any better.

Perhaps wine and a kestrel is the best way forwards?

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ShmooBooMoo · 04/07/2017 12:15

Give it to her. In Kestrel class surely it makes sense to have an oversized kestrel on display! I love it!

FooFighter99 · 04/07/2017 12:15

I think it's awesome! Better than candles or wine any day

NorthernLurker · 04/07/2017 12:15

I would give it and a bottle of wine. She'll need a drink.

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SilverLining17 · 04/07/2017 12:13

She's kestrels again next year - I checked before buying the kestrel. See it was so well thought out. Apart from it is fucking huge and a little scary.

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SilverLining17 · 04/07/2017 12:12

I have visions of her taking it to the staffroom and saying in a long suffering voice 'look what little silverlining's mother has bought me!' and wishing it was wine instead.

It is about 40cm long. I think I should have checked its dimensions before purchase...

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