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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?!

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SilverLining17 · 05/07/2017 20:22

Nope. Not West Country.

However KoD is proving useful. He eyed ds this morning round the bedroom door when he wouldn't get up and he pecked dh for putting a dirty plate in a clean dishwasher that needed emptying.

He's just threatening enough with a slight undertone of judgementalness.

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MsJudgemental · 05/07/2017 19:10

Are you in the West Country?

MumBod · 05/07/2017 19:00

You're going to have to call him Keith.

arrrggghhhhhhh · 05/07/2017 18:54

*can't

Ffs.

arrrggghhhhhhh · 05/07/2017 18:54

*cant

arrrggghhhhhhh · 05/07/2017 18:54

I was in a school once that had sea side creatures.

I can list them as that would be outing.

Such a present would have been slimy and smelly for me.

Somerville · 05/07/2017 18:52

Teachers all over the country petitioning SLT to rename the classes "gin" "merlot" "prosecco" etc to make Christmas more fun.

Grin Grin Grin

This thread just keeps giving.

arrrggghhhhhhh · 05/07/2017 18:52

Awesome!

I'd have loved this as a present!

All I have ever got that was memorable was a can of lager and a couple of cheap snow globes.

(It was Heineken though)

MavisFlumpTheFairy · 05/07/2017 18:50

Will it be an avian version of the 'Elf on the shelf'?
It's definitely got a baleful glare......

Goldiloz · 05/07/2017 18:47

My husband and I are both teachers and we love it. I hate getting shit wine that I have to try and palm off on people at parties. One kid gave me Lambrini one year. The kestrel is good!

MrsHathaway · 05/07/2017 18:45

Teachers all over the country petitioning SLT to rename the classes "gin" "merlot" "prosecco" etc to make Christmas more fun.

MrsHathaway · 05/07/2017 18:44

I think he should be trained to glare irascibly at Ofsted inspectors.

I am howling at this thread. Sir Kittering Windfucker (obviously correctly addressed as Sir Kit which sounds like "suck it" for added snort) will be such a favourite with the new kestrels. I'm jel actually because DCs' school is single-form entry so the classes are called, erm, Year Four, etc. I think there's something delightfully whimsical about nature names for children's classes.

Actually I remember DC1 being in the Ladybird room at nursery. Naaaaaawwwh.

I think it's an excellent gift and the alternative you considered is not nearly enigmatic enough. She might have thought you meant it.

Doesitgoto11 · 05/07/2017 18:40

Omg. PLEASE let this become part of 'Classics' Grin

My mum is a retired teacher and she'd have loved a Kenneth 😂

lolalola19 · 05/07/2017 18:34

That is amazing - where is it from?

treacletoffee23 · 05/07/2017 18:31

Love it...and it could have different outfits for each occassion - Christmas Jumper, Pumpkin, Mortar Board for OFSTED...

0ellenbrody0 · 05/07/2017 18:01

I'm a teacher and I would love it. It would be a class mascot and I'd give it a silly name (and a ridiculous voice).
Fab gift!

ZuzuMyLittleGingersnap · 05/07/2017 17:40

Bit,

What sort of card manufacturer figured there's a market for those featuring an actual dead kestrel.

Some kind of coded message?
Like the Mafioso "sleep with the fishes".

ZuzuMyLittleGingersnap · 05/07/2017 17:32

OP,

"Yes ds won't be a kestrel next year. He will be a hawk!"

Start saving your pennies now, then...which teacher wouldn't be utterly thrilled to receive this for Christmas?

www.christmasinprescott.com/red-tailed-hawk-glass-ornament-by-old-world-christmas/

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SexLubeAndAFishSlice · 05/07/2017 16:37

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MycatsaPirate · 05/07/2017 16:06

This thread is fantastic.

The Kestrel of Doom.

The giant robot

Esme who teaches a Kestrel class.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/07/2017 15:52

Here's the gift card to go with the KoD. Should add the appropriate level of menace

To have bought ds's teacher a giant kestrel?
gincamelbak · 05/07/2017 15:22

That new kestrel is clearly saying "BORK" And is inferior to the Original Kestrel of Doom.

Spadequeen · 05/07/2017 14:54

Well I may as well give up now, nothing is going to beat that!!!

Rednailsandnaeknickers · 05/07/2017 14:50

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

I did a proper snort at that and woke the dog. PLEASE put exactly that in the card, OP, it's perfect!

Dahlietta · 05/07/2017 14:13

Oh yes, don't get me wrong - KoD is awesome. I think if she does have a flock of them, that just makes it a little bit more awesome.