ADs predict wine and rioting before 6.30pm (but only if the sun's out)

[Dowser]

Over here peeps.

Not much sun today..so plenty of wine it is

@Orangeblossom78

I an just sad that is seems this new school guidance might mean dropping some GCSEs in the middle. Sounds a right mess. Argh.

I wouldn't mind them dropping welsh bacc - it's been badly taught or RE which they make them do or welsh as DD1 should do well but doesn't like it or want to continue - but can't see the Welsh and welsh bacc being allowed.

I would worry if triple science was dropped to double - as she wants to do science A-levels and has been doing tassmai and Senca so had learnt new things herself but she could cope - geography is something she's thinking of doing at A-level as well so wouldn't want dropped.

I do worry it won't be what's best for her but what suits the school as to what they dropped if they go that way.

@SomewhereEast my parents are down that way :) not seen them since new year :(

somewhereeast that is our usual holiday choice, but haven't been since 2018, last year we did South Devon, and this year I wanted to go to the Northumbria coast.

Next year we'll be back to the E.Yorks coast.

Where should I go if I'm allowed out of Scotland? Town or city, preferably?

I think people generally are in denial about death. My mum died just a couple of weeks before covid - she’s have lasted about 16 seconds WITH it! She was diabetic, on dialysis and had inoperable cancer. So not “sadly dead”. Nonetheless there was rending of cloth within the family that the NHS should’ve/could’ve done more.

In the end the hospital chose to cease dialysis. I was the heartless bitch who suggested “blessed relief” and I gather stopping dialysis is actually one of the nicer ways to fade away.

Oh dear, I bit and railed against the dementor in chief...I shall expect a severe telling off from MNHQ at anytime. But good news DD's just rang, she and her DP are checking their rotas for the next couple of weeks and if they are off on the same days then I'm to expect a visit. Yaaaay.

I think people generally are in denial about death.

Apparently it's a know thing people making will talk about if they die not when as if there was a vible option of avoiding ever dying.

@trappedsincesundaymorn

Oh dear, I bit and railed against the dementor in chief...I shall expect a severe telling off from MNHQ at anytime. But good news DD's just rang, she and her DP are checking their rotas for the next couple of weeks and if they are off on the same days then I'm to expect a visit. Yaaaay.

Ooh what thread?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3949762-The-beach-down-south-bbc-news-tonight

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I think people generally are in denial about death. My mum died just a couple of weeks before covid - she’s have lasted about 16 seconds WITH it! She was diabetic, on dialysis and had inoperable cancer. So not “sadly dead”. Nonetheless there was rending of cloth within the family that the NHS should’ve/could’ve done more.

In the end the hospital chose to cease dialysis. I was the heartless bitch who suggested “blessed relief” and I gather stopping dialysis is actually one of the nicer ways to fade away.

I agree. I have had several conversations with my fit and capable 81 year old mum. She is very clear that she is DNR and would not want to be ventilated. She was a senior ICU nurse so I think she knows how badly it could go for her. She also thinks that there are worse deaths than Covid.

Yes... my grandmother frequently said, of my great aunt with dementia, "if I ever get like that, bring a gun in and shoot me!" Fortunately she died very quickly after a heart attack (having conducted a choir concert the night before and rung up most of the family to tell them what food to bring to the hospital when they came to visit...) so this turned out not to be necessary!

@Drivingdownthe101

Anyone surprised by the number of ‘teachers’ on here who really seem to dislike children?

The ones who claim to be teachers on MN (for this is the internet and I could claim to be Elvis if I wanted to) are absolutely fucking shameful. They basically want to teach in a Govt teaching advert - class of about 8 shiny enthusiastic kids in a shiny classroom with smiles on their face.

I see the "can't do it" is out in force with the leaked guidance - wanting face visors, bigger classrooms... basically not to do their job but be paid to not do it again.

I'm ashamed ever to have been a teacher the more I read on the internet - particularly MN to be honest.

@Allflightscancelled
My husband was late 50s when the last recession hit.
He and three others had their own computer company, work was drying up big style. So he didn’t have much to do
So he offered to make himself redundant.
He had about 4 interviews, got down to the last two or three people a d then passed over
He was 58
It was soul destroying watching him trying for jobs ( Sunderland) and having to sign on, so I suggested he sell his house and move in with me which he did.
That was 9 years ago and we’ve had a blast, been all over..not the world..just all over
On the amount of jobseekers he was allowed as a single man, he couldn’t have lived much longer in his house as his savings were going down rapidly and he wasn’t eligible for a pension.

Sorry to hear about problems with alcohol. It must be awful. I know mr Dowser has been through the mill over it and the reason why I’m married to such a lovely man today is his first wife couldn’t conquer her battle with it. She was 50 when she passed.

I barely drink so he has no worries there, although I’m practically legless on one decent sized alcoholic drink.

I do hope you all can skilfully manage it.

I’ve had a lovely crafts session with granddaughter.
I feel like a proper grandmother again..but I’m knackered.

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I see the "can't do it" is out in force with the leaked guidance - wanting face visors, bigger classrooms... basically not to do their job but be paid to not do it again

One of the first comments on that thread... ‘well you arrange my classroom so that I’m a clear 2m away from the students. Can’t be done’.

I wish some employers would identify and discipline some of the teachers for the bile they've spewed on the internet over this pandemic as well. I'm getting more and more angry and the dementor in chief is out as well.

@Jourdain11

Yes... my grandmother frequently said, of my great aunt with dementia, "if I ever get like that, bring a gun in and shoot me!" Fortunately she died very quickly after a heart attack (having conducted a choir concert the night before and rung up most of the family to tell them what food to bring to the hospital when they came to visit...) so this turned out not to be necessary!

I can’t believe that anyone who witnesses the sheer awfulness of losing someone to dementia would wish that on their worst enemy let alone want it for themselves.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane
and @trappedsincesundaymorn

You’ve both lost your mothers recently.
I’m so sorry.

@Drivingdownthe101

Anyone surprised by the number of ‘teachers’ on here who really seem to dislike children?

I've had a few colleague that hated children over the years. They practically counted down the hundreds of days until they could retire and claim their pension.

So many times when I was temporary and struggling to find permanent work did I feel that there was an injustice going on when these miserable old gits limped on towards retirement day and quenching pupils desire to learn along the way.

I had one group on teaching practice with a poor reputation, and they were great. They needed my fresh enthusiasm, not their droning dementory, regular teacher every Tuesday afternoon.

@Drivingdownthe101

I see the "can't do it" is out in force with the leaked guidance - wanting face visors, bigger classrooms... basically not to do their job but be paid to not do it again

One of the first comments on that thread... ‘well you arrange my classroom so that I’m a clear 2m away from the students. Can’t be done’.

This surprised me to be honest. I went to distinctly average schools but I can't think of a classroom where this couldn't be done. One was an old Victorian school too so not big by any stretch.

Lol, my DH would not fit in with the teacher crowd here. His reaction to two meters was "well, it just can't be done" and he declared that if he had to teach in a mask and visor he would change career!

I lost my lovely dad 2 summers ago; he had Alzheimer’s but fortunately his heart gave out and he died in his sleep before he reached the stage where he no longer recognised us. I don’t usually mention the “fortunately” bit because I know it makes some people uncomfortable (so ridiculous to worry about upsetting other people when he was my dad and I can feel however I bloody want) but it was a huge relief that he went when and how he did, as I know fell well what happens during the last stages of dementia.

It's not the 2m at the front I can't see being viable in most schools (and I used to do supply so I've been in a LOT of classrooms)... it's the sitting facing the front in a lot of particularly infant classrooms which have circular, square, or those fucking evil half hexagonal tables that have a vendetta against my thighs permanently bashing the pointy evil bits of them into me.

@DominaShantotto

It's not the 2m at the front I can't see being viable in most schools (and I used to do supply so I've been in a LOT of classrooms)... it's the sitting facing the front in a lot of particularly infant classrooms which have circular, square, or those fucking evil half hexagonal tables that have a vendetta against my thighs permanently bashing the pointy evil bits of them into me.

Ah yeah I see. I cracked my head open on a table in primary. I was the reason they banned slippers and made us all wear plimsolls inside

@Mrsfrumble

I lost my lovely dad 2 summers ago; he had Alzheimer’s but fortunately his heart gave out and he died in his sleep before he reached the stage where he no longer recognised us. I don’t usually mention the “fortunately” bit because I know it makes some people uncomfortable (so ridiculous to worry about upsetting other people when he was my dad and I can feel however I bloody want) but it was a huge relief that he went when and how he did, as I know fell well what happens during the last stages of dementia.

It is fucking awful and something I never wish to see as long as I live. However the awful thing is, I know I will see it again. With aunts maybe, uncles, my mum, my friends. Odds on I will see it, or it will be me.

When Terry Jones died, I saw a picture of him as he neared the end and I was inconsolable. That lost, bewildered It brought it all back - plus there was the unpredictable aggression (my dad was never aggressive in his whole life - he was the gentlest man imaginable), the hunger, the thirst, the struggle to speak, the forgetting of our names, the forgetting of faces, that one visit when he eventually had no clue who I was - awful doesn't cover it. Then witnessing Michael Palin's grief at the loss of his beloved friend. The more I think about it, the more I am fucking insulted that these Dementors should think that Covid deaths are automatically worse than that horror...because you know, Covid. Fuck them.

Oh, the half hexagonals! I move them for PTA events (you can all loathe me now, am PTA secretary) and they always poke me!

Does anyone besides me miss dressing up to go somewhere? I'd like to wear slightly uncomfortable shoes and get my hair done and just feel glamorous for a bit.