to be pissed off that school expect me to have endless time on my hands to drum up things I don't have BY TOMORROW

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Yeah, because when DS comes home from his post-school regular playdate (BECAUSE I WORK FULLTIME) at 8.30 with a note (dated today - it wasn't even, as usual, that he had forgotten it earlier in the week) insisting that we supply the following for tomorrow:

green and red peppers (fortunately have some in the fridge, past their best by date but not rotten so they will have to do )

plastic mixing bowl (nope: only glass ones in this house)

sieve (nope: just thrown a bashed up and bent one out)

clean tea towel (in this house? Are you kidding?)

...well, all I want to do after getting up at 6am following a 3am screaming session by youngest son followed by me breaking the cot painfully with my shoulder and having to have the wriggler in bed with us the rest of the night, getting all 3 kids ready for school which typically involves much screaming and blood pressure issues, getting them to their respective places by 9, putting in a FULL day at work, cooking dinner, bathing littluns, putting to bed, sitting on my laptop finishing off some work and cracking a glass of wine finally before it all starts again, after I've fallen asleep... Yes, all I want to do is rush to the 24 hr Tesco to keep up. 'Please contact us if you have any difficulties with this'. What, using my timemachine, so I can ring you 5 hours before I got the note when you might actually have been there?

What the fuck do they think we do with our time? Rant over. I will not let him down; but am pissed off with this casual and archaic attitude.

or batchelors savoury rice = scumbags

Actually, that has got bits of peppers and onion in, all different sized shapes to aid their sensory development

I think I would have cried if I had been asked to make this. Seriously. I was very nearly broken one Christmas when dd's nursery asked for pomanders. Bloody things. Trying to secure a bit of silky red ribbon to an orange without using pins was a feat worthy of the Krypton Factor.

Just send what you have got.That's all they will expect.

Perhaps teacher is full-time working mum feeling stressed with screaming kids at home and then goes to work to deal with more kids and it just totally slipped her mind until the day before!!

No, I'm not a teacher, but just trying to come at it from a different angle. I would imagine that she hopes half a dozen children bring things in and that'll do. Ds2 needed various things the other week (Yes I did have more notice than you) and he came back having not used any of the things he took as they had plenty.

Yanbu, but I wouldn't stress out over it and just send him with what you have.

Fair enough - but I'd still expect to do my work to a reasonable level!
Lol nickschick - can you imagine the parents who send their DC in with a pot noodle as that's the closest thing to rice they have??

I think I am worthy of entry here.....

Ds1 tells me at 7.55 am he needs stuff for paprika chicken for food tech .

ok says I

Today says he

quick dash to tesco for - chicken breasts,hot paprika,sour cream (all of which are 'normal' store cupboard ingredients?? well not in this house)

I even bought a big plastic container to bring them home in ........

hometime

Ds1 brings home lukewarm half cooked chicken with remnants of cream and lumps of paprika in turns out food tech was at 10 am they didnt have enough time to complete the recipe,so they had to bring it home to cook at home and it had been in his bag since 11 pm bcos there was no room in the fridge.

Quick £10 worth of selmonella there.

Nickschick - that would have pissed me off. What a waste of time and money.

There is so need for schools to make something so expensive and complex. DD had to make chicken cacciatore once ffs. In my experience that is something that needs stewing for ages in an oven, not something you can rustle up in a school food tech lesson. Hers was inedible as well.

My dd remembered that she needed to dress as Charles I one morning at 7.20. We leave at 7.30.

I did it.

We were warned yesterday morning that they were having a 'beach day' today and would need swimming costumes and towels - luckily ds has some (and can still squeeze into them) but some people had to go out during the day as they were going to get some for the summer hols...

What a waste of food - chicken is expensive

At least we'll escape that at secondary as we're all vegetarian!

Mine aren't at school yet, but I remember doing this to my poor mother CONSTANTLY (well into 6th form!). My school were actually pretty good at giving notice, but me and my sisters (all at same school so it would only have taken one of us to remember) lost and forgot letters in unison.

She finally put her foot down when I forgot my text to an open book A'Level English exam and I had to use the library copy with no annotations but lots of drawings of knobs . I think she was just broken from years of rustling up fancy dress in the car on the way to school.

As annoying as it is, I completely understand that you don't want your kid to be the one without the right equipment so you just tough it out.

You don't have ANY plastic mixing bowls?

Who the bloody hell is Charles! psml.

Bumpt - I too have a plastic sick bowl - it had been 'my' sick bowl as a child - it is now ds's - but I do have a stainless steel one that ds uses for cooking just in case he drops it...

Oh sorry just reread it and saw Charles I. Lol at own stupidity.

Christ, how did you do that? Doublet and hose and a ruddy great big wig. What did you do?

We have a sick bowl too. It's been the sick bowl since I was a baby. When people come over and use it, I always avoid the food in there even though it's definitely clean...it's like a Pavlov reflex if I look down at it....

ingles2 we already get text alerts from the school, although they tend to be about the school AGM not to remember peppers, a bowl and sieve .
Now feeling slightly guilty about asking parents to make their child a clockwork-style key for their child to wear on their backs (creative dance performance altthough to be fair I gave them plenty notice and it was optional in a if-you-are-so-inclined way. One mum said it was better than washing her windows

When DD was in Reception they did tie-dyeing and we were asked, at two days' notice, to provide a "plain white T-shirt". Any idea how hard it is to find a plain white T-shirt for a 5-year-old girl? (Well, maybe it isn't any more, but it was four years ago!)

As if it would still be white, anyway. If dd did have anything white when she was that age it was normally covered in pen stains.

Even though I was a vegetarian, and still am, they always used to make me cook the meaty stuff in food tech, even though they knew I was never going to eat it, and neither was anyone at home. We must have wasted so much money!
We have a sick bowl, although we also use it to soak things with stains on - heaven forbid that anybody feels sick while we have stained clothes!

Mummy2scarlet - really?! I have no intenstion of buying ds1 meat for a cookery class. No-one eats meat in this house and I'm not bloody buying it!

I think I've been utterly naive in my thinking about what happens when ds goes to school. There's just no way I'd go to the supermarket on the way to school for ingredients that he hadn't told me about. Tough bloody luck mate - you explain it to the teacher and you take the consequences. As for it being the other way round with no notice from the teacher - again would send him in with note to give to teacher telling her to get real (I paraphrase of course!), and follow up with written note to head explain said teachers unreasonableness and crap practice.

I've got it all coming haven't I?!

That's meant to say "intention"

Sparkle - lol! You will be ground down by it al in the end and will end up going to the supermarket 10 minutes before school starts just for an easy life

schilke - I think if I was vegetarian there is no way I would buy meat for school cookery lessons.