What No ................Staff Room.................Thursday

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Am I the only one working, wish I wasnt went to a leaving do last night and didnt get to bed till 1, got up at 6.................I want my bed.

I'm not working - and I doubt i'll be doing any CM'ing for a while

Morning Shosha- working, just got back in from walking bus and mindees late breakfasts/snack. Yawn.

Hope leaving do was good fun, you must do these things!

Wow! That is incredible! I was just looking for the Staff room and I thought 'What no Staff Room' So I go back to start it and you thought exactly the same thing!

I'm working, not with kids though. I'm painting the new extension. ceilings and walls. V. v. boring frankly, would rather be in the garden with littlies. I might have to go round the park later, just to get a fix, there's bound to be someone in there I know!

Hiya saltire - how's things going? Settling in ok?

Oh, that doesn't sound too positive Saltire - you alright?

Hi crace. What can I say about the place? Well not a lot really. For the first time in 14 years of living in married quarters I feel like I want to go home, back to Scotland. I actually cried the other day.
My CM thing - course/introduction thingy isn't until 10th July, so goodness knows when I will be able to start CM'ing again.
TRhank you for asking, I noticed on another thread that you asked about me - nice to know someone missed me

saltire....what's happening?
I'm so fed up of this weather, I'm going to try to have a holiday abroad later in the year instead of saving up for house stuff!!
I have SAD and have the lightbox on today, in JUNE, what is going on!!
It was Solstice last night, we went to the allotment and picked some currants, then came home and had our celebratory meal INDOORS with the lights on as it was pouring down and freezing.
I've only got one little one now who's playing with Thomas toys while I try to raise my seratonin levels!!

Saltire, where are you? I'm in South Wales, any help re meeting up?

Thanks earthy, am in Hampshire. DH got posted down here and I'm finding it a bit hard to adjust, which is pathetic really considering I'm 36 and have lived in countless married quarters over the past 14 years.

Saltire your back, how was the move, and how are you feeling.

Right, what can we do to cheer you up then? How about these to start with.

Saltire if things get too bad Im about a hour and a half away from you if you need somebody to visit love. Am at Blandford, (Munz is here as well)

Hi everyone. Sorry to hear you're feeling down saltire, hope you get registered soon.

I have a question again! I have a mindee leaving end of term who I have contracted for 14 hours a week minimum hrs (M,T,T,Fri 3-6.30pm). Sometimes nearer to seven pm. I have heard people mention a sustainability grant before on here, do you think I would be able to claim it for this mindee?? (Usually paid around £40 a week for this mindee)
I have 4yr old mindee going full time to scool in Septemeber too so will also be losing two afternoons work there.

DP will be made redundant some time in July and doesn't seem to be taking it well, he's really down and doesn't know what to do. So money worries are kind of a theme here at the mo .

Don't be hard on yourself, each change and how you react is different. Be kind to yourself, have little treats and try to get to know the area where you are before you have to take all the kids with you.

You are probably dreading going through a learning process when you KNOW what's going to be taught and could teach it yourself!! That drives me crazy but just take a deep breath and think how good it will look;all those years of experience plus up-to-date qualifications.

I've got to go, but I'll be thinking about you today.

I am convinced you would feel better if the sun was shining.......says EM riding off on her HobbyHorse!!

Oh Saltire, do you know anyone else in the quarters? I'm sure there will be someone nice there hun. I would feel exactly the same as you, it's a big change.

Thanks everyone. It's so difficult because we lived in our last MQ for nearly 5 years. We were a couple of hours away from both sets of parents. Now we are 7 hours from my mum and 8 1/2 from MIL (although that's a good thing). The DSes are really struggling. They have gone from living in a quiet cul-de-sac in a small village with a park at the bottom of the street and loads of friends to - well nothing really. All the cub grpoups appear to be full so they can't join them, it's too late in the school term to start any clubs, and I'm used to RAF lifestyle where most people's quarters are on a camp and there's things to do, but it's not like that here.
Also because I can't do any CM'ing yet because of stupid regulations I'm climbing the walls with boredom.

Sorry for ranting when you have all been so nice, but I'm fed up

Saltire, I can certainly understand why you are upset - you left a good thing and being away from family is just rubbish isn't it? Mine are 7 hours by plane and every once in a while I get really really homesick.

Give yourself some time, hopefully this regulation stuff shoots right through, being a CM in Scotland will only help I am sure. Sounds like it's a busy place, so hopefully lots of people who need CM!

Where the heck is Hampshire, anyway? I am in Kent. Wouldn't it be so fun to do a CM meet up? Shame we are so far away!

PS - Kay, hun, I have no idea - let me know what you find out though, be interested in that myself!

Rant away m'dear! I wish I could be of more help than offering cakes, but I can't even to begin to imagine what life is like with a dh in the forces. I can listen though. My dd is going to stay at my Aunts in Stockbridge in Hampshire in July, I could send her round if you like. She's 11 and well used to entertaining kids and very good at cheering people up! Bless her, my aunt runs a B&B and she thinks it'll be fun to stay there for a week and help out!

crace - you don't know where Hampshire is? I thought I was bad at geography. I'm very near Portsmouth. hampshire is that area - Poartsmouth, Aldershot, Havant etc

I think as well that because my Fibromyalgia has flared up, I've been in pain for the best part of a week now, it's also affecting how I'm feeling emotionally.

Crace! Didn't we have this convo a couple of weeks ago! Hampshire my dear is not that far from Kent! Get a map up on the playroom wall! Round the M25, onto the M3 and you're nearly there!

Morning everyone

Saltire - I was going to ask you where in Hampshire you live now as we're right by the Hampshire border but Portsmouth is not our end at all I really feel for you and hope you feel happier and more settled soon.

I'm just off to make another cuppa as I was half way through making one when baby turned up and I'd arranged a meeting with her mum about this double pay care etc. and by the time we'd finished, it was stone cold.

I'm sooooooo hungry as I haven't eaten since yesterday lunch - anyone got any yummy treats for me???

How about jam donuts? LT. How'd you get on with Mum of baby? Anything resolved?

Just got my post. Jury service has been deffered until 17th December. Still the school flippin holidays, but at least I might get away with a week, since its a week before Christmas! Kinda pleased, I suppose, still really don't want todo it though. Did you that have done it, have to send details of your childminding duties etc, to get off. Trouble with mine is, that since it is the holidays, I probably won't have any kids anyway!

Thanks but only like plain dougnuts - especially the warm ring shaped ones - YUM

It went ok thanks. I've explained everything about not being able to keep this arrangement long term etc. I was explaining that when ds becomes an over 5 in January, I'd want to get another child etc. I might be wrong but I think she was trying to hint at the fact that financially it would be no different when Aaron goes up which in the nicest possible way is none of her business. I replied to this saying we always planned for when Aaron was this age that I'd need to maximise my income (but again, it's none of her business really, if I have the spaces I'm entitled to fill them!). She was LOVELY about everything though and has just emailed me so I'm going to confirm everything in my reply - want it in writing! Anyway, between me and the staffroom, I was that person 'thinkingofbabyno2' (if you saw my thread) and so I'm hoping a new baby will replace ds as far as under 5's go - just didn't want to tell her this at this stage.