In Gourd We Trust - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

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For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

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That Gordon Brown is a meanie isn't he? Sorry Avi.

Have eaten baked beans and pinto beans for lunch. Been out at the library, then embarrassing row after ds refused to say good bye to friends we had been with for an hour. On another occasion I would have ignored it, but this time I didn't, and he just would not say it. There was no reason, he was just being an arse . I thought it was very rude and told him so. And said I was too cross to go to the park.

Oh am .

Just picked ds2 up in tears as he was the last to get changed and some man, in fact ds1 pointed out the same one who hit him and called him stupid and clumsy, SHOUTED at him. I said 'what did he say?' he said, 'I don't know, I couldn't understand, was just noise. I was the last one, everyone else was on the coach.'

Utter, utter bleugh. I have written letters, had talks before ds2 started at this school - what was the point? Huh? I'm going to ring up the school. Am going to actually pin this man against the wall outside the staff room. I'm going to shout in his ear, he is dyspraxic you silly arse, shouting won't make him any quicker you utter utter fool.

Okay, rant over. Thank you. Feel better now. Needed to this here rather than in the wider mn world.

Apparantly so, during rugby, ds1 says he hit him on the head and called him 'stupid and clumsy.' Ds1 was going to write a letter of complaint about it.

I might or might not mention this when I am picking this sorry piece of shit apart outside the staff room - you could lightly scuff ds1's hair and he'd think you'd hit him to be honest - unless you have twin barbers on hand to distract.

However, what is clear is that this person, who is new, hasn't read his files and that communication is not what it could be.

I intend to rectify this in my most terrifying, steely Anna Ford way. grrrr.

oh ahundred

how is ds2 now? is he feeling a bit better?

when was the ds1 incident? that alone would warrant a letter I would have thought.

Brings back horrid memories of shouty PE teachers. WHY have they not changed a jot?

Crikey, 100X.

What an idiotic horrible stupid man who should not be teaching children.

But you're so going to flatten this fool - I got a G-force face just reading your post, he will be told, and you'll make him understand and not make such an error again.

Dd1 is here and i told her about the teacher, and she said that she understands ds2 as she's always the slowest at eating her lunch, and that Grannys friend Marilyn when she was little was also the slowest, and a mean teacher put custard in her gravy and shoveled it into her mouth as a punishment for being slow. And dd1 said 'i am so lucky not to be at school in the olden days!' That teacher needs to realise this isnt' the olden days and shouting doesn't speed children up, it makes them dislike school.

Yes Boco, I am going to flay him, slowly and painfully until he sees the error of his ways and agrees that actually helping ds2 on with his shirt next week is the better way forward.

I have to find out his name first. . .

Ds2 is okay now foxy. But he was quite properly, white-faced with hot tears traumatised, not just grumpy and a bit put out, if you see what I mean. We had to stop for Emergency Chocolate and everything on the way home from school.

is horrid, and I'm cross with the ghastly bullying teacher and now with myself because perhaps this is just the wrong school for ds2, and perhaps I should have realized that and as we are fortunate enough to exercise choice, then perhaps dh and I should have been more thoughtful with that privilege and oh and oh and

Bloody HELL 100

It sounds like The Headmaster Ritual.

And and and and here I was telling Avi what a nice empathetic person he was, which he is, and there he was being bellowed at in some fucking changing-room.

Livid for you

they picked on the wrong mother's son though

Yes, didn't they?

That thought has SO cheered me up.

Sorry to go on. I should have gone to SN or somewhere, but wanted to vent amongst friends.

Good. Venting here is entirely appropriate.

It's just one teacher, though, isn't it?

Or do you have doubts about the school itself?

I mean, do you think the school is turning a blind eye to this idiot's behaviour?

100 that is so for your DS .

On a happier note, Boco has sought me out on FB and is now my Friend. And gets to see a picture of DD and me in hard hats . And see lots of pictures generally of mainly DS and DD.

the bastard - I bet he is totally dominated by his wife at home. He's probably being made to clean the loo with his toothbrush as we speak.

nah, nah, nah, it's not your fault. It's impossible to select a school and have it tick absolutely every box the whole way through.

Hope you get a chance to address the lack of communication too - with the head or head of year or whatever.

Hope you nicked some of that chocolate.

Yes, we ALL needed emergency chocolate.

It's just got worse because they are eating, and ds2 is telling ds1 about it and he said, 'and he shouted at me and was really rough with me.'

and I said 'whatever do you mean?'

'Well he sort of came in and pulled my shirt off, without undoing the buttons and things and he was shouting.'

OMG.

Okay. Let's stop. If I need to go on and on I shall go to SN. Thank you for listening lovely veggy eaters.

Also, on a lighter note, am going to see Atonement tonight.

Emergency chocolate is right up there with crying chocolate.

Avi, yes tis me. I changed because I was very very frustrated and cross at other threads. I am normally quite fluffy. And I keep forgetting to change back. Will do soon immediately.
100x. I am furious on your behalf. my ds (the geek) is dyslexic with possible dyspraxic tendancies and I have head similar incidents. A swimmingteacher hauled him out of the deep end by his arm once because he hadn't heard/understood what was required of him.
What an arse that man is. I will put a hex on him forthwith. Expect to see a vile pulsating wart on the end of his nose shortly....