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Yes, I think you must go in and make smiling noises. Do what you said, ask to see the IEP and make an appointment with SENCO. Look outside of school too. The school probably won't get any help outside in dealing with dyslexia - it isn't deemed 'important' enough. They are probably between a rock and hard place too.

It'll be okay.

Specialist help will be out there, if you can find it.

Right. Off to bed now. Nice cup of your favourite tea and a book.

Be all Anne like on Monday morning. Good old Anne, she's an awful narrow-minded old bag, but god she can be useful sometimes.

Yes, the head did say even if there is a diagnosis of dslexia, it ends there.

I am off to bed too, after tea and a turn, though it will be brief as it's bloody freezing.

Thanks again.

Goodness Franny, how scary for you. Hope things are better now! What accent do you have then?

Sorry about school problems, Mrs C. Sounds very stressful.

I am having an odd day.

Oooh yes, I have found a Dyslexia Action sub-post nearer to you. That's good. It might be worth contacting them you know.

Good night. Am off to bed too.

sorry, morning veggers, that was a lengthy school moan, and Franny, I forgot to say how worrying that that must have been yesterday. glad its all ok.

Kiwi, grape, pear, apple, banana and passionfruit with granola and yoghurt

Good morning

V bad F&V - 1/2 tomato and a banana yesterday.

OR - Franny has a grown-up accent

Why did you have an odd day yesterday?

Grown-up?

My day was ok really, just me being silly. My friend and I had a big day out and made earrings at the bead store. Was lovely.

gosh how nice to wake up and find everyone has been sorting everyone else out
I love this thread

MrsC so sorry to hear of this. Bee and 100's advice sounds very good but all very wearing and why SHOULDN'T you expect the school to sort it out for you? it's rotten

Have had a lie in the last 2 days as dp at home and I have not been working so have slept about 10 hours each night. Fantastic. I had lovely vivid dreams about having the baby and holding her (?) and naming her

I am going to see that film Juno today, 100. Shall report back.

I can't wear earrings anymore, they make my ears really sore. DD keeps asking to have hers done but I don't want her too. I had mine done fairly young, eight or so but I don't want her to for some reason. Mind you she is only six.

oh LOL while I was posting everyone else has got up!

OR I don't know but everyone was very surprised by it and teased me about it

I am from a not very posh Sussex town and then have lived in Essex for nearly 20 years so I think I have a bit of a slack / Estuary accent or something. It was described as a twang

6 is young, I had mine done about 8 and it was painful

is it because you think it looks

erm

common?

Thanks, Franny. I love the dreams we have when pregnant, mostly, they are so very surreal aren't they? And rude!

I want to see Juno too. I am having a burst of wanting to go to the cinema atm, probably as I haven't been able to go for so long.

Yes

well, partly

also I just don't like the idea of a gun shooting a hole through her ear

Plenty of time for ear piercing if your dd is only six, MrsC.

I imagined you sounding all rural East Anglian, Franny

I can't wear them any more either
the holes get squelchy and revolting

probably because I wear cheap ones and not proper gold or whatever

My friend just took her 6 week old to Claire's Accessories to get her ears pierced

don't have them done with a gun at some cheapo place by a 16 year old
my ear nearly collapsed from a crappy hair salon doing the top of my ear
I think the best ones use needles [quake]

OR I don't think so
although no-one would actually tell me

oh erk cross posts
Clare's is a prime offender I think

ew at squelchy!

They are rank aren't they, when a layer of skin grows over the hole and you have to pop it with the back of the earring. Yuck. One of her friends has them done so she asks periodically.

I had to leap out of bed at 2am as the tooth fairy had forgotten to come. Disaster averted.

I don't usually wear interesting earrings but now I have to. It was either jewellery making or painting expensive plates and I wasn't feeling imaginative enough to do painting.

There are regular threads about people witnessing babies being 'done' in Claires.

I had mine done on the back of the market!!

glad the tooth fairy remembered