West London chat into Spring

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thought I would start a new one

hello

little jog this morning, avoided school run and had a nice time insteadlots of smiling people about

KewC enjoy the camping bugger about the posh thingy. Hope the battle bruises won't slow you down (how was it?)

school fete this weekend hope the weather holds and we all have a good weekends

Sun is out. Out tonight, but where to go?

hello all

hope everyone enjoyed the sunny weekend

Kew - hope you enjoyed the camping, picked a good wkend for it

Copper - hope you had good night out, where did you end up?

Sfx - hope fair went well. Last week was quite manic and stressful at times but hope to have a bit more time and check out festival thread

Steppie - Happy belated birthday to DS2, double figures eh? You were right zumba was really good fun, I'll be going again!

Wkend was lovely went to friend's for bbq on Saturday and then we had friends over yesterday, boys loved being in paddling pool. Crops are coming on nicely, we've been having rocket and radish (or rubbish as DS2 keeps calling it)and going to harvest the courgettes today, yum

hello

vbus how lovely to have a crop even if it is of rubbish
hope things are less stressful until the end of term

productive day so far considering but am not hoovering now as the piggies seemed quite traumatised already just from the heat

steppie blocking out the being 10 business it all seems too near now

Hello!

vbus - we went to Sen Nin.

We don't have much of a crop of anything, not even rubbish . We had about 10 blueberries, 2 raspberries. But lots of purple chillies coming up. Yeah! And hopefully some chocolate-coloured cherry tomatoes.

Copper - your chillies and tomatoes sound very exotic the birds keep eating our strawberries, have salvaged only a few. No sign of tomatoes or beans yet but potatoes are thriving

Sfx - you could put hoover on reverse and give the piggies some AC

DS1 asked to watch Steps Tragedy on youtube as they'd been watching at school and learning the moves He also said Andy Murray coming in for a visit next week Not sure if this is true But last time I didn't believe him a real rock band that he mentioned actually did visit their school

It's raining! With accompanying thunder. That will make the tomatoes and sunflowers happy again.

Our crops don't seem very good this year. The raised bed is nearly empty. I'm thinking of planting perennials (garlic chives and raspberry) on the raised bed. No reason not to, is there? Perhaps I'll ask in the gardening thread.

We have an annual dance afternoon which is a BIG DEAL. Every class put up a dance routine. Some of the kids are really quite good. DS1's class doing Surfing USA and DS2's class doing Michael Jackson's ABC.

pardon the pedantry but ABC is Jackson 5

I hope the rain is done by pick up time, there was a clap of thunder so close it made the piggies jump squeal and hide, the poor dears are only about a month old

copper I love herbs in the garden they smell wonderful at the end of a warm day, rosemary, oregano, lavender, along with sweet peas
I have no idea of planting times here climate is definitely different, daffodils come up just before Christmas there so not good for advice.

vbus what bad turned up?
apparently Andy Murray is quite nice talking 1:1 and quite easy with children, do you know he was at the Dumblane school when that murdering nutter did those awful things?
MIL grew up there and her mum's house is still in that village

anyway cheerful stuff 1month to CampB

band not bad

Is summer over then?

Copper - no idea about raspberries but the other two should be fine. Our herbs are mostly potted, tried coriander this year which has just started coming through. Our crops much better than last year for some reason, I guess fewer pests in this garden

Sfx - it was the Hoosiers

how odd is one of them dating a teacher or something?

Summer better not be over, we have Kew the Music next week and a festival to attend at the end of July, I need a sunny festival

btw meant to add I am really into Wallander the Swedish version, amazing, they all look like real people

also I am slightly alarmed that the education minister thinks that universities should be measured by how much students earn once they leave

what does it all mean?

Yes yes yes the Jackson 5. Whatever.

Agree swedish wallander much better than kenneth branagh one. And they don't feel compelled to drive Volvos. Which one though - there's one with a fat Wallander and one with a older haggard one. I like the haggard one. (Sorry don't know names .)

We always manage to get 2 or 3 harvesting of coriander and then it keels over. Make sure not too hot and plenty of water. One year we had enough to make Thai green curry paste. Yum yum yum. Nothing in the shops come anywhere close to home made paste.

vbus - it's garlic chives, not garlic and chives. Never tried to grow garlic. In fact never had fresh garlic. Is it nice? I have recipes to devour heads and heads of garlic in one go. No fear of vampires in this house.

Which idiot is it this time? Gove? I despair.

we like roasting garlic and shallots yum, fresh garlic fine depends how you use it I think, we always had loads of garlic at home hanging somewhere along with assorted herbs drying and huge bunches of camomile for tea

Gove uni plans, as sound as the ones for hospitals, things have to change but perhaps not quite like that.

Wallander only ever saw the haggard bloke showing on BBC 4 Saturday night

Copper - oops, speed read that one My mum has grown garlic in the past, nice, maybe one to try at end of summer

Never got into Wallander although it's massively popular over there

Sfx - I'm all for transparency of info but does seem extreme to rate uni's against this One of parents has a connection with band and thought it would be a good idea if they came in and practised before festivals kick off

hello

lovely morning shame someone stole our bikes
police have been around, apparently the cctv not working, what a surprise

sports day mark 2 this afternoon

vbus yes transparency very useful and full explanations too

got dd's school report, very proud that she is doing well but what gets me is that it is mostly about how she measures up to the national standards, i would rather have an indication of what she does which is more personal, that gives me a sense of her learning and that they know her. to be fair there were some comments like that but all the graphs loose me

Hello!

sfx - at bike thieves. Hopefully bikes can be retrieved.

All those numbers are about national standards. Sometimes one is happy if they got the right child. No faith in institutions. Low expectations means less disappointment.

Would like transparency on how stupid ministers come to stupid conclusions and push stupid policies. When can we vote this lot off?

Hi all! Remember me?

Just a quick post to say hi. Life has been as busy as ever but at least the weather is looking gorgeous so shouldn't really be complaining...

sfx - about stolen bikes! Must be so annoying for you all.

School shut tomorrow so DH is looking after DS. Our work holiday gets consumed by these school insets/strikes/tea parties etc.

We need to sort out the summer holiday childcare asap.(Deep sigh)

Have a nice day, all.

Hello Sushi - nice to hear from you hope you manage to sort out childcare without too much stress

Sfx - that is awful about the stolen bikes, where do these people get off? enjoy sports day

Will be receiving our 1st report soon, I'm intrigued what they'll say.
BTW teacher confirmed AM visit was definitely not true, DS1 was devastated to hear that, he really thought he was coming and was very much wanted to meet him

PS - are we going to have night out soon????