OMFG the nursery has a Dostoevsky quote on the wall

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Something about time spent with children being healing. DH was very about this as he has had a constant low-level sore throat and lots of colds ever since we had dd.

I'm not used to such ponciness - at our usual nursery Oop North they play in a home-made toy chip shop called the Wobbly Whaler.
This one also has painted on one wall, 'From changing mat to yoga mat.'

Are all Kids Unlimited nurseries like this?

lolol!!!!

no idea about kids unlimited!

... so long as it isn't something about patricide, a la Karamatzov, your dp ought to be relieved.

LOL Shaun!

Love the homemade toy chip shop. Did they have a sign on the wall saying 'From changing mat to beer mat?

I think they should have this one up:

'The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.'

I've always liked that. Would get the Ofsted Inspectors talking wouldn't it?

Well it is next door to the Isaac Newton Institute so it is full of the offspring of mathematicians - probably if you ask any of the children what 2 and 2 make they would say, 'It depends.'

Shaun - I like your idea for a sign. DD does love the chip shop. They sell each other fish and chips cut out of corrugated cardboard, and empty Fruit Shoot bottles.

lol. I like this nursery. It's like something out of the eighteenth century.

After snack time, children we're going to be doing Optics.

LOL 100x. Yes, all they need to do now is dress them up in pantaloons and mob caps and it will be perfect.

How about "Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child"? That would really give Ofsted something to ponder .

Oh no. I think it's only Dostoevsky and Newton in this nursery, and possibly Goethe in the baby room.

The chip shop sounds lovely. I want to play in it.
I think that the nursery ds1 went to in Oxford years ago was a Kids Unlimited one. Didn't have anything crazily intellectual on the wall in those days.
Half the kids could play violin to international standards and speak 10 languages tho, cos was a university nursery, so I expect thestaff felt under pressure to be uber-intellectual too.

Ah my friend in Oxford reports that the KidsUnlimited one there has the quotes too. This is Cambridge.
Our chipshop nursery is a campus one, but at a northern university, not Oxbridge.

yup - ds is in Kids Unlimited in north oxford - haven't read all the quotes, but there's one - "flowers are a language even a baby can understand"..there's others, but i always find myself distracted by the pan-pipes version of the braveheart soundtrack coming through the walls.
funnily enough, we're moving north this year - can't wait to see if there's a big difference.
chip shops and pies, eh/
i'm winding DP up that DS will be joining the uppermill brass band asap.
ey oop, mah luv!
Having said that, though, DS loves his nursery, and i will be very sad indeed to be taking him out.

sounds like Kisunlimited is the same all round the country - is that a good thing? For the children I mean, not kidsunlimited!

i worked in a ku up north and they were on the walls there too. funny how you don't notice them anymore when you're carrying the bin bags full of poo to the bins!