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[Cismyfatarse]

As requested.

Happy to help with home es queries about English up to AH level.

@Dollybagwash no problem! I shouldn't have laughed anyway. People are entitled to trust who they like! 😳

A carer for my friend’s disabled husband told my friend she’s had her letter for the jag but she’s not going to have it, she’s going to ‘wait and see.’

Tbh I think schools were a problem when they were open BUT not in terms of students being in class. It was every lunchtime, the streets were so full of pupils from the high school up the road that you had to walk on the road. Every shop and takeaway had massive queues of them standing about 1cm apart. I don’t know why they couldn’t have said don’t go off campus at lunchtime. I walked past Subway one day, which had a sign up saying 3 person limit but it was rammed full of secondary school kids.

@kurtrussellsbeard. Yes clarity is paramount.
The roll out and administration of the vaccines is more achievable and in their control than policing or curtailing people’s behaviour (I still believe we wouldn’t be in this lockdown if more folk had ahered to the guidance at work and leisure).

I noticed forth valley royal vaccine centre was running on Thursday when I was at the hospital . A few people I know are social carers and have to make appointments so hopefully vaccine is going to the right people.

When I say noticed there was signage 😄

@AgentCooper

A carer for my friend’s disabled husband told my friend she’s had her letter for the jag but she’s not going to have it, she’s going to ‘wait and see.’

Tbh I think schools were a problem when they were open BUT not in terms of students being in class. It was every lunchtime, the streets were so full of pupils from the high school up the road that you had to walk on the road. Every shop and takeaway had massive queues of them standing about 1cm apart. I don’t know why they couldn’t have said don’t go off campus at lunchtime. I walked past Subway one day, which had a sign up saying 3 person limit but it was rammed full of secondary school kids.

We couldn't tel them not to go off campus at lunchtime because a) we can't physically accommodate this within the school in such numbers b) many, many of them would not have brought lunch c) some go home for lunch. We kept S1 and 2 in.

But yes, them all flooding into the local areas at lunchtime and cramming into chip shops was a major concern for me.

@Cismyfatarse can I ask a question about English? I realise I'm getting ahead of myself because we might get loads more work from school this time round but I like to get myself organised.

I'm looking for some book recommendations from the Nat5 curriculum that we can read at the same time and discuss a bit together. Based on last lockdown I'll struggle to get them to write an essay about a book but we could talk about them at least. Or can you point me to a list somewhere, is there such a thing?

I've got an S2 and and S3. One is a big reader, loves complex sci-fi but also the Dogman, Captain Underpants, Wimpy Kid type nonsense. The other one doesn't really read at all, although he struggled through the Hunger Games books and has now been reading Maze Runner for about 6 months (only a slight exaggeration, he's not a fast reader). I'll read absolutely anything apart from gruesome crime.

The guidance from school last time was to read something you enjoy but I'm not sure Wimpy Kid is going to cut it when it comes to actual exams. All suggestions welcome, thanks very much.

We teach Michael Morpurgo, Noughts and Crosses, Hound of the Baskervilles, Beverley Naidoo, Holes (or any by the same author whose name I've completely forgotten), Benjamin Zephaniah at S1 and 2. At N5 (S3) of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, An Inspector Calls, 1984 all good shouts. Maybe even some short stories? Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson?

Sorry runningpink that you feel so down

We are sociable human beings and it’s been nearly a year since we were able to be sociable and not gosht about like ninjas in our masks

I felt terrible yesterday. Mornings not so bad but these long long afternoons of gloom and doom

May seems so far away.

Least boris left nurseries open. We have nothing for our babies and toddlers. They have missed out so much the wee ones

I also hope we get some data about vaccines and progress

Fine for sturgeon to say she is scunnered

Try being in lockdown with kids in January

Re the election, good to hear it's going ahead. It the US managed a General Election it would be a tad embarrassing if Scotland couldn't.

Re the Ivor Cummings video, I've only seen two of them. Ok he says lockdowns don't work, they must do something but he makes good points about the overall number of deaths.
Lets be 100% honest if it was just people popping it in care homes, like the 1000s who die every year of flu, we wouldn't be having lockdowns. Its the younger people who are becoming really ill need hospital care, but make good recoveries that they are worried about.

Sorry for what's probably a stupid, unanswerable question. But if Covid 19 is like a flu, requiring an annual vaccine and the timeline for everyone to be inoculated is so long, will we be chasing our tails trying to get ahead of it every year? I mean, will scientists have to guess at the strain like they do for the flu now?

I loved Of Mice and Men. Glad to hear DD will be doing that. Hope she watches the film too - I cried in class

Are they going to do The Rats of Nimh? Loved that too.

They are thinking it's more stable than flu however if it did become like flu and mutate too quickly. Logically they'd combine with the annual flu jag and target the vulnerable.

But remember even the vulnerable have an immunity to flu as they'll have come across similar variants in the past.

I also believe that allowing limited spread in young children means they'll build a natural immunity to it.

@Iwillneverbesatisfied

I loved Of Mice and Men. Glad to hear DD will be doing that. Hope she watches the film too - I cried in class

Are they going to do The Rats of Nimh? Loved that too.

These are just suggestions. Different schools will teach different texts, depending on a number of factors (what's in the book cupboard being a not unimportant one)!

There are some Scottish set texts at N5 but I'd maybe leave them till next year.

Covid: Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland hopes to accelerate vaccine rollout www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55545087

Latest info on vaccine rollout.

@Neeko thanks for link. That sounds promising.

@icanboogieboogiewoogie I have never read Of Mice and Men. I think we'll all read that. I know it might not be what's on their school's list but it's just to keep them going along the lines of reading different things and thinking about what they are reading, do you know what I mean?

Oh I did of mice and men for my Ograde (ancient) in 1985 or 6 I'm that old I can't mind when I left school

Neeko thanks for posting.

That article fair cheered up my morning. Clearly shows what an absolutely stellar politician Nicola is.

To summarise:

1. yesterday 2pm all doom and gloom and May at earliest
2. wait for Boris to make himself hostage to fortune by suggesting mid Feb
3. next day row back on May prediction by saying if Boris gives her enough vaccine she can get it done faster

All upside for her now if she does better than May and downside for Boris if it slips at all from February. Sometimes you just have to sit back and admire the politics.

My bet is still on May elections going ahead because SNP will be teeing up to reap the benefits of having done their best in a crisis and the longer they leave it the more time for post match analysis recriminations.

Have used the new Police Scotland Corona virus report form to shop NDNs. Getting DIY done at a time like this, no masks being worn, and one of the guys is staying overnight at the property. It's giving me the absolute rage.

Hopefully they will get over to property as it's all in full swing just now.

Would highly recommend John Steinbeck more generally than Mice and Men.

Travels with Charley is very readable for below Nat 5 level (I think anyway). Very topical atm as it is a roadtrip around America and seeking to think about the American psche.

I read The Pearl in S2/3 and it stayed with me. Again short and accessible and topical if a bit dark.

For poetry I reckon Edwin Morgan is hard to beat.

DIY is allowed surely?
Or do you mean they have workmen coming in?

blowinahoolie what exactly are you hoping to achieve by taking out your frustrations on your neighbours?