Drowning in a sea full of tiers

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Next thread. DD's birthday so can someone link.

And propping it up at a weird angle I have one charger like this too! (& no cat to blame the bare wires on)

Michelle Ballantyne would appear to be appealing to people, at minimum pissed off with restrictions and some Covid deniers, to get votes so she can continue to be a list MSP. In a recent Facebook post, she said people should be allowed to make their own risk assessments. No useful suggestions as to what the UK and Scottish governments should be doing. Which I find concerning as she used to be an ICU nurse and worked in health care management.

@Perihelion I like that she’s trying to hold them to account and to justify measures. Government should be held to account and questioned

And her experience has probably given her some perspective, unlike those in the ivory towers

Can also recommend Scholastic for home learning resources - some are paid for but lots of free stuff. Www.scholastic.co.UK
Would also suggest looking at the website of your local library authority - usually links to free online resources there.

Another vote for orchard games rather than twinkl worksheets. We have the times tables one and a great one called rhyme robbers. Have had lots over the years

My kids used to love the pop to the shops orchard game... takes me back

Aww my guys liked the orchard toys Red Dog Blue Dog bingo game. We probably still have it somewhere, maybe I'll make them play a game when tempers are frayed this coming week

@MamaTookMyEyebrows I can pm you some times table games if that would help?

No helpful suggestions for telling the time though I’m afraid

B&M has a learn to tell the time clock. Dd bought a few as resources 🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm all set for work. Been nice having a lazy morning as I can leave 45 minutes later. Dd and dh will be leaving soon so breakfast in peace.

Both of mine loved red dog, blue dog too, great game.

Good luck - mine are bouncy this morning!

Good luck today everyone

Have a good day all teachers and home-schooling parents. And everyone else who is slightly dreading another Monday

Trying to replicate my typical day and showering, face on and dressed before coming down and having breakfast. Would normally answer a few emails at this point so logging on for that.

And so it begins again ....

DD in a foul mood this morning. Promised me she'd set an alarm. 5 to 9 and still not stirred so I had to go in to get her up. Cue a mouthful from her for waking her up - non sweary though. She knows better .

Apparently she has 4 Google Meets today which sounds better than last time so hope it lasts and doesn't tailor off.

I am banned from going upstairs or into her room or even for a pee in case I disturb embarrass her.

9.39 and I'm stressing already.
Computer decided to do up-dates. Back to using tablet.

LO viving for attention. He's now watching telly.

An hour into home schooling and Microsoft Teams has stopped working.

And Edinburgh's Microsoft connection has decided not to work, so we can't access teams/ one note where all the class work is. DHs colleagues are panic-texting the same... Who'd have thought that several thousand people trying to access the same thing on the same day would scupper plans. Luckily we'd cached it, so can revert to printouts.

Yep, Edinburgh....

Well I've just had a work email to say teams is down which I'm not entirely unhappy about!

Appreciate that this is a major pita for school kids though

We've spent the first hour and a bit listening to IT problems - was inevitable really.

Ds is manfully going through his google classroom assignments...

I think Teams had been patchy everywhere. All this enhanced, intense online engagement has crashed the internet.

Its google meets here and I can hear DD chatting away so seemingly no connection issues and I'm not working (redundant) so not an issue for me although I do have a Teams interview tomorrow.