The Shape of Crepes to Come

[hattymattie]

Here we are crepeys - Friday 13th!

Good post MrsS!

I am back home to 4 teens/DH watching the footy

Evening all.
Stropps it seems a good progression in that it makes perfect sense, particularly when I see your experience written down like that.
Mrs S is spot in with justifications for going forth. Once you're over the brow of the hill and take that final step , you will relax into it .

I have read one chapter of 50 shades( encouraged by a younger colleague) and thought it tame dull and a dire waste of paper. The charity shops here are too Protestant to sell EL. James but I could pave a route to New York with copies of Angela's Ashes and the Da Vinci Code.
Has anyone read Purple Hibiscus? I am besotted with it. Recommend .

We are celebrating- have the prosecco out- dd is FINISHED!! French was the last paper this morning. I could cry with joy.
Now onto The Big Clearout which segways into Boot Sale Fundraising Season to raise funds for the African project.

Sorry I haven't read all recent posts but will try and do so pronto.does anybody tweet.? FB doesn't do it for me I'm afraid . Plus my time is diminished enough by the lure of the interweb

I keep reading that as SDLP- our local Social Democratic and Labour Party - confoosed as usual . These teachers they speak in tongues

Cremo, have one for me - I feel your joy!

SpLD is Specific Learning Difficulties - like dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia which may be linked with each other and/or with ADHD, ADD, and sometimes Aspergers.

Stropps, do it.

Agree with MI and MrsS Stropps..

Agree with all, Stropps. Go for it. V good idea.

Congrats, Crem. and fingers crossed for everyone else's remaining exams.

Sorry not to have posted much recently. Coming to terms with balancing joy of some financial stability with reality of life in office as wage slave at bottom of heap.

Auriga - hope all goes well at St Martin' tomorrow. wish I were able to be there.

And also Beachy - wish I could make it to the beachy bash, am sure will be vv good fun. Am instead meeting DD to help bring her stuff back - end of first year, good heavens. where did that go?

Late to the party but I too would say yes, Stropps - do it. My only experience with TAs is as a parent of child(ten) with additional needs, but good TAs are worth their weight in gold!

That's child(ren) not child(ten). I don't have ten children. Imagine how crap I'd be if I did.

Gosh Addle that went by in a flash.
But also very glad dd. has loved S-f
I hope it is lovely having her back for a couple of months.
My Dd has had a few wines too many and gone to bed , for the first time ever, without saying "night, night"
Tis the end of an era, and beginning of another . Sorry am a bit wine wibbly. Dh feeling it too ; he has hugged me gratuitously three(3 III) times since 7pm.

Cv just caught up and am laughing a lot at the WW 2 map and you directing the family from HQ. tally ho

Beachy- have a wonderful weekend. May it be as camp as a row of tents.
Sorry not to be there.

Stropps bin-jumping can be the official crepey sport. I will not go into my spectacular tantrum that involved a violent over arm throw of her mobile telephone into our sceptic tank. Oh no.

Another late one to the party, MrsS, go for it.

Retired to bed absolutely shattered. Washing machine ordered this morning and it will be delivered on Monday. When we got off the bus on our way home we spent 10 minutes directing a young Dutch man who was backpacking. He had a German map of the area (small scale) which for some reason showed a hamlet of 4 houses which is so small it doesn't have a signpost, whilst omitting the village of 100 houses down the road! Goodness only knows how the poor chap will manage. I suspect the map was a throwback to WW2.

Too tired to read/post any more.

Many thanks for your encouragement, Crepeys. Looks like I should crack on and fill in that form and write a letter tomorrow afternoon, then. Dh is a bit about the whole thing, but then he would be. It will make his life somewhat less comfortable in the short-term. I have worked hard to delegate various tasks such as packed-lunch making etc to him over the last few weeks when I have been working in school and he doesn't like it much. Tough cheese, eh? I feel quite strongly that our outlook for the future will be much better if I get back into teaching.
The SENCO (that was who I spoke to) was really keen to get me to apply, so I feel as though I have a reasonable chance and I have done my utmost to talk to as many people as possible and be jolly and smiley and outgoing and make the blardy most of my contacts at school. In previous years, I have just scuttled in and out and not been brave enough. I really felt properly excited yesterday when watching the SPLD teacher at the First School doing aural discrimination exercises with a littley and I thought "Oh yes, this is totally up my street". It also helped that that person is a qualified teacher who left teaching for a long while and then got back in through being a TA.

Well, if I apply at least I've made an effort towards positive change.

Crem, hope you've enjoyed the lovely feeling of relief that comes with the conclusion of the final exam.

BTM, thanks for the explanation of SPLD for everyone. Yes, I want to work with dyslexics, essentially. :)

Go Stropps Go!
Brilliant to hear you sounding so enthusiastic about these new opportunities (if understandably anxious). It sounds a really good plan. As someone who had a complete and utter career change somewhat late in life I can thoroughly recommend it - a change of direction is very energising. Really excited for you.

MrsS how's work?
Here meeting with big cheese was semi productive. He was at the whole thing, but pointed out the only time he'd take any notice of accusations of incompetence on my part is if they came from my boss.

However, gives you a laugh crepeys, all this angst would apparently be a massive misunderstanding over the word 'teach'.

Great Stropps - you do sound enthusiastic! Go Girl! I can vouch for SpLD being a very interesting area (and having a qualification in it! - great course for pedants)
And it's about time "someone else" did a bit more at home. Plus your DC are growing up - so glad I went back full-time when DS started sec. It works out really well doing school hours, which you will be too.

Oh dear BD. It sounds like you will be gasping for a drink next Friday!

Hope your weekend goes fabulously Beachy!

Good decision Stropps. I've recently got myself off a treadmill of indecision by realising there will never come a time when it's an easy choice, it will always be difficult and conflicted and I'll have to live with some doubts. In your case it sounds as though there are lots of positives and lots of misgivings, but the positives are likely to build up and the misgivings are likely to diminish.

Rehearsal for memorial service was a poignant reunion of old singing friends.

Bit horrified to hear a friend was rescued by Sea King from a shipwreck yesterday. Relieved he's ok but his boat is lost . When work is tough I often think at least I'm not a fisherman, I could be this miserable and cold and wet on top of it (not to mention smelling of fish).

Well done for making the decision, Stropps - I am sure you won't regret it. I think BTM is quite right, and you will find that everyone steps up to the plate (not without grumbling of course).

DFr goes home today - we'll be taking her to catch the train later. I have had a lovely time but will be glad to have a break from visitors for a while.

DS rang last night to say they are putting their house on the market and would DH go and help sort it out at the weekend. I don't think I would be moving if I was within 7 weeks of giving birth, but hey ho it's their life.

I hope the camping weekend goes well, Beachy. Weather looks reasonable. It's sunny and warm here so breakfast outside again.

Stropps, that is brilliant and well done for bouncing not scuttling (I know exactly what you mean). It is great they are keen for you to apply.

Crem, glad dd has finished and I think it is a very wibbly time .

Hope the campers have a marvellous time. Last exam here next week.

I have just realised that Mr Inferior has done all the admin - pics, signatures etc - for DD2's passport but hasn't sent the forms off.

on your behalf MI...

Happy camping Beachy and Stropps!

Oh shit MI, fingers crossed!

We're not going - we have, yes, finally booked a nice looking little mill house for a week - till late August.

It's not my problem, I have decided. I mean, it will be, obviously, if poor old Dd2 can't come to France with us but I have on the other hand checked and I did send the right passport number for my India ticket (had convinced myself I hadn't) and my lovely cousin assures me it's rather easy to visit the places I want to go to. She lives
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Please now tell me to do some writing of my own...

Tedious yet busy day of working (writing about Reading), dentist (aaaaaggghhh) and making multiple cakes. Of the ten or so people who promised to make cakes for my stall at the school fair tomorrow, three have reported 'broken ovens'. CHINNY RECKON.

I was moaning about this to a friend I bumped into on the school run. Eventually, when I paused for breath I asked where she was going. "To spend the day with a friend, our age, who's got two weeks to live." Great big blow of perspective, right in the chops.

Oh, Herbs. How terrible.

this is where my Indian cousin lives. She divorced her (v nice but a bit boring) husband - they still get on splendidly - and is now living with a German bloke who is eight (8, viii) years younger than her. She's v lovely. Broke with family tradition of becoming a doctor and trained as a dancer.