The Thirty-Fourth Republic - Time to recharge our batteries and make the best of our festive break

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Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation.

If you come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

They can’t continue to use these tests now that news is out, can they?!

How can they say they are useful?

So we will get kids together in halls for a period of time so the government can use up a load of test kits that don’t work. DfE employees are getting £1k bonus payments to provide guidance on how to how to do this.

Just rubbish

It's beyond rubbish, isn't it? Not just gathering kids in halls but also putting them on buses, trains and tubes with the general public and kids from other schools or bubbles within their own. Not gonna exponential transmission at all, is it?

This is the problem. I have a lot of cheese for one person. Gin and cheese isn't quite as good. Sigh.

Cheese and Wine though? Thanks to my sisters I now have another 6 blocks of cheese in my fridge and a bottle of port.

Noel, absolutely wouldn't put it past the government to try and palm dodgy tests off onto schools.

And woohoo to all of our Scottish colleagues, who have finally finished for Christmas!

I didn't know about the originally proposed mass testing centres using LFTs! I know they were /are?? saying to use them for care home visitors, then some LAs stopped that because of concerns about accuracy.

PORT! Hmm mm.

Maybe after the testing road trip and the summer party on the hill we could hold a more formal affair where we could all buy the longed for swishy frocks (or not, @CountDuckulasCranberrySauce - hope have got right poster there?) and drink port and eat good cheese.... 🧀 🍷 💃

Don't forget our trip to the holiday home somewhere hot which I can't now recall
The fridge stinks. It's in the garage but I'm sure I can smell the cheese in the house 🤣

MNHQ needs urgently to clamp down on the corona denying threads! Rife on the board! So much statistical and scientific bollocks.

Yes star, a long swishy frock would be my worst nightmare. Apart from anything else I would definitely trip over it and end up faceplanted in the formally elegant centerpiece. Think I could manage a tuxedo though

I am so conflicted about DS and this testing.

I don't know whether I should contact his school asking them if they are unaware of the massive question marks over this test?

I am NOT happy about DS being sent back to a school where students are no longer SI off the back of these shit 'only fit for the 3rd world ' tests.

Plus they have said he will need to go for two appointments in the first week back to be tested. Not sure how that will work if I am at work!

I didn't even wear a long squishy dress for my own wedding. Can I wear a short dress instead? With comfy shoes.

The accuracy of the LFT is appalling isn't it? I can believe that the government would force them into schools just to use them up though, it's a typically despicable thing to do.

I don't know whether I should contact his school asking them if they are unaware of the massive question marks over this test?

I absolutely would.

I am a bit stunned actually. When I saw the news this afternoon saying the government are halting plans to use these tests in the community because of their unreliability, I’m horrified that hasn’t translated to mean they won’t be used in schools EITHER

Oh bollocks. Results came back and I'm positive.

Very quick result though. Only did the test yesterday!!

I have cheese, wine, chutneys and Netflix to ride out this wave....

Oh arse, luckiest

Ah crap Luckiest, I hope you're better soon and it's not too bad a ride for you.
Sending many get well soon vibes xx

@TheLuckiest

Oh bollocks. Results came back and I'm positive.

Very quick result though. Only did the test yesterday!!

I have cheese, wine, chutneys and Netflix to ride out this wave....

Crap news, Luckiest. I hope you feel better soon .

We really need a cheese emoticon 🧀, hopefully that will show. With .

Like yr style @CountDuckulasCranberrySauce!

Oh am sorry to hear that @TheLuckiest . Take care.

R4 this evening reporting in terms of LFTs questionable to be used anywhere including schools. Said all 4 nations' plans for schools "currently in a holding pattern".

@Piggyinblankets I'd wait a few days and see what transpires.

@TheLuckiest

Oh bollocks. Results came back and I'm positive.

Very quick result though. Only did the test yesterday!!

I have cheese, wine, chutneys and Netflix to ride out this wave....

Oh no-that’s rubbish :(

Hope you feel better soon.-take care.

@TheLuckiest

Oh bollocks. Results came back and I'm positive.

Very quick result though. Only did the test yesterday!!

I have cheese, wine, chutneys and Netflix to ride out this wave....

Oh no - hope you get better soon! I did my test yesterday but no result yet. Fingers crossed for a negative!

Oh bugger luckiest. I hope you don't feel too ill with it.

I've got a sore throat and a headache, and have just had a bit of a coughing fit. I don't know if the coughing is going to persist, but I'm thinking it might be worth booking a test for tomorrow.

Oh no luckiest hope it’s just a mild case and you get to enjoy Christmas in some way

Poor you luckiest hopefully you ride it out!

@TheLuckiest that's properly rubbish

Hope you feel better soon!

I notice the DofE seems to have switched from "school is safe" to "online learning is great" propaganda

@TheLuckiest hope you feel better soon xx

@hedgehogger1

I notice the DofE seems to have switched from "school is safe" to "online learning is great" propaganda

Post it please?