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Where the dickens has it gone? Is it gone gone? Has it been renamed and I just can't find it?

Sunshineneeded1 I'm really sorry to hear about your dad, what timing. You are both in my thoughts.

Thankfully, this area of Bedfordshire will soon be going into what is laughingly referred to as "tier 5" and hopefully the whole country before the end of January.

I'm still laughing at this idea of people saying "good riddance" to 2020 when 2021 will be ten times worse.

I remember being at a party in the mid seventies and this joke of a businessman who had scammed and cheated his way until he was caught and bankrupted said at midnight "good riddance to 1974" not recognising that albeit a new year was coming in, no temporal change was going to radically change his psychology.

That man is my metaphor for the planet at present.

A good motto for 2021 would be "it's not the virus, it's the people" and, while the people carry on in their selfish ignorant ways we will never get out of this pandemic. They seem to have a death wish.

As Chris used to sing "fool if you think it's over, it's just begun".

I'm still laughing at this idea of people saying "good riddance" to 2020 when 2021 will be ten times worse.

My god, you're a miserable git, Jude.

@SalVolatilly

I'm still laughing at this idea of people saying "good riddance" to 2020 when 2021 will be ten times worse.

My god, you're a miserable git, Jude.

He's a one man four horsemen of the apocalypse. Happy New Year, Jude x

Well, Jude, I just love to hear your take on things even if I don’t entirely see it that way. Having said that I was relieved to retire to bed with a herbal tea. Most sparkling wines do not agree with me anymore!! Funny how your tastes change with age.

Can’t say I’m looking forward to January/Feb. It will be spring before I feel optimistic. I suffer dreadfully from SAD and post Xmas is the pits. Hope starts when I see snow drops. If I could hibernate I would.

Wishing everyone well however, they are seeing in 2021.

@little1412c

I’m here NAB.......Belle. Please let me m is if you set up a new forum.

Hi Belle, pleased you found us and yes I will do.

Happy New Year all, here's to a better one!

NAB

I'm just being realistic. It's no good being unprepared for a shock is it?

My sincere hope is for a better future from this very second. If everyone could do as I do, that better future would start from now but, sadly a great many people can't do as I do, either for family reasons or through a lack of insight into the actual circumstances of our present fate.

I can honestly say I have followed all the government advice, rules and legislation to the letter. I have stayed indoors for weeks on end and always maintained social distance. This has very often involved having to move away from people and constantly reminding them about the danger of COVID-19.

I'm not even saying the government has been right on its advice, rules and legislation but, I have adhered to those directives and know I have done all possible to halt the virus and keep others safe. I'm pretty certain I have in no way spread the virus and, at times actually helped stop the spread by others.

I knew what we had to do in March 2020 and we still haven't done it. We will do it eventually but, only after countless deaths, so I make no apology for my position on this.

We need absolute truthfulness and openness about our behaviour. I have zero faith in the species ability to stop the spread of the virus. I've lost about £20,000 in earnings which, I must admit has been replaced by government grants and benefits but, I'd have rather earned that £20,000 if others could behave themselves as I have done.

So, I'm the good guy. I'm the person doing the correct thing. I'm the one who recognises what needs to be done. It needs strong medicine. Nothing else will change the situation.

If anything, today is a day to question ourselves again: "have I done all I can possibly do to fight this virus?" and to start over and totally adhere to the rules despite what others do.

Be a good socialist. Care about your neighbour by protecting them through staying safe and not spreading the virus.

I have to agree with you Jude in the respect that while my family and I are doing everything possible to adhere to the guidelines I see/know of so many people who are not. Constant mixing, no masks, no social distancing. If everyone adhered correctly the rates of infection would go done, a virus thrives on people pretending it’s not there.

Jude, I don't always agree with you, but in this case I totally do. I've done everything possible to stick to the guidelines since the beginning of all this. I must admit, I'd stopped being 'scared' of it and had become complacent, thinking it had been around for so long and my 'following the rules' was protecting me. That was until I caught it in early December. Another member of staff in my bubble developed symptoms on the same day as me ... we're in UKS2, where it's fine to have 30 children and three or four adults together in one room, no masks, all day! And we have to go back next week.

Happy New Year, Jude!

Happy New Year, Tessers. Lang may yer lum reek wi someone else's coal!

(Yes Jude, I know 2021 is only a number and things won't magically improve, but this morning I'm feeling optimistic, as I alwayd do on the 1st of January)

Now - the next thing to look forward to is Trump being bounced out of the White House...
Countdown begins:
20...

Trump going is definitely a positive change. Can’t say I feel quite so happy about post Brexit. The deal is better than none but our lives would be so much better if we stayed. In a few years time people will realise this once they get back to being able to move around. Had to smile at Stanley Johnson applying for French citizenship!.

Jude, you are right. Had people followed the rules things would have been so much better but those rules haven’t helped the education setting at all and it’s absolutely clear that schools drove transmission. For those of us forced to work in that setting next week, against our own judgement on what is safe, it is truly unnerving. It will soon be realised what a error it has been as bubbles close down but that will have been preventable and folks will needlessly become sick.

@Malbecfan

I used to use TES under a different but related username. Workplace Dilemmas was so helpful; I can't remember the name of the lovely lady who retrained as a lawyer and gave such amazing advice, then was diagnosed with something like leukaemia. I do remember Lilyofthefields too.

The subject forum was really helpful. As a music teacher, in a 1.5 person department, you could ask for suggestions there. A couple of posters were bloody irritating but one, Florian Gasman was extremely knowledgeable, especially on niche A level topics, UCAS or conservatoire applications. My HoD and I used to wonder where this particular poster came from or worked.

Now, I use the Facebook forums. The Music ones are pretty helpful, especially the exam board ones for KS4 and KS5 as the subject officer is a regular contributor. At all key stages, posters willingly share resources or signpost things they have found, which during lockdown, saved hours of work. A couple of my old uni friends are on there too, some 30+ years after graduating.

I don't post much here but I do read. Unlike some parts of MN, I have found the staffroom to be friendly and supportive. So on that note, I hope you all have a safe end to the year and wish everyone the very best for 2021!

Thanks. Reports of the demise of the Gassmann are greatly exaggerated. I was sorry to see the TES forums go, if only because I wasn't able to confirm Cariadwich's point that, despite disliking Brexit, I was indeed one of the few who said that "No Deal" would never happen.

Part of the TES's problem was their failed system of moderation. It was too open to users ganging up to get people silenced - even barred, as in the case of poor old Frank Woolley (although he did bring it on himself, to some extent). Putting someone (Ed?) on moderation for three years was simply ridiculous. I myslef was put on pre-moderation for 6+ months (and probably still am) for posting the URL of a website to indicate that what I wrote was fact and not merely opinion. One of the far-eastern weekend mods with limited comprehension of English ruled that this was advertising and thus a breach of T&Cs. A post to this effect was deleted by the mods without comment, presumably on the basis that any criticism of a moderator, even if justified, ist streng verboten!

Good luck to those hoping to restore the TES forums. I'd like to see them back, and better run, but I don't value them so much that I would pay a subscription to use them.

Happy new year to all the names here that I recognise!

Hello!Wow,I'm so glad I've found you all.I too got here via Google after trying to log on to TES Community this morning for the first time in a long while.
I've changed my username radically (there was a rather more prolific poster on TES with a not too dissimilar name to mine so that's OK) but I do recognise many here :-)

Happy New Year to you all.

I haven't trawled through all the pages of this conversation as yet,but I will do over the course of the day.

How sad that the TES shut off the Community so abruptly.I used it as a source of information and support too,and I'll miss things like Aunty Dunty's Problem Page which was hysterical.

@Cassandramark2
So so sorry to read your news.Wishing you well❤️

[quote MrsOliphant]@Cassandramark2
So so sorry to read your news.Wishing you well❤️[/quote]
Very much this Cassandramark2.

Hi Florianus! Good to hear from you. Sally006 here with new user name as that one was taken. Happy New Year to you. I hope more will join us as time goes on. Miss TES Community even with all its faults. I suspect it won’t be back in anything like the format it was but it was dreadful they way they took it down without warning. As you say, not a well managed site.

Hi Sally006, and a happy new year to you, too. Am just off to have my Coronavirus jab. Probably not getting a booster until April, but am happy to have something to keep the virus at bay.

@PriscillaChinchilla

Happy New Year, Tessers. Lang may yer lum reek wi someone else's coal!

(Yes Jude, I know 2021 is only a number and things won't magically improve, but this morning I'm feeling optimistic, as I alwayd do on the 1st of January)

Now - the next thing to look forward to is Trump being bounced out of the White House...
Countdown begins:
20...

'Countdown begins: 20...'

You're not frodo_magic in disguise, are you?
Aaargh!!!!!

Oh - of course not. You're not 'excited'!!!

@Florianus
Good to 'see' you here.
Slowly, one-by-one, the clans are gathering.
Chelsea2

Exploring the new Tes Global - re registering in fact. This is the welcome message;
"Thanks for joining!
You're now part of a global community of 8 million educators who share knowledge, advice and best practice."
So we must assume Tes will return some day...

@Cassandramark2 ((())) So sorry to hear your news. I really hope things go ok with your treatments and that things look up for you as we go through 2021.

Happy new year!
Glad to have found you but this is just not the same.
Talk of FaceBook is depressing - I've successfully avoided that in the past. But is there is a particular FB group people are migrating towards, could someone name it? I would hate to lose contact with @diddydave 's helpful retirement posts in particular.
Take care everyone.

@sunshineneeded1

Cassandramark2, so sorry to hear your news. You've had such an awful year. Wishing you a speedy recovery ((( ))).

I had amazing support from Tessers (especially lara) when my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and through the very difficult times before he eventually went into a nursing home a year ago. It's a lovely home and they've been brilliant this year. Last week we were told that a member of staff had tested positive for COVID - the first they'd had. She was asymptomatic and isolated immediately. All staff and residents were tested on Monday, as usual. 50% are positive, including my dad. So worried. I haven't seen Dad for a month as OH and I are both recovering from the virus. It feels like I'm living in some sort of parallel universe at the moment ... they were all due to be vaccinated next week in the home.

That’s awful news @sunshineneeded1 hope your dad is doing ok. 50% of the residents & staff testing positive! It must have been terrifying for them as the results came through.

@DorsetDreams1

Happy new year! Glad to have found you but this is just not the same. Talk of FaceBook is depressing - I've successfully avoided that in the past. But is there is a particular FB group people are migrating towards, could someone name it? I would hate to lose contact with *@diddydave* 's helpful retirement posts in particular. Take care everyone.

I’m the same. I find Facebook much too intrusive.

Does anyone know why the quote function isn’t available to choose for some posters on here.