The Thirty-Fifth Republic - Covid - the gift that keeps on giving even during the Christmas Break

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

Weve got HP clocktower to do.
Dd2 has a Trolls.
Dp does help too much.
I never had any kits as a child. So im not good in 3d.

I LOVE that film!

Sounds like a film I'd enjoy.

I used to make "coloniser transportation" ships with our space Lego (with every conceivable mod con for zero gravity) while my brother made fighter ships to protect the fleet!

I do actually have a set upstairs for my goddaughter's birthday - but I think it might be a disappointment! I want a big scary set!

Although a rather Aussie reference, I was in Bunnings (think B&Q) today and they were selling "lego" Bunnings boxes - construct your own DIY hangar.

Now I think of it, I imagine they're piggy-backing on the fame of "Bluey", where the family sometimes go to the Hammer Barn, which is Bunnings in disguise. Appropriately the family I saw whose children were entranced by the building kit were bought a single box they had to share.

Very "Bluey".

What Gav is up to...

Next year, world's strongest man. Bleurgh.

Hello all, meet Xmas and I hope you're all suitable rotund.

So sorry to read about your friend's baby and the floods .piggy. That's just awful. I hope she's ok and finding support.

Ahhh Lego. We swim in Lego. I've had to work out a full time Lego management system. And we are rearranging half the house to accommodate it so I can get a puppy Ds1 got into it a bit too young but is alllllll he wants.

We had our first tears last night as Dh grappled with a ninjago boat that's full of working cogs and basically a small machine. He had almost broken it to get something else attached. It's the first one ds1 hasn't been able to do himself for a long time and he's desperate to get it done. 4 packs to go I think.

(Tears were ds but Dh was close)

Ds2, the master destroyer, is eyeing it. It's going to be a NY challenge to keep him away from it and stop Ds1 from having a meltdown.

I loved Lego, mum still has all out stuff and also a lot of the boxes as well as instructions!

I particularly LOVE how the space man in Lego movie two has a broken helmet.

What does that Torygraph headline say? The only word I can read is Williamson.

We are all about the Lego here too. It all seems to have got a bit out of hand this Christmas and DS now has the entire current HP Lego collection (bar Diagon Alley which is just too £££).

We’ve got the clock tower and astronomy tower still to build, finished the burrow yesterday and today’s job is the Hogwarts Express apparently. I am allowed to (indeed, must) find all the pieces but am never allowed to actually place any on the model. Still, it’s rather soothing.

@Piggyinblankets something like ‘warns of massive battle to avert school lockdown in new year’

[quote HailFairy]@Piggyinblankets something like ‘warns of massive battle to avert school lockdown in new year’[/quote]
Battle to avert school lockdown? Is the narrative going to be all about the evil unions damaging kids again?

Thank you!

Yes, I assume the evil Geoff Barton will prevent Price Charming from heroically keeping schools open.

If you magic eye it and zoom in you can just about read it.

Crunch meeting tomorrow it says.

Gav is trying to keep them open. Bloody hell. Why are the making him out as a hero and anything other than incompetent!

Oh thanks Riga. Seems to only be about secondaries as well.

I like the way the DT has polarised this by calling people lockdowners. What does that make Gavin? A freedom fighter or an arsehole? You choose.

Lockdowners = scientists.

I don't know what magic eye it means?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/gavin-williamson-warns-enormous-battle-23225088

@Piggyinblankets

I don't know what magic eye it means?

Move your pupils in and out like looking at a magic eye picture to try and read the blur.🙈

those unreasonable lockdowners, just wanting to be careful until the imminent approval and rollout of vaccines. What are they like, the scientific worry-warts?

I imagine Gavin wandering the DfE telling anyone who will listen about his 'huge battle' and how great he is. More than any other MP ,apart from the PM perhaps, I can imagine what he was like at school and university. Tedious and undeservedly arrogant.

piggy He sounds much like our executive HT.

"behaviour is excellent" is a line he frequently trots out. Much to the bewilderment of the actual teachers!

Lockdowners ffs. How infantile and crass in the face of the numbers of deaths and hospital admissions.

I can't predict what will happen. Sanity would say at least a fortnights delay to see where figures are going and to have a bit of a fire break but they've ignored sane thinking before so?? Who knows.

I just slept for 12 hours

ST reporting teachers to be added to priority vaccine list.

There is a calculator online to work out when you might otherwise get vaccinated. CV DH would be March - May. I'm basically never...