The broom cupboard 2 - just for when we get briefly stranded without a staffroom

[TheHoneyBadger]

I'll pop a link in the old one so you know where to find safe haven. I have tried to clear out some space by getting rid of the ohp and vcr trolley and gin is hidden behind the sick sand bucket.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4234712-The-Fifty-Seventh-Republic-the-joy-of-bank-holiday-marking?watched=1&msgid=107015821#107015821

So busy marking I haven’t had time to do much else other than watch Line of Duty. I have a boot camp to go to later 😁

Just giving the place an airing, ensuring we still have CHAIRS, and chocolate biscuits.....

Oh we have five whole pages left so should be ok. The 57th has lasted a whole 3 weeks! We must be too knackered to post.

Ch-chairs? Are you sure? Is that... wise? Who knows what nefarious practices we will perform if given sufficient furniture...

It's been a while since we were in here but I'm sure there are some mini eggs stashed in a tin.

I might fire up the big tea urn. It takes 3 hours to get hot....

piggy, don’t know if you (or anyone) has seen the post about the surge areas guidance on Data - it advises against non essential travel out of area - and the fovt releases it on Fridays but didn’t even tell the councils until today!!

So now school leaders know: the next changes to Schools guidance will be pinned up in a top floor corridor in the DfE and teachers are only going to find out about it if someone visits. Which they won’t. Cos, Covid, innit? (Pace, Bob)

*released it on Friday

Apparently sequenced cases of the IV have trebled in the last week 😢

the next changes to Schools guidance will be pinned up in a top floor corridor in the DfE

“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

I think you're funnier in the broom closet Noble. Must be the fumes from industrial cleaning products.

Turn the tea urn off. New republic ready.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4253849-The-Fifty-Ninth-Republic-May-Half-Term-beckons?watched=1&msgid=107647867#107647867

All notices are pinned underneath a dusty corner desk in a very very tiny triple-locked high-security office in the top floor corridor in the DfE. Not even Gav The Muppet knows of its existence.

@TheHoneyBadger

Turn the tea urn off. New republic ready.

lol

I've flicked the duster round and popped the urn on. And stocked up the ice for the gin/pimms...

I’ll bring my stock of dried apricots for piggy, noble and all other anaemics. I’ve eaten since second pregnancy when my iron levels got a bit low!

I’m sure it’s not good for the tea urn to be turned off and on and never used in such an unfeeling manner. It may well spring a leak or worse still blow up.

Nothing helpful to share, I'm afraid. Foolishly decided to pop into school first thing to do one or two bits and then failed to emerge for nearly six hours. Whoever it was that said, way up thread, that teachers would end up planning, resourcing and assessing work for 'intervention tutors' was spot on.

There is iron deficiency anaemia , common in women worrying in men. First sign that DH was seriously ill years ago was anaemia. Also pernicious anaemia ( nasty)and folate anaemia due to lack of folic acid. I have one and three. Three almost certainly because I only eat bread and ice and never eat meat.

Apricots upset my stomach but I do like them.

We can always hide from the angry hordes in here. If we shift all the unmarked marking in front of the door, they'll never find us.

Or a notice on the door No Entry Critically Unstable Tea Urn

Toddler and I went to Bristol Zoo today with my sister and nephew. Lovely day, but I'm so knackered now!

I only eat bread and ice

One of your famous typos surely?

Oh I've got the mundane iron one then, I thought anaemia was always iron. They don't know why, I'm a bit worried that they're going to tell me to drink less tea. I read that it affects iron absorption and my blood is probably about 95% tea.

Iirc as long as you don’t drink tea within half an hour of iron intake it doesn’t affect absorption?

Oooh, hobnobs I used to go there with granny and grandad. My favourites were apparently the okapi.