The Forty Seventh Republic! Happy Valentines and get some half term rest

[Staffdontblowitnow]

You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff only – a sort of room of requirement. Baiters, haters, goaders, and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

You can play here if you are a member of one the following groups-

-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
-SWAB - school workers against bashers
-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
-STARS - schoolworkers together against ranting + slurs

Do not give the staffroom password just in case it attracts the wrong sort

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

I'm literally about to google what to do with cucumber seeds.
Bin them. Nasty indigestion-inducing green buggers. I don't know what's in them but they give me terrible tummy ache.

No to cucumbers, they give me tummy-ache from the person who said yes to shrimp paste and green mango pickle.

I'm off to have a wee look at what UFT is saying about the news in Scotland... if I'm not back soon come and rescue me

@SmileEachDay

Ah go on noble

Your username makes out you're all like 😃 but actually you're really 😈

@noblegiraffe

No to cucumbers, they give me tummy-ache from the person who said yes to shrimp paste and green mango pickle.

🤣 I'm allergic to melon. It must be the pointless water content.

Annual wildflower seeds go in march/April. Weed the ground, work it with take and sprinkle seed on but you'll need to possibly net it to keep birds off until they seeds are going.

I am very slow on seed starting this year but Tbh my garden is probably a bit full anyway. And I bought more perennials from Sarah Raven so I'm hanging on for summer basket season now.

My house is a tip but I'm not really caring. Off to watches starling murmuration at 5 ISH then pancakes!

Ooh thanks Guy

• I want to do them on my front scruffy patch which currently has very deteriorated weed blocking membrane (technical term) and poor quality soil. There are lots of buttercups and periwinkle already....If I sprinkle seeds and then thin layer of soil will that work?

Your username makes out you're all like 😃 but actually you're really 😈

I think Y10 would agree.

@noblegiraffe

I am going to tidy the house. The house needs tidying. Tidy house.

If you see a thread from me before tomorrow I am in BIG TROUBLE.

Do we need a signal when you start a thread? Not a bat signal obviously - but a giraffe signal?

Apparently there's a daffodil klaxon so no need for giraffe signals

@SmileEachDay should do. The birds are your worst enemy. Web of string with old CDs/DVD hanging on string nearby often puts them off. Netting they can get caught in, it's not ideal.

I'm currently writing emails to the power network. I live next to a tiny electricity box thing. The land in front is left to weeds and on the past they strimmer it but last year just dumped weedkiller. It's now bare earth. Under the soil is concrete.

I'm hoping they let me adopt it and wildflower it over, and obviously they'll still have access. Am going to ask the parish council for a grant(?) For some wildflower turf to go down.

I might try some seeds as it's bare mud at the moment but the weeds are sprouting. If I keep on top of them for a few weeks....who knows?!

Ah yes, of course Evil

contemplates a Chris Hemsworth signal

Hi folks

Can we please be careful not to discuss other posters/threads? It derails this one and is unlikely to end well. Thanks!

What happened there, then?!

Does HQ read through all our threads or are there others on here reading all our threads about Chris Hemsworth and chairs just to see if another thread is mentioned?

It's all kicking off on the residents's Facebook group here smile because the council have announced they're not going to mow the verges this year. They've apparently sowed wild flowers. I've got a wild flower patch in the garden but the whole planting is to attract birds and bees. I love it when they're all buzzing round and I'm hammocking with a gin

I think Lily wanted to see Chris and boot boy...

People like to report us over here

I haven't ventured out from the staffroom today. Seems like a wise decision.

Lily messaged received and understood, but if you ban discussion of Chris Hemsworth, I will have to cancel

LOL at derailing this thread though.

Do we need thread objectives?

Sounds like it, MrsH

I mean it’s important not to derail the discussion if Chris Hemsworth.

@MrsHamlet

Do we need thread objectives?

WALT: understand when we can and cannot derail a thread according to MN

What A Goady One Looks Like.

I just had a lovely Nan Nap after plucking my eyebrows and reading on my bed. It was like being a teenager again.

Just maintaining the integrity of the thread....

Sorry if it was me, I know I've mentioned other threads a few times. But no specific posters, we've all been very careful I thought. Do you think we should ask lily/MNHQ what they meant??