The Fifty-Sixth Republic - Who is up for a game of TAG?

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I’d love to go to Dollywood - especially now! Feels like I’ve got a patch of sunburn on the top of my arm and I’m shattered, but it’s Friday and my day off so I think tiredness is more likely that than vaccine.

Thanks staff

Checking in!

Good news about your vaccine @CarrieBlue I don't know anyone else who has had moderna yet.

Back to school on Monday for me - starting to feel quite anxious about it which is unusual for me. Trying to make sure I get enough info into my Y11s and Y13s before their final papers. Not exactly looking forward to all the marking either.

Also have appraisal mid way reviews coming up so need to collate all of my evidence in one place.

Let's add Dollywood to our road trip. We can go walking into the Great Smoky Mountains and stay in Pigeon Forge.

I'm supposed to meet my dad and aunt for a walk today. I think it's going to be a walk to a cafe!

Thanks Staff!

Great news on the jabs Carrie and echt
Hopefully get mine soon.

So you can walk then Mrs H? Good. What’s Pigeon Forge?

I can hobble... my huge grazed knee and swollen ankle are on different legs so it's quite amusing.
Pigeon Forge is the Vegas of Tennessee. It's gaudy to say the least.

Reserving spot

We're certainly getting around on our road trip, aren't we? I wholeheartedly approve of adding Dollywood to the itinerary, and Pigeon Forge sounds interesting (I like gaudy, I'm a simple soul)

Isn't this the 46th, not 56th thread?

I’m not so keen on gaudy..... Think I’m still recovering from a holiday my ex dragged me on 20 years ago staying at La Playa des Americas, Tenerife. (Oh if only I’d seen the signs back then!)

Found you, I was wondering if I had killed the last thread with my CBeebies talk.

Forgot to say, love the title @StaffRepFeistyClub. This half term will be “fun”.

To be fair, I could probably cope with gaudy (and accept the cultural enrichment experience!) in the company of supportive friends... just not a manipulative boundary-pushing ba like him!

Thanks for the new thread!

Thanks for the new thread, Staff.

Signing back in with a name reversion.

Incorrect number of asterisks there.

Going “old skool” (🤮 - that phrase) Dangling?

Thank you for the new thread! Hope those of you who’ve been off this week have had a relaxing one.

Investigation shows that Pigeon Forge has a Titanic museum with a faithful replica of the grand staircase, therefore it counts as a historical and educational trip (and we can pretend to be Kate Winslet).

I'm not sure what a Titanic museum is doing in Tennessee.

Can you just let me sleep in on Pigeon Forge day? I'll hang at the hotel and have a late breakfast and early liquid lunch.

I'm now 'that teacher' who calls in sick after a parent's evening. I'm remembering someone mentioning one and paranoid school will think I'm off ill because it was parent's evening. Woke up early hours with an explosive stomach. Trying to write cover between dashes to the bathroom is hard work!

Definitely one of the downsides of teaching that you can't just be ill, you have to be ill, up at the crack of dawn to text the right numbers and then able to write cover for all of your lessons and email it in in time for them to be able to sort it before registration. Good deterrent for taking the day off.

Loving the thread title.

I've had the disappearing juice issue twice, Jan, both for DC's tests as well. It's bizarre, isn't it.
Taking DH for his 2nd Pfizer this afternoon. Whoop!

Congratulations Carrie

Thanks Staff and ... tag, you're it ...

I'm not sure what a Titanic museum is doing in Tennessee.

I think it’s in Notes From a Big Country Bill Bryson describes random “attractions” across the USA, particularly in the Midwest, the idea being to bring visitors to places where they might not otherwise venture. I think one was a giant pig (but I may have made that up). A Titanic museum seems entirely sensible in the light of this.
I was skimming the thread BTW and thought - Pigeon Forge Day, hadn’t heard of that...

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Isn't this the 46th, not 56th thread?

Nope I got the number wrong time 🙄

Honest to god !

I meant to say that I got the number wrong last time