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

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@MrsHamlet

So.... anyone got any recommendations for nit treatments? I've just had a mortified text from my friend, and now my head is itchy!!!

I've used full marks and hedrin (autocorrect wanted that to be heroin!). Both worked fine, but you do then need to comb every couple of days for 2-3 weeks as well. Dont believe their hype that they kill the eggs, they always leave a few in dd's hair. We haven't had nits at all this academic year, which is brilliant as she seemed to always have them when she was younger.

Oh lord MrsH. Have you got long hair??

Thankfully Piggy no - not quite at my shoulders and very fine, so not a lot of it.

MrsAD - thanks. I'll remember that. I've never had nits so this could be a first.

Nitty Gritty comb and lots of cheap conditioner. Lather it on wet hair and comb through every few days for a couple of weeks - can't fail to work. I find the chemical treatments horrible and ineffective.

Been a long time since I've had to think of nits though.

I'm still stewing over the head having a go at me yesterday. Hate that I have let it effect me but I have. Feels very targeted and unnecessary.

Anyway I've been to the gym earlier and am off to my bubble friend's house for dinner and drinks soon and need to shake it off.

Conditioner and a nit comb should do it then. I have tangle prone , frizzy long hair and had nits once. Not fun.

I bought giant monster munch - they're helping with life rage.

We always found Hedrin and a Nitty Gritty comb worked fine. Don’t miss those days!

I walked 10 miles this afternoon, it was great!

Ironically, my year 12 lesson for Monday is an advert for the nitty gritty comb

@Piggywaspushed

Conditioner and a nit comb should do it then. I have tangle prone , frizzy long hair and had nits once. Not fun.

This is the reason dd1 ended up with a home haircut to a short bob in year 5. Waist length, tangled hair is not easy to get nits out of. A short bob (even if frizzy and tangle prone) is significantly quicker and easier to deal with the problem.

@MrsHamlet

Ironically, my year 12 lesson for Monday is an advert for the nitty gritty comb

How have you shoe-horned a half-naked man into that topic?

Shit noble I knew I'd missed something off my lesson plan!

@MrsHamlet

So.... anyone got any recommendations for nit treatments? I've just had a mortified text from my friend, and now my head is itchy!!!

I recommend not getting them in France, that was an interesting extension to my gcse french vocabulary, though the chemist did his best to understand me! (Poux in case you’re wondering...)

Oh gosh had forgotten I knew the French for lice.... think it came up a lot in C19th novels about the poor.....

MrsH that is beyond ironic!!! noble you made me lol.

Carrie how did you describe them? Des petite animaux qui marchent entre mes cheveux?

*petits, obvs

I think I said something about ma fille having les poux et les lentes in her cheveux and that I needed le shampooing or something (i did work out proper sentences and stuff!). They tried to fob me off with some herbal stuff but I insisted it needed to be plus fort and they sold me stuff in a scary yellow bottle with nit comb attached (and thankfully instructions in English as well as French and Dutch). Worked a treat but we do have a strict ‘no trying on medieval helmets’ rule in place now.

I can also get French chemists to understand my need for a contact lens case thanks to DH’s forgetfulness though I can’t now remember the vocab (casquette de something I think, he sold me ones that looked like little pigs and were clearly intended for a small child but did the job!)

Late to the thread but congratulations BigBobBoots! I bet you feel as if a weight has been lifted. I remember handing in my notice (my boss held me to every single day of my 3 months), then being in a teleconference where she tried to put me down and realising that I finally didn't give a shit. It was so liberating.

Honey and everyone on the bench, hope today has been better. I've done nothing today save for an hour or so out with youngest ds and enjoyed lazing about. Not involved in Y11 or 13 this year and feeling so jammy about it.

Glad to have survived the first week at school and pleased to see my classes again. I feel as if I've forgotten how to teach though!

Saucery not quite that bad 😬 I did try to be polite, if forthright.
Thanks Brie - yes, the relief is overwhelming. I just need to get through the next 11 weeks, but it makes it so much easier to know that there's an end in sight.
MrsH I spotted those giant monster munch today. Are they as good as they sound? Monster munch is my journey home post shit day snack.

Is MrsH a connoisseur of MSG enhanced snacks? Must have missed that conversation

I've eaten half a pack of the roast beef ones and they were okay. I'm saving the pickled onion ones for next time I'm in a rage!
I also love scampi fries...

Roast beef monster munch - unbeatable. It's not real food though.

One bonus of an autistic child. He didn't get close enough to his peers to ever get nits. I never had them as a child or since either.

(Quietly) I hate Monster Munch....

Is that as bad as finding Cillian a bit scary?