The broom cupboard 3 - for briefly stranded republicans

[TheHoneyBadger]

First in tops up the gin supplies and turns on the tea urn.

@winewolfhowls we have had milk delivered for about 3 years now. Would never go back.

I have milk, apple juice, organic eggs and a loaf of bread delivered every week. It's an ace thing.

I really would like milk delivered but they only go to houses, not flats.

I feel better today but if this is a mild version, God help people who had it ‘properly’.

I get milk delivered too, in the glass bottles of my childhood.

How has it been, Dolly?

I have milk delivered too. We started over lockdown 1, and we like it. It's not in glad bottles though, it's the same sort of plastic bottles we get in the supermarket, just from a local dairy instead.

I actually have a some pet cows we milk! It's the best!

Probably massively outed myself to anyone that knows me irl.... there can't be too many teachers with lots of dc and pet cows 😂

How big is your garden?!

I have milk delivered, get eggs from a neighbour, potatoes, carrot and onion by the sack from the farm in the village. You can also sign up for veg boxes from them but I live next door so I just pop to the doorstep stall. We have a butchers van and a fish van once a week and they leave it in a coolbox for me round the back.

Glad you are feeling better Dolly.

I know 3 teachers at my school with lots of children (I mean 4 or 5, not 20) and pet cows. They all live on farms. So don't worry too much about being outed, in some areas is apparently perfectly normal to have pet cows 🤷

I buy eggs from Bob in year 11.

We have a Bob who shows sheep

In all honesty, not too bad but not particularly enjoyable! A very bad head cold. The worst has been the isolation. I'm desperate for a walk and some fresh air.

Thank you

@noblegiraffe

How big is your garden?!

We rent a field and shed. @MsAwesomeDragon We show our cows too!

Sorry - wrong Mrs
@MrsHamlet!

My Bob this year (or one of them) explained to me the satellite use of big combines and why there's that turny bit in field corners. Can't write a sentence but without his family, less potatoes and bread. He also knows how to test a wheat kernal for ripeness. School is just rubbish for so many practical, clever boys and girls. He's probably one of the brightest in my class but he'll get fuck all from our education system.

Show your cows what?

Glad to hear you weren't too ill, Dolly, have you been setting work?

As in take them to an agricultural show and see which one is best. Also which child is the best handler.

It's great but lots of hard work.

@phlebasconsidered

My Bob this year (or one of them) explained to me the satellite use of big combines and why there's that turny bit in field corners. Can't write a sentence but without his family, less potatoes and bread. He also knows how to test a wheat kernal for ripeness. School is just rubbish for so many practical, clever boys and girls. He's probably one of the brightest in my class but he'll get fuck all from our education system.

My ds2 was like this. A clever boy - he did actually manage to just pass all GCSE's but god it was a slog.

Dd is in year 3 currently and loves the social side of school but just lives for being outside and doing practical stuff.

Glad you're feeling better Dolly. Hope you're fully recovered soon.

Feeling like I've been hit by a bus after a full week back (and I'm only 0.6, but been in every day this week!). Have met nearly all of my classes, had some good and some terrible lessons. Kids seem fine, possibly the odd Bob but otherwise good.

In some ways I'm glad to be back and in other I'm thinking "you don't pay me enough for this!".

It’s been amazing walking around the class and having those little interactions that form good relationships with classes, it makes such a difference.

I’m not sure how I feel about it once they all start getting covid.

School is just rubbish for so many practical, clever boys and girls.

I'm from a farming family. I have a cousin who is very dyslexic, can barely read road signs. He's 35, having had a crap time at school - fights to get statement and so on. Failed by the system really. He earns double what I do.

Ive feeling much more positive about my job this year. Waiting to see if that positivity remains once the lurg arrives.

I've always worked in farming schools. One has a weird midweek inset - it's for the county show.

We sometimes have the county show inset, but I think the Cumberland show is on at weekends now. It's a big thing, even I've been to it and I have no interest in farming at all normally.