The Sixty-Second Republic - Pop da pop pop, the beat don't stop until the break of term

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Are they a bunch of mates all writing the same book?

Get well soon monkey

Sort of, mate.

A hoodie of your favourite YouTuber?

Sorry losing the will to live tonight...

His fave, not mine!!! (Not that I have one, altho did once get dragged to a DanTDM gig and he was vaguely cute ☺️)

Should have written, a hoodie which relates to a character or something - don’t really understand and have been told “You wouldn’t really understand, Mum.”

Honey apparently there’s a school in our shire with 31 cases but I’ve no idea where or which, saw a local headline! We just have the 2 cases notified on Mon evening.

Thank god mine aren’t into YouTube, I think I’d really begrudge buying that hoodie.

It’s the sort of thing my mum would have described as ‘overpriced tat’ before saying no.

Oh dear. I hope our luck lasts out till the end of term. I need a break from bloody covid before it all kicks off again in the autumn term.

I have been prescribed hrt - hoping it helps and trying not to get my hopes up for miracles but I really, really need these hot flashes to piss off - it's been years of them just getting worse and worse.

Excuse all the swearing.

Excuse all the swearing.

I think even Jan wouldn’t blink at that post!

Nope! Yeah so know it’s expensive tat.... but when a teen boy doesn’t ask for anything else, whaddya do?!

My baby is 14 today. I presented him with the first photo ever taken of him, which I happened across the other day. Of course, his big sis had to immediately point out that he was “covered in blood and other gunk - is that placenta or what??” (- only actually a few smudges, and he looks v cute wrapped in a white towel after his home birth!)

• blood smudges not placental smudges. Well actually more that greasy stuff they come out covered in (sorry, hanging preposition) (( - rivals @DanglingMod maybe??))

Bloody and piss though. I did downgrade both as other words sprang to mind initially.

I was so glad to be well armed with nice guidelines and best practice docs and up to date information on risks and benefits - managed to curtail a few inaccurate trying to put me off diversions as soon as he started them. He eventually retreated into yes, well you've obviously done your research and agreed a 3 month trial of patches. Times like this MN'ers and pinned posts are so valuable. I'm fairly sure if I hadn't been prepared I wouldn't have gotten the prescription.

Blah blah blah blood tests - nice guidelines in front of me say if you're 45 or over with vasomotor symptoms and irregular cycles no blood tests required you are perimenopausal. Blah blah risks of - yes that data refers to tablet form not patches. Blah blah a bit young - 45 as per nice guidelines.

Bit my lip when I felt like saying I know it's been a long time since you've even had to share a room with one patient without full ppe but try to imagine yourself in a room with 30 teenagers sat in a pile of your own sweat, having palpitations and struggling to remember the word for those things with 4 legs that you sit on.

Poor doctors. Bet they miss the days of obedient, cap in hand patients who couldn't research things.

Haha, Jan. I'll know I have a stalker, a la Nob, if someone name changes to HangingPreposition

I was so glad to be well armed with nice guidelines and best practice docs and up to date information on risks and benefits - managed to curtail a few inaccurate trying to put me off diversions as soon as he started them. He eventually retreated into yes, well you've obviously done your research and agreed a 3 month trial of patches. Times like this MN'ers and pinned posts are so valuable. I'm fairly sure if I hadn't been prepared I wouldn't have gotten the prescription.

Yep, me too. I read my diary of this today actually. Took me two years to get what I wanted. Hot flushes were gone in a week. So, hope it goes well.

struggling to remember the word for those things with 4 legs that you sit on

Yes! It's the nouns that go. Weird, isn't it.

You know when you have the 'spirited' class and you start to feel like slt are doubting your shit-hot behaviour management because there are lots of issues and then you are off sick for 2 days. Was a long, long day today trying to put my very wobbpy class back together but all the children, staff and parents were bloody pleased to see me. Ha!

*wobbly

@Monkeytennis97 hello and get well soon.

@Appuskidu

If bubbles are scrapped, does that mean we are back to whole school assemblies etc!?

I've both missed and not missed those. I get the combined pleasure and chore of running the weekly hymn practice usually.

I havent played the piano in school since late last February.

I'm fairly sure if I hadn't been prepared I wouldn't have gotten the prescription.

I was lucky enough to by chance see a locum GP from the Netherlands when I first asked for HRT and she just said “yes, of course” and wrote a prescription for patches immediately.

Considering a name change to DanglingNob now.

And urgh, maybe not.

Please don't dangle!

@noblegiraffe

Considering a name change to DanglingNob now.

And urgh, maybe not.

(not envy)

Hello Monkey

Nice to see you.

Yeah, no dangling please. You've just given me flashbacks to my growing up and puberty talk this morning.

Upon asking whether they had any questions after watching the dvd, one of them plaintively asked "Why did ad have to learn about that?"

The best was when I did a science lesson on human reproduction and at the end one of the year 7's said sternly, 'we will never speak of this again'