The Sixty-fourth Republic - good luck to those still gliding towards the holidays especially after euro final

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We are still waiting advice on chairs and masks but keep the windows open. You don’t have to upload LFT results during the holidays.Do not sit on the chairs and do wear a mask.

I had an Alfie this year. He was lovely.

OMG Brie you had a BBC! We had a BBC! And Repton, loved Repton!

Did you have all the games that were coded for the BBC that were identical to the proper game but with a different name, like Snapper for Pac-Man and Croaker for Frogger?

Re antibody tests (vaccine type): a local Prof of Nursing who appears on local radio every Tues as we drive to school said they can give false negatives. He’d been double vaxxed and tested neg for antibodies. Sounded quite relaxed about it!

Have just (slightly bared - born? - my soul on Data, in a probably futile attempt to get them to stop arguing (again). Fool that I am.

It's the L names at my school. All of our Logans or Leos are fully fledged Bobs.

@noblegiraffe

OMG Brie you had a BBC! We had a BBC! And Repton, loved Repton!

Did you have all the games that were coded for the BBC that were identical to the proper game but with a different name, like Snapper for Pac-Man and Croaker for Frogger?

I think we only had Chuckie Egg and Repton . Oh, one about kingdoms too, where you had to make a load of decisions and usually ended up flooding your village. I do remember learning to program in Basic and thinking I was the bee's knees for it though. We had 3 computers at Junior school which were wheeled to classes on a rota. I was computer monitor . I still remember creating L plates and sticking them to the trolleys. I don't think I've never not been a nerd 🤓.

Do the kids still play Granny's Garden at primary school? I loved that.

Ah so it is program.

Lexie was my female Bob who has now left. Bob or Bobette?

Just had a happy Google and now also recall Hunchback and Pac Man! Ravenskull rings a bell but I'm not sure we had it.

DSis used to teach in Japan and she said it's the kids with curly hair that used to behave the worst!

Seems to be an overlap between nerds and maths teachers 🤓

Thanks to Jan for suggesting I game as I found www.bbcmicro.co.uk/ and have been nostalgically playing some blasts from the past including Repton!

Hunchback

Literally just played that! The annoying sound when you jump!

Just for interest, this popped up on my news feed from Lucy Kellaway:

www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jul/14/leaving-burnout-behind-the-pain-and-pleasure-of-starting-a-new-career-in-my-50s

I don't think I've never not been a nerd 🤓.

The triple negative is bothering me and saying the opposite of what I meant confirms nerd status.

My Year 10s are currently programming retro games such as Breakout using Pygame/Python! I’m having a lot of fun with those lessons

Morning all. The picnic was surprisingly lovely. Some girls girls from my form bought Monopoly in and there was a lovely little group playing. We then watched ‘Soul’. Hadn’t seen it before and loved it! They gave me a card that said ‘that ma for being our stand in tutor. It’s been fun this year’. I thought ‘I’ve spent the last year telling you all to shut the F up so I can take the register/give you notices/discuss stuff’ etc. Amazing what kids think.

Still haven’t told my kids that they’re not going in next week. They took end of year cards in yesterday and didn’t even question that. I know DS won’t care but DD will want to experience the end of year ‘atmosphere’. I want m holiday though!

*brought

Emay, with a short ‘e’ at the start like in Emily. Aimee is the French spelling and that is the French pronunciation. Here I think it used as an alternative spelling for Amy. At home the French pronunciation tends to go with the French spelling, English pronunciation with the English IME. I suspect that might be changing though.

Interesting. I've only met a couple Aimees and they were both Amy, but one was American a s one was English so I guess I'll know this for when I meet a french one someday haha.

I had an Aimee in my NQT class years ago (KS1). She was a complete space cadet, as were her parents. Used to regularly show up to school with no pants on, which I’d then only discover when she sat cross legged on the carpet in front of me.

noble and jan that's really interesting to hear, I need to do more reading into it definitely. Not sure what test she had so may have been the infection one.

There’s a girl in DD’s class called Elivia. Joined a couple of years ago.

Convo went like this:

DD “new girl started today called Elivia”
Me: “do you mean Olivia?”
DD: “no Elivia, with an ‘e’”
Me: “that’s not a name”

I bet someone now tells me it is! 😆

Chuckle egg, jet set Willy, covenant we loved. Plus one called wriggler on the amstrad 64! I was also the BEST at turbo lotus esprit 2 (can’t quite remember the name 🤣)

I’ve got granny’s garden on my phone as an app recently…. My kids were like wtf is this…. Someone needs to rerelease chuckle egg for the switch 🤣

Very good dreaming

Nerds…..ASSEMBLE

Listening to a frustrating piece on R4 discussing the chaos caused to food supply and hospitality by so many people being pinged by the ‘advisory’ app, with one employer being asked whether they should just ask employees to come in even if pinged as it’s not a legal requirement to isolate.

No suggestion that maybe increasing infection rates might need to be managed, or that encouraging people to ignore isolation will make infection rates worse, and no acknowledgement that if you have covid you have to isolate and that is also disruptive.

Stock up your Brexit stashes though.

I was thinking about the Venn diagram for nerds and maths teachers, assuming it would be maths teachers as a subset of nerds 🤓, but then I remembered MrsH's cool Maths department. So maybe not! Apologies to any other maths teachers who don't identify as nerds.

Greece holiday has been postponed to mid-August. Who knows if they will let us in. Feeling morally torn, my heart says we shouldn't travel but dh desperate to get away.