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

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff only – a sort of room of requirement for school staff to let off steam.

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Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation.

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.

non not job

I feel I'll be mocked

Can’t make any promises tbh

So, @TheHoneyBadger?

@Medra

I’ve not attended parents evening on my job-working days. They said they wouldn’t pay me, so I didn’t attend.

Don't you get offered TOIL? I do.

@TheHoneyBadger! I’ve woken up, read excitedly about your story…. To find it wasn’t posted!!!!

Morning everyone.
Interesting about attending inset on non-working days. I've not done it at my current school, but I found out you get extra pay if you attend compulsory insets on your days off - which will be the first two inset days in September.

I'm off to Alton Towers with dc today, booked the wrong date by mistake. Wondering whether it'll be busy because it's the weekend, or quiet because of the footie.

Would also like an interesting ex story, HoneyBadger! Mine are all nondescript.

honey where's this interesting ex story (I read it as sex story first and thought that might be tmi really)

We await honey’s diving ex story....

In the meantime, how did I/ we miss this month old article, about (possibly major) under reported of workplace related COVID deaths, inc in schools?

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/22/thousands-of-work-related-covid-deaths-go-unreported-in-uk

I think we did discuss it briefly when it came out honey. It is all pretty scandalous.

Gearing up here in 'England's Little Italy' today for a night of car horns and flares and possibly fights. the place always goes mental when Italians win so it could be interesting.

Two girls I teach have been app pinged (one for the third time!). Both have had covid, one only three weeks ago (these girls are very much in the crosshairs, it seems!). Surely this is when isolation is clearly unnecessary? She won't be able to test anyway!

Not honey : jan. We all have honey on our minds because we want the story!!

I want to hear Honey’s story too. None of my exes are remotely glam. All have got grumpier with age, which makes me think I’ve dodged a number of bullets. Why do men (on the whole) get more boring with age than women?

Confidence tends to be what makes the difference with women, doesn’t it?

Interesting question. Mens’ lives are dominated by work post-education. The majority of women’s are changed in so many ways by having children.

Not exactly glam, but 2/4 of my exes are now professors. As is my best friend. I went wrong somewhere.....

Dh is getting more boring as he ages, which is a shame. I mean, I still like/love him, but as dd2 gets older I'd like to do more exciting things. He's happiest in front of his computer. So I do exciting things by myself, and then he moans that we don't do much as a family, but he's been invited to come with us for every day out.

I am very dull.

Well I'm pretty dull too tbh. The "exciting things" I want to do are not very exciting to most people. It's more like a weekend away somewhere, or a meal out somewhere (even a pub lunch is more than I get at the minute)

Dull isn't defined by what you do, but who you are.

I don't find you lot dull in the slightest.

There are very few actually dull people. Everyone is passionate about something somewhere. I love hearing people talk about something they care about or have an absolute love for. No matter what the topic, I could listen to them all day. The boring talks on radio 4 are perfect for this.

Exciting doesn't have to be adrenalin releasing things. I get excited about writing spreadsheets, can't help it, just who I am! Social media has a lot to answer for when it comes to doing things. A generation ago, a visit to a castle ruins was a treat.

I literally never go out or anywhere. This began when we had DCs as we had no family nearby so never went out. I guess we could now but I prefer in! So much faff to go out.

because I have never been pt or a SAHM I never really built networks of friends either and DCs are both boys so no shopping buddies etc.

Asa teenager I was massively sociable so perhaps I've had my moment!

Lots of modern people live nowhere near extended family but it doesn't really feel like that round here - people aren't very geogrpahically mobile.

I think I might be perceived as ‘dull’ because the things I like to do involve remote walks and non-busy historic houses! And knitting and niche real wool suppliers It was a lot of fun doing those things with DS when he was little but he’s more selective about what he does now.
For instance, I’ll be going to bed at 8 with a good book and not watching the football. Therefore I will not be able to have any opinions on it tomorrow.

I'm an introvert but have too many friends. Not a brag, a fact . Trying to trim them down as I age as they're almost all people I see separately (hate groups) and I've not enough time or energy...

Kate Green on Beeb talking about schools.

generation ago, a visit to a castle ruins was a treat.

I would still find this a treat. My husband doesn't like going out either likes to sit in gaming,reading or coding.

Extra premises is something she said they would support. Kate, we couldn't staff them!!

She supports mask wearing and comments on lack of published evidence. Testing back for schools. in school.

It was annoying actually as Andrew M asked her about schools and then gave her the hurry up afetr about 20 seconds.

DH would like to go to pubs more. I am not sure middle aged men appreciate that lots of women totally lose their stomach for drinking sessions!