Sara Morrison v BFF thread 4

[MarieDeGournay]

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Oh god I cant wait to hear Sandy Kemps thoughts on that.

I think I will spend thos evening reading the SP submissions to be ready for the decision, presumably hot on the heels of the conclusion of SM's hearing.

That sounds remarkably like our first car in the mid-60s which was an ancient Ford Popular with the same kind of indicators and a 3 speed gearbox which meant learning how to double-declutch. 😱 I tried to learn to drive with an instructor with a 4-speed gearbox and my father taking me out for practice with the 3-speed. 😬It wasn't really surprising that I failed my first test and didn't try again for several years.

DH was amused, when dropping DD's stuff at the Big Yellow nearest uni, that the next door unit was advertising that it paid cash for second hand clothes. SHe may very well need their services at the end of this year.....

Brownies were definitely a prod a activity in my area. Held in Orange Hall (freezing old building) and guides in Presbyterian Church hall (warmer). However membership was (is?) quite small as Girls' Brigade was the big thing and to a lesser extent Girls' Friendly Society. I suspect the other 2 are strictly for girls only at all ages.

Qualifications: I have a resuscitation certificate¹ from the Royal Navy, so wish henceforth to be addressed as Admiral.

¹ Technically I couldn't push hard enough on Resuscianne's chest to make the green light come on, but they took pity on me for being a rather slight 7 year old and gave me the certificate anyway.

I felt that this might have been raised bcos part of the employers case against SM was that her speech would damage working relationships with partner organisations, but here is a line manager's behaviour 15 years ago still damaging working relations. Sauce for the goose?
But quite right to swim against the tide, dare to be a daniella

Seems fair to say that everything NC does, she does with a purpose. And one that is surely more than just discomfiting the witness. Guess we'll have to see whether the end justifies the means.

I wasn't a Brownie but a Juno, in the vilest coloured uniform ever (bright green dress with a pale blue tie). We did military drilling, marching in church parades & Pilgrim's Progress. I forget what else - maybe nothing else. Chanting bible verses, I think: they shall mount up with wings as eagles, etc.

England in the 1960s.

Later on I joined the Guides, which was much more fun: hiking, lighting fires, camping holidays, creative stuff, a trip to a World House, even. They seem to be called World Centres now.

I have some sympathy for individuals who like to keep their private lives private. But not 'local personalities' who like to raise their profile with 'Life' pieces all about their 'special relationships' and name partners, parents, best friends, mentors, even housemates.

In a Belfast Telegraph profile in 2014 Ruth McCarthy had been partnered up with someone new for 18 months. It seems quite possible everyone moved on and there was indeed a back channel to be exploited.
Belfast Telegraph

Finally caught up.
Former Brownie. Any other Gnomes out there? I was a Seconder. The Sixer was younger than me, but she had joined the week before me, thus teaching me the invaluable lesson that life's not fair.
I earned a Housekeeping badge, and an Arts and Crafts badge. My oeuvre for the latter included a lighthouse carved from white soap. A masterpiece it was.
I-Spy books for me were synonymous with long car journeys, and I'm planning to buy some for me my GC.
Anyway, keep up the c&p'ing, sleuthing and commentating. MN does indeed rock.

That’s so handy to know. One of mine is likely to go that route and neither of us went to uni so we’re clueless. She got shortlisted at school in a postcode thing for smart kids that come from postcodes with low university applicants, but wasn’t picked. She would have had all sorts of careers advice and help with applications. Although I can now tell her not to worry, it’s dead easy to become a professor just by winging it.

I will be updating my CV to include my Amateur Athletic Association (school) certificates plus the fact that I was sports captain.

Judge rejects application over employment tribunal panellist - BBC News

We had to move in and out each term back in the 90s, I got very good at packing all my stuff into a Ford Fiesta very quickly.

I did try leaving a bottle of vodka locked in the wardrobe one holiday, unsurprisingly the wardrobe was broken on my return and no vodka.

I would agree on the back channel.

I think the complication of partner theft stalled a working relationship and I think that was NCs point. From the entire history of no collaboration to a response that was entirely unnecessary given that whole history strongly suggests a back channel.

Please may we all send our newly enhanced CVs to NHSFife HR dept by way of applying for the newly vacated CEO post?

I mean it’s actually great to see things moving…..

But so far to go.

One of life’s big lessons - never leaving your booze unattended. 😆

It was in a series of gossipy chatty 'people' articles ['celebrity would be going too far] about relationships of all kinds, and it was in 2014.

She probably didn't think it would be used against her at an ET in 2025!

I notice that her best friend [at the time anyway..] is a human rights barrister..

Thanks to everyone for your commentary. I am currently in warm climes on a last minute holiday and have spent all afternoon suggesting to DH that it was time for a drink and a sit down as we pootled around our nearest “old town”. He had me sussed and kept asking “are you really that thirsty or do you just want to read MN?”. He agreed it was time for ice cream at 3pm but I think the world was refreshing NW’s Twitter feed at that point so I gave it up as a bad job, and have just caught up while soaking my feet back at the hotel.

(Never a member of a guiding organisation but do have grade 1,2 and 3 music theory certificates. )

Trying to catch up, and I know it may not be verbatim but:

"I don't accept that it's more complex"

"it's very complex"

That'll do, drink!!!

Also, you don't get to complain about verbal gymnastics, you really don't, not when everyone else is expected to put up with leaping over the bloody wooden horse.
I've just been served in a shop by a young man, ze/zyr according to one of his gazillion badges, and he thought it was fine to call me sweetie and darling, the fucking nerve. I bottled it but wish I'd at least said "Bye petal". DH laughed his way back to the car.

Oh and (brightens up), I have grade 5 music theory, grade 8 violin and grade 7 piano, passed my cycling proficiency and called Snowy Owl thick.

oft this thread has moved on too fast, cannae keep up

To be fair to you all, I think that after seeing the way SP was buoyed up by all the support postcards she received then, as Fife's first and only Professor of Support Postcards, I will obviously be a shoe-in for the CEO role. But if you all apply with your doctorates in crossing roads safely and making elegant forward rolls, then everyone in Fife can know that I beat off a high level of competition for the role.

I look forward to removing the problematic datix system, and inviting the local Scout troops to implement an internal postcard system for the safe collection of clinical and organisational data.

I will pay the Scouts in Snickers bars, and promote the best of them to befriend anaphylactic children and encourage them to remain in the waiting area until the kind emergency doctors have finished crying and are ready to see them.

That was a day.

I think when the Judge said, “that’s not the way we do things around here” on Friday, she may have had to adapt to a new way of doing things.

Well considered response to the application. It was rebuffed and I’m sure that if anything is due to come out it will. If no bias all good, on we go.

Hostile witness wouldn’t be in it.

MD said the oddest thing. When she was offered to finish up today and be released from oath she said something along the line of - It’s been long and it’s exhausting being under oath and not being able to talk to anyone. So the normal follow on would be, let’s get this over with (since she’d only been on the stand 40mins or so). Instead she said so I’m happy to be under oath again tonight.

Her choice but the constant inconguence of her thoughts or behaviours is really difficult to follow. She had one supporter today but no one from the board.

It’s been a long enough stint for folk. They’ve clearly worked the weekend. Sara is holding up - but it’s been a long two years and she’s been so ostracised. She’s a warrior.

Everyone was alert 🚨 Mumsnet likely had a few hits from Belfast postcodes.

Seriously impressed with grade 8 violin - please accept a knighthood!