Today I've mostly bin...

[giraffe]

Well done Laura, fingers crossed for the second batch.

[Bunnylump]

It's nerve-wracking, waiting for pupil results, isn't it? Good luck with the others, too!

[Looby]

Giraffe - she looks stunning!

[MBH]

I hope K is having a great time - she certainly looks lovely in that photo.

he couldn't believe that the little dot he started teaching ten years ago had grown into such a young lady all of a sudden.

Yes - it's odd how a decade can have such an effect at THAT age - Where as WE don't look any different

[giraffe]

Let's hope we can sort her hair out for tomorrow (hairdresser used a lot of cement on it) as she's wearing "your" jacket to her induction day!

edit (Message to Looby not MBH!)

[pebbles]

giraffe, she's beautiful! Hope she had a lovely time.

Laura, congratulations to your 2 pupils and hoping for good news for your other 2!

[tricia]

I hope K had a great time - K you looked absolutely stunning

Tricia

[clvrlad]

I'm now looking forward to the challenge for my nephew's birthday - they are having a "make the best dinosaur cake" competition next month. With prizes (he will be 26, by the way!!). I INTEND to win. Mind you, as one of the contenders is my brother, who thought it would be a great plan to "make" a food mixer the last time he made a cake, by bending a wire coathanger into a whisk shape and adding it to his electric drill...and most of the cake ended up on the ceiling... I think I stand a reasonable chance!

how did it go??

oh btw
click the thumbnail on this page to see a most impressive Millennium Falcon wedding cake, complete with lights http://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/commen ... ed_by_the/

[Bunnylump]

Well, because I was driving to and from Cornwall on the Friday and SAturday, I didn't have time to do my best effort, since I only had the Sunday morning to make and decorate the cake AND to make spicy chicken pieces. However, it wasn't a bad effort (it was a TRex with its jaws open and milk bottle sweets for teeth). It did taste nice though. There were entries from my nephew's girlfriend, my brother, and my niece too. My niece won the prize with her green, 3D dinosaur complete with googly eyes. I was quite jealous of the prize though, it was a dinosaur space hopper! Anyway, she has promised to get another one and bring it round to mine for a spacehopper challenge in the garden.

And today I have mostly bin...
doing year 10 work experience visits. I went to a garage, where the poor lad wasn't allowed to DO anything because of the dangerous machinery, so had to spend a week WATCHING people, then went to a Montessouri nursery and watched the little kids being taught to read by our pupil who can hardly read herself... Then I went to the Engineering Industry Training Board where the lad had been in three different departments, had fitted in really well and was really enjoying himself. So that was quite satisfying. It made a nice change to get out and about.

[giraffe]

K used dangerous machinery on her work experience. Sharp knives, blow torches and a machine for polishing flutes that they said was too dangerous, but let her use on the last day.

I was having a couple of tyres changed yesterday and there was a notice at the first garage I tried that said something like:

"Would customers kindly refrain from helping to change tyres, batteries and (something) and not loiter in the work area. This is for your own health and safety." made me laugh.

[Wulfruna]

What a lovely picture of our Kingsley (funny, she doesn't look anything like her old avatar ) Hope she had a wonderful time.

[eirian]

a friend of mine needed some work doing on their landrover. They didn't trust the garage, so her OH, who's an engineer, took all his own safety equipment (steel toed boots included) and got his boss to arrange insurance, just so the garage didn't have any excuse for keeping him out of the workshop!

[LAT]

.....at Hampton Court Palace Flower show. Had a great day, walked miles, and also came home with a few plants and seeds. And lots of leaflets.
Lots of thanks to a friendly rag doll who arranged it, bought the tickets and even drove me there and back.

Now all I need is to win one of the competitions to win a holiday that I entered.

[Looby]

... at Hampton Court Flower Show. Had a great day and walked miles and bought a few things. Some people complained they were tired and we had to sit down for tea and cake in the afternoon!

[giraffe]

Sounds like a great day out. I hope that sitting eating cake has been factored into the August Bunnylump hike!

[clvrlad]

Now all I need is to win one of the competitions to win a holiday that I entered.

be careful
i entered a competition to win a holiday and not too long afterwards started getting cold calls from a time share company

[Bunnylump]

Sounds like a great day out. I hope that sitting eating cake has been factored into the August Bunnylump hike!

Seriously, no major hike planned - and do you SERIOUSLY think I wouldn't include cake AND /OR ice cream AND / OR a pub in anything I plan?

If the final route doesn't incorporate a good enough cake place, I will make you a special puzzlebrains cake myself. My specialities include gooey chocolate or lemon drizzle.

Today I've mostly bin...
Completing my last day this term. YAY! It was year 6 taster day, so I was to be found:
Making a volcano.
Dancing and singing in the middle of the circle (including "boogieing down!!") and playing a cowbell.
Holding a conversation in French.

Have come home armed with a big bouquet of flowers and a very tempting looking bottle of red wine.

[tricia]

Don't know what's going on - Police helicopter hovering above my house. Can't see anything in the street- maybe it will be in the local paper next week. Its the start of the school holidays so perhaps some kids messing about

Tricia

[Bunnylump]

I've just read the local paper and wish I hadn't. Two men killed on a motorbike because they were driving at 100mph in a 50 limit, a teenager stabbed near the town centre at 11 30 am, and some bloke being prosecuted for sticking his head under the cubicles in the swimming pool and looking at 6 year olds. What's the world coming to?

Anyway, my boy's helping me take my mind off it by standing about 3 feet away from me with his Kaoss Pad* and amp, playing his electric guitar - currently listening to "Teardrop" (Massive Attack). He's very good, it's hard to believe one person can do all that at the same time with the electronic gadgetry. Trouble is, I'll have that song in my head for about a week now...

*Bassbloke - you'd love it. It's brilliant fun.

[Scurra]

I've just read the local paper and wish I hadn't. Two men killed on a motorbike because they were driving at 100mph in a 50 limit, a teenager stabbed near the town centre at 11 30 am, and some bloke being prosecuted for sticking his head under the cubicles in the swimming pool and looking at 6 year olds. What's the world coming to?

Hmmm. Someone's pushed my button again. But... several thousand people went out on motorbikes and weren't killed, plenty of teenagers weren't even in an argument let along a stabbing, and lots of blokes went to the swimming pool and had a swim.

The newspaper is there to report news. Someone crossing the road perfectly safely isn't news. Someone getting knocked down is. The fact that the latter is massively outnumbered by the former doesn't change that. But if it makes you happier to think that the world is going to hell in handcart, then that's up to you.