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« Reply #5071 on: 17:55:25, 13-03-2008 » |
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Good luck, MJ.
(Retirement is GRRReat !! all those targets/inspections/etc all someone elses problem...yippeee!)
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« Reply #5072 on: 21:08:48, 13-03-2008 » |
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Thanks everyone.  Just popped in for a break but must go and do some more maths marking and sticking-in-of-far-too-many-worksheets. It's all very well people saying Ofsted don't like seeing photocopied sheets but there's an awful lot of good work on them which the children could not otherwise have done. MJ |
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« Reply #5073 on: 21:31:32, 13-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #5074 on: 21:38:51, 13-03-2008 » |
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I am sitting here with a bunch of reports and a 3pm deadline-some of the clerical demands remind me of being back at primary school-colour for this, colour for that, no photocopies equivalents etc. Getting more done in the quiet, but you need a warped mind -more yet than the likes of mine-and exponential time to make a coherent work ethic out if this stuff ,even if youre 'Sharon and Tracy'  . This is a New Labour moment methinks. |
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« Reply #5075 on: 22:04:40, 13-03-2008 » |
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Remember marbles, '... the moment this pub closes/the revolution starts' (one of your best I always thought).
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« Reply #5076 on: 20:07:59, 14-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #5077 on: 20:24:42, 14-03-2008 » |
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Remember marbles, '... the moment this pub closes/the revolution starts' (one of your best I always thought).
Thanks for the solidarity Tinners. It is almost done, a few bits to wrap Monday, commiserating with my boss`over her analogous travails, and recovering from arctic conditions at Lunnun Brij at 0245 as the perumbulating sphinx slowly reared into life to convey me to my basket for a couple of hours. The trend may be to do this stuff from home, but if so it'd be necessary to fumigate the more before attempting any creativity. |
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« Reply #5078 on: 20:45:10, 14-03-2008 » |
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Bloody washing machine! Just spent the last few hours trying to rescue a load of washing from a washing machine stuck in the middle of the rinse/spin cycle. I went through all the standard procedures of turning off, emptying the water out via the emergency hose, unscrewing the outlet fitler cover and cleaning the filter (it did not seem to be blocked anyway), ... Now I have had to spin the load in two separate batches and have the job of sorting out all the inlet and outlet pipes and filter on my next day off. Meanwhile I have had to miss tonight's concert at the ASMitF. Not happy! Oh bugler, Bryn! That's seriously-hacked-off-time. Barsteward machine |
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« Reply #5079 on: 21:51:50, 14-03-2008 » |
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Indeed, Mort. Sympathy, Bryn! Perhaps you should entice Member Barrett around, whose plumbing skills are apparently legendary.  |
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« Reply #5080 on: 21:56:22, 14-03-2008 » |
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Indeed, Mort. Sympathy, Bryn! Perhaps you should entice Member Barrett around, whose plumbing skills are apparently legendary. ... although I believe Member Garnett can give him a run for his money. |
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« Reply #5081 on: 22:36:56, 14-03-2008 » |
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Indeed, Mort. Sympathy, Bryn! Perhaps you should entice Member Barrett around, whose plumbing skills are apparently legendary. Yes, I have heard that particular legend, and am more than happy to rely on my own, admittedly somewhat 'rusty' plumbing experience, (in my youth, shortly after a brief period in the army, I worked for a heating and ventilating research outfit, plumbing, and testing oil-fired central heating systems under laboratory conditions). It's just the time and nuisance factor of it all. |
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« Reply #5082 on: 00:13:31, 15-03-2008 » |
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I've left my glasses in Durham (somewhere in my supervisor's flat).
My flat here is a mess (I described it as looking like a 'boy flat' given the piles of paper and laundry, clean and unclean, scattered everywhere) and it really needs a hoover.
I'm lonely.
But this doesn't for some reason make me sad or grumpy. It did yesterday, but tonight I feel some kind of zen calm.
It just doesn't matter.
In fact nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
(Nothing really matters) to me.
Did I mention it's been a long week/month/term?
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« Reply #5083 on: 02:24:32, 15-03-2008 » |
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I'm lonely too.
Fed up to the back teeth of keeping everybody else's head above water. The boyfriend is a loser too.
I'm tired.
Did I mention I was lonely? You're right, nothing really matters, anyone can see. Nothing really matters to me.
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