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Jerry if a teacher is expected to be responsible for all those things what on earth are the parents doing. Most of those things were instilled in us, both before and during our school years by our parents. I tried to continue this with my son and I know that he does the same with his More...

Hi Rayray, when I was small and first saw a photo of a man wearing a cork rimmed hat I could not understand how they hung down around his face when it was quite clear from my (mainly pink) globe that they must be upside down!

Right you are, GMo, but the children of irresponsible parents walk through the classroom door along with the ones that have parents that have done it right, and the teacher is expected to deal with both ... at the same time.

Maybe we should start giving compulsory child rearing classes to these parents. Maybe starting with putting them in front of a class of just unruly kids and leave them to control them and see for themselves...... but then again they were probably unruly themselves and would just join in the anarchic behavior.

Whilst I am feeling a 'grump' - why don't long haul airlines put ALL children upstairs in jumbo's so that 'grown ups' traveling without children can sleep and otherwise enjoy their flight. Having traveled from Singapore to London for 13 hours with , according to the flight attendant 27 under 10's on the flight I can tell you it would drive even the greatest child lover to distraction!

Having had my little rant I'm off to a vide grenier. A bit of sunshine and fresh air should do the trick.

Kate, for achieving grandmotherhood.

Aw, missed it...

You slacker. Lazing away in bed when you should have been up posting your 2 hourly.
What can I say except that it's hard to get reliable people these days.

What can I tell you, from? I was dismissed from my position as village idiot because the quality of my work wasn't up to standard...

chatroom???

Missed it but was talking to my 10 year old grandee. Here is one of her latest poems from her blog
Summer Days

On summer days I like to...

build houses for fairies,
look for shooting stars,
watch wimbledon,
make daisy chains,
swim in the sea,
fly on a More...

Puts a on your dial and a happy in your .

Thank you Mo. She is so gifted.

2:28 Hi to all.

Thought for the Day:

A smile takes but a moment, but the memory of it lasts forever.

Secondary Thought for the Day:

Which would you rather make: walls, conversation, or coffee?

Or cake?...

or Hot chocolate?

Love the poem Mo!

Mo - your grandee's poem sums up childhood perfectly!

andré - If it doesn't start raining again today, I plan to go to the beach and make a splash.

It's probably too late in my life to make a name for myself.

...but one is never too old to make a difference.

and now I'm signing off before I make a fool of myself....

I have spent a very pleasant 30 minutes sitting in the garden with Steve. Both of us armed with a Kir au Surreau admiring work done and planning work to be.....

Sammi thinks we are planting up too much of his own facilities space!!! But then he likes the cover when preparing to pounce on the 'delightful creatures who love to lunch on my salad veg!'

Sammi may be many things but a racist he is not....be it butterfly or bird, rabbit or mouse, lizard or spider.....if it moves he will have it.

Jane, you can't possibly go to the beach when it's raining. Silly you. You might get wet...