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Post by tetsabb on Aug 30, 2024 19:49:14 GMT
The little so-and-so has only just come in! She'd been out all day and we were really starting to worry. I heard JJ yowling from the side garden so I went to see what was wrong. I was met by a small furry black projectile as she came flying round the corner. She's now doing what she does best... eating. Poor little thing must be starving. I did worry a bit that she might be out longer than you had hoped.
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Post by efros on Aug 30, 2024 20:04:04 GMT
Long day today preceded by a very long day yesterday. It was Open House at the school yesterday, and that meant I was in the school from 7am until circa 7pm that night. 5 hours of student contact time followed by a few hours of room organizing, finished off by a couple hours of interaction with the parents who had chosen to visit us. Today, although shorter by a good 4 hours, seemed to be longer. Four consecutive classes will do that to you. This morning I had plans to cook something nice for supper tonight, but I'm afraid those plans have been canned in favour of some takeaway, which is about the limit of my enthusiasm just now.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 30, 2024 20:50:20 GMT
I did worry a bit that she might be out longer than you had hoped. She was only out for about 20 minutes first thing this morning, then she came back in, ate, and had a kip. She went back out again at about 9.30 and only came back in just before my previous post.
I think we'd better keep her inside for a little while longer. My nerves can't stand another day like today.
She's sitting by the back door again as I type. Think again, pussycat!
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Post by suze on Aug 30, 2024 21:26:31 GMT
She's found out the way to Kitty's!
In our household mythology, there are two licensed premises for cats. Kitty's is where younger cats, tending female, go to drink alcopops with paper umbrellas sticking out of the bottles, and to dance around their handbags. Older cats, tending male, go to the Bat And Spider, where you can still get a light and bitter and there's a dartboard.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 31, 2024 12:40:50 GMT
Older cats, tending male, go to the Bat And Spider, where you can still get a light and bitter and there's a dartboard. Thanks to Primus' Tommy the Cat, I imagine that the male cats go to O'Malley's.
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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 31, 2024 15:05:26 GMT
Getting towards the end of a holiday week. It has been busy every day, leaping about to see places, and after starting the week on a mountain in a storm I have been walking several miles a day to walk off the stiffness. I need to get back to work for a rest.
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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 31, 2024 21:48:50 GMT
I've had to go to Washington twice this week - really not my favourite place, but I managed to finish the week with a spectacular show in Toronto.
The only reason to visit Washington is that it has the only Tesla supercharger in County Durham. Toronto is convenient, as an easy walk from Bishop Auckland.
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Post by suze on Sept 1, 2024 13:04:41 GMT
It is back to the chalkface this coming week. Tomorrow is the tedious but necessary Admin Day, and then large numbers of children appear on Tuesday. The scarcely-children-any-more of Year 13 get a bonus day off and are not required to present themselves until Wednesday. This is a longstanding practice for which no one appears to know a reason, but it does seem to lead to the first class with a Year 13 group skipping the pleasantries and getting on with it. That is as it should be in Year 13, so we may as well continue with the longstanding practice.
This morning we were up rather earlier than usual for a Sunday, because TGH is at Lord's. A look at the television suggests that he has the famous old ground largely to himself. Having delivered him to the railway station I then went swimming. 102 lengths, I think. My standard target in a 25 meter indoor pool is 100 lengths, but I lost count at one point and I think I went slightly over my obligation.
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Post by suze on Sept 1, 2024 13:07:06 GMT
I've had to go to Washington twice this week - really not my favourite place, but I managed to finish the week with a spectacular show in Toronto. The only reason to visit Washington is that it has the only Tesla supercharger in County Durham. Toronto is convenient, as an easy walk from Bishop Auckland. Did you go via Philadelphia, which isn't very far from Washington?
The cricket ground in Philadelphia is called Bunker Hill.
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Post by efros on Sept 1, 2024 13:18:37 GMT
No red square in sight.
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Post by jenny on Sept 1, 2024 15:34:38 GMT
Bah - can't get the image to post, but if you google "Maine signpost" it will come up.
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Post by jenny on Sept 1, 2024 15:40:18 GMT
We went across the road to our neighbours' house and sat round a firepit with a gin and tonic and snacks on Friday evening, and yesterday evening we went to a garden party with food and wine and music and had a great time. Go us, social butterflies!
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 1, 2024 18:32:35 GMT
Reasonably busy day at "work" despite the forecast storm. It hit just before closing time, so we wondering how long we'd have to wait for a bus up to the car park. I went out and realised there was an enormous queue, so I decided to have a look in the shop. There I bumped into the lady who's 2-in-c at the property who told me to go and find the rest of the house volunteers and she'd sneak us up in her car. I already liked her a lot, but she's even more wonderful now!
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Post by crissdee on Sept 1, 2024 18:47:15 GMT
Back at last from my Western adventures. This was probably the last show of the season, we don't have anymore booked, and frankly we are all so knackered, it would take a pretty substantial payday to get us out again for a while. We picked up another couple of members, so the current line up looks like this: i.gyazo.com/69804deac980a8bfbeea4443b3443833.jpgI have forgotten how to insert images into this forum, and am way too knackered right now to work it out...
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Post by alexanderhoward on Sept 1, 2024 19:05:06 GMT
Finally back home, brought back in style in the cab of a breakdown truck. We were within a few miles of home when we ran over something that ripped a tyre open.
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Post by amanda on Sept 1, 2024 23:57:09 GMT
Had a call at 9am from the school where I should be working, but as I said, I got the initial query sms in mid August, then no confirmation date/start time. I wouldn't be wanting to go in today anyway with being sleep deprived from the wild winds overnight and they continue today.
Due to the weather some schools have closed as well so I wasn't sure if that had happened. There was another storm earlier this year where a tree in the school carpark came down and the power in the suburb was off for at least a day.
And due to the winds continuing, I may not be wanting to go out to the supermarket later once my pay is in the bank at noon or 1 pm. I can't do an online order and if at the school tomorrow, I have to leave home at 6.45 am and can't get shopping on the way there, I'll be late so I'll be without things until the afternoon. Have to take all my food etc to school as there's no canteen and I can't eat anything from those places anyway.
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Post by emily on Sept 2, 2024 14:55:49 GMT
This morning I went for a blood test and it took them three attempts to try to find a vein
I'm not good with needles, so I did freak out quite a bit
This afternoon I was meant to be going with a friend to support her visiting a family grave, but she doesn't want to go so I have the afternoon to myself.
I am doing okay. Yesterday my body just didn't want to play ball. Head ache, tummy ache, nausea, and that was on top of my seizures. Yesterday was not a good day.
Today I am feeling more like myself though and I'm even managing to eat..
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Post by jenny on Sept 2, 2024 18:43:01 GMT
Bank holiday (Labor Day) here today so it's eerily quiet around the neighbourhood, and Woodsman is dozing in his office chair so it's even pretty quiet in here.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 3, 2024 15:39:07 GMT
Headache, tickly throat and feeling drained. Hope I feel slightly better by tomorrow morning as I've got to drop the car off for its MOT and service. At least the garage isn't too far away, but I might have to get Texan s-in-l to give me a lift back home if I'm still feeling rough.
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Post by suze on Sept 3, 2024 16:51:36 GMT
The first day of a new school year is usually the sort of day which ends up with one screaming and craving strong drink.
Today wasn't. This is worrying.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 3, 2024 16:51:50 GMT
Went to the chemist this morning. The walk there and back is less than a mile but it took it right out of me. I'm Donald Ducked.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 3, 2024 17:47:43 GMT
My Better Half was hot and sweaty for several days, and lacking energy. Guess how I am today?
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Post by jenny on Sept 3, 2024 20:23:21 GMT
I went for a swim today and managed forty lengths, but really didn't have the energy for anything more. So I didn't.
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Post by amanda on Sept 4, 2024 10:37:15 GMT
Finally reset that damn password! It seems to need 24 hours from being reset, to accepting a new one but no one tells you this. Stupid system.
Had to go looking for the duty students at the end of Period 1/start Period 2 as they hadn't returned to the library - usually they do and do the next job on the list. Found them at the extreme end of the sports court - they'd picked up a lot of litter which was great but had spent too much time on that one task.
A retired teacher who often comes in when needed and turned up in the library asking if there was any work she could help me with as her meeting wasn't until 1.30 pm.
So I handed her the stack of new books, school stamp and ink pad and cut some contact to size for the books I was doing. Between the two of us, we got those books covered today.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 4, 2024 17:14:12 GMT
Car MOT and service done today. No problems, but I might need new tyres soonish. Thankfully, Texan s-in-l gave me lifts as I'm not sure I feel up to walking even that far fttb.
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Post by jenny on Sept 4, 2024 19:38:53 GMT
I had lunch with a friend at a nice Japanese restaurant. They have a patio area so we sat outside as it was such a lovely day.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 5, 2024 8:59:24 GMT
Still feeling rough, so missing volunteering today. A bit fed up with this!
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Post by amanda on Sept 5, 2024 9:13:23 GMT
I'm fed up with the cold fronts here when we should be looking forward to warmer spring weather. It hurts every nerve in my body. Today was thundery from early when I had to leave for work, and then the rain had set in at hometime. (typical)
Also something with the school laptops made them give error messages, not enough memory etc.
Luckily Thursday is the day the tech is there all day and he's trying to get to the bottom of one issue, while there's something else going on with other things.
Also a laptop was returned with the touchpad damaged, originally just a squiggle across it, scratched in. Still worked though. Somewhere between me seeing it at 3pm yesterday and 1.30 pm today someone has etched the swastika symbol onto the touchpad.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 5, 2024 9:53:26 GMT
It's been exactly a year since I stuck two fingers up at said goodbye to my job.
The weather is shit and there's nothing that needs to be done, so I'm going to mark the occasion by doing nothing!
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Post by crissdee on Sept 5, 2024 10:47:00 GMT
Ironic, as I have about eight applications on hand to find something, anything, that will earn me a regular groat....
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