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Post by tetsabb on Oct 9, 2024 15:56:46 GMT
Sal has posted under her own steam. Back on the ward.
Hurrah!!
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Post by RLDavies on Oct 9, 2024 17:13:29 GMT
Sending as much patented FJL Healing Lyte (TM) as I can spare!
As for me, dammit, I didn't get to sleep until after noon again, so here I sit just starting breakfast at 6 pm. Will need to work on schedules a bit more. The coughing and hacking came back too.
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Post by suze on Oct 9, 2024 17:42:10 GMT
Since today has been a dry day and tomorrow may not be, I did my lap of the school grounds this lunchtime.
While doing my lap, I came across two girls from Year 13 smoking cigarettes in what they thought was an inconspicuous corner of the grounds. You don't actually see that very often any more. Vapes absolutely, but "real" cigarettes no.
Now of course, the cigarettes went behind backs when they saw a teacher approaching, and the girls would have had at least a toe to stand on if they'd argued that they were not strictly on school premises. So I settled for "The thing that I didn't see you doing isn't allowed in school, so go and not do it somewhere else". I was smoking cigarettes (among other things) at that age, so I saw no reason to come down on them like a ton of bricks as some others would have. I trust that they will now repay me by not letting me see it again.
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 9, 2024 19:10:28 GMT
So, suze, not "don't do it, just don't let me catch you doing it"?
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Post by suze on Oct 9, 2024 21:52:51 GMT
It's not my place to tell them not to do it. They'll have had the "smoking is bad" lecture any number of times in their earlier lives, and it's down to no one but themselves if they have chosen not to take any notice of it.
Some pupils in Year 13 are now adults. Here and now in October it's not actually all that many of them. By next June it will be most of them, but I don't have access to their dates of birth. The school office does hold that information, but it would only be given to me on a need-to-know basis. Accordingly, I treat all Year 13 pupils as being adults - which means that they are legally allowed to smoke if they choose to.
They still can't do it at school, because school rules don't allow it. By-the-by, there probably ought to be a place within school where those who are old enough may smoke - there is such a place for staff - but there isn't. But I'm not going to bust anyone's arse over it, especially not when it's a little bit grey as whether the place where they were doing it is really part of the school premises. So I said "Ahem", and those particular pupils ought to know that when I say "Ahem" I don't expect to do it twice.
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Post by celebaelin on Oct 9, 2024 22:06:46 GMT
Little known fact (AFAIK) - carbon monoxide (from smoke - or anywhere else for that matter) has 200x the affinity for haemoglobin that oxygen has.
That means it's very bad for you btw; obviously oxygen transport becomes severely limited as a result.
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Post by efros on Oct 9, 2024 22:33:19 GMT
Last resort treatment for CO poisoning is massive blood transfusions. Essentially RBCs that have been exposed to CO are permanently out of action and so need to be replaced with fresh ones.
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Post by amanda on Oct 10, 2024 2:42:54 GMT
suze wrote:
At my school there is no such place for staff and as a result they have to leave the premises entirely - laws brought in here a number of years ago - and be discreet about it.
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Post by suze on Oct 10, 2024 17:12:23 GMT
That may well come to pass here as well. The new government has signaled an intention to introduce new smoking laws, which would include an absolute ban on smoking on school and hospital premises. That legislation hasn't appeared yet - maybe next year, the runes have it - but there have been recent suggestions that it may not ultimately be as far-reaching as originally planned, so we'll have to wait and see what's in it.
Schools here are certainly under no obligation to provide a smoking area for staff, and an increasing number of schools don't. That mine does is partly because the governing body was for a time dominated by UKIP, and partly because of an accident in layout. There used to be a cottage on site so that the Head Caretaker could live in. That used to be standard in an era when school caretakers were very often ex-Armed Forces and didn't have homes of their own, but while some schools still have such accommodation it's no longer usual. The cottage was "knocked down before it fell down, twenty-ish years ago" (that's what I was told when I asked once) and the place where it once stood is now where the bins are, but what used to be the caretaker's garden is immediately behind the main staff room and cannot be accessed or seen except from the staff room.
Over the years, some paving has been laid and a couple of pub-type wooden benches have appeared, and that is the staff smoking area. Teachers are asked not to broadcast its existence to pupils - that's that being discreet, I suppose - but it's not actually a secret. While most pupils will never go into the main staff room, some occasionally do - and any who do will notice the "courtyard", as it is usually known. How many smokers there are among the current staff I don't really know. Half a dozen maybe, not much more.
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 10, 2024 18:52:42 GMT
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Post by amanda on Oct 10, 2024 21:49:28 GMT
Re the smoking here, that is why the city streets are now full of smokers outside every office door. And a number of places/buildings have had to erect signs asking people to basically not congregate in the main entry area, blocking access for others.
As well as those building workers, there are also the homeless and others who gather and smoke anywhere.
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Post by suze on Oct 10, 2024 21:54:58 GMT
As I learned from the BBC wireless on my way home, that is England's highest score in a test match since 1938 when they made 903 against the Upside Down lot.
It's only the fourth time that a team has ever reached 800 in a test match, and three of the four have been made by England: 823 today, 849 in Jamaica in 1930, and 903 against the Upside Downs in 1938. The best the Upside Downs have ever managed is 758, but the highest total of all was 952 made by Sri Lanka against India in 1997.
On that occasion, Sri Lanke declared at tea on the fifth day with the score on 952 for 6 in reply to India's 537. Apparently they had a team meeting and decided not to bat for another hour to reach one thousand since most of the spectators had already gone home, and there was a gentlemen's agreement that India needn't bother coming out to bat for the last rites of the game.
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 11, 2024 9:39:17 GMT
And England win by an innings and 47. So many records. First time that a side has made over 500 in the first innings, only to lose by an innings.
I imagine TGH is a very happy bunny.
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Post by celebaelin on Oct 11, 2024 12:04:53 GMT
I saw the 823 for 7 dec. on the TV in the pub and just blurted out "Bloody hell!" (or some such). The fact that it was a declaration may have been a clue but I wasn't expecting anything other than a draw tbh.
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 11, 2024 15:27:45 GMT
The Pakistan batting seems to have been less than robust second tome around.
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Post by suze on Oct 11, 2024 17:45:00 GMT
It certainly was! Pakistan did bat one short in the second innings because one player was unwell (he is in the hospital with "an illness which is not Covid", it is reported), but that guy is not a batter anyway.
The Second Test next week is at the same ground, and TGH reckons that it might be in Pakistan's interests to play it on the same pitch. It's not going to rain - it doesn't in that part of Pakistan - so pick seven spinners and it might be turning a bit by the tenth day! This seems unlikely to happen, but you never quite know in Pakistan.
The good man also thinks that Pakistan were probably hoping for a dull draw with hardly any wickets falling over five days. They're not very good at test matches at the moment, and that may be about the best they can hope for against England. Incidentally, their current test match captain is more or less English. He was born in Kuwait, but he went to an English public school and an English university, lives in Lincolnshire, and considers English his first language and Urdu his fourth.
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 11, 2024 18:25:05 GMT
Hmmm. We do not currently have a dedicated cricket thread.
<Scuttles off to remedy this shortfall>
And a rugby one, too.
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Post by efros on Oct 11, 2024 19:05:15 GMT
Well I took a personal day today as the rest of the faculty is having a workshop which as I approach retirement I am less than interested in. Just as well I took the day as my wife is in currently either having a major fibromyalgia flare up or kidney stone issues. Currently not sure which, but a trip to the hospital may be in our future, the pain she is describing is more focused than the usual stuff she gets from fibromyalgia and it is focused in the base of her back. She's not one who is easily persuaded so I may have to call reinforcements in the form of the daughters. Finnegan has decided that he too needs some attention and he just had a massive seizure. He's been on medication for the last 3 months and that seemed to be working until today. He took about 10 minutes to come out of it and he seems to be okay now, absolutely knackered but okay. Not the long weekend I had planned.
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Post by crissdee on Oct 11, 2024 20:23:48 GMT
Best wishes to all in the Efros menage, whether human or canine...
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Post by amanda on Oct 12, 2024 5:21:05 GMT
After sorting out more books on the bedroom shelves (removing some to boxes in the garage), I finally decided to reprint that extensive list on a software program originally started by a Dutchman.
959 books, 49 A4 pages......
And spent some time in the spare room, more tidying, throwing stuff out and two empty boxes into the garage.
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Post by crissdee on Oct 12, 2024 10:34:20 GMT
Going to be a relatively short one, as I cba to get out of bed this morning till nearly 11.00, and felt like cr*p when I did. Blocked nose and a chesty cough, off to the chemist later to get some medicine. Fortunately, the chemist (like just about every business in Builth) is a five minute walk away...
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Post by Bondee on Oct 12, 2024 10:40:28 GMT
Have to do do some sorting myself today. My aunty and uncle are moving to a smaller house so they've told the family to "come and take what you want". I need to clear some space in the living room for the sideboard and remove an old chest of drawers so I can replace it with a new(er) chest of drawers.
I've also claimed any records they don't want to keep. My uncle's a big fan of The Who and they both like The Beatles so I'm hoping there'll be a few gems.
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Post by amanda on Oct 12, 2024 10:53:33 GMT
My neighbour has again gone by train to the Victorian/New South Wales border town she hails from, to keep helping clearing out her late mother's house.
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 12, 2024 17:01:32 GMT
linkWe do get some cracking skyscapes
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Post by efros on Oct 12, 2024 18:06:30 GMT
Well the good wife appears to be on the mend, we're still not sure what it was and she tells me the remainder of the pain is now in her leg. She thinks fibromyalgia although I think sciatica at least we are both agreeing that it's unlikely to be a kidney stone. She's still less than fully mobile but there's less exclamations as she moves around. Finnegan has been a very quiet boy today and is still a bit knackered from his 'turn' yesterday. He went outside this morning for his regular pee/poop walk, he got a taste of the wind and the amount of debris flying around and his OCD about picking just the right spot to 'bless' completely disappeared. Fastest I've seen that dog complete his toilet since he was a pup.
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Post by amanda on Oct 12, 2024 21:30:03 GMT
Just think I invented a new word - thill. 'That will', from typing too fast in the morning on a FB post.
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Post by amanda on Oct 13, 2024 10:32:08 GMT
More tidying up the spare room - utilised one of the emptied boxes for my newly bought jigsaws, opened and started the Melbourne map one bought yesterday from an op shop for just $6.
Also tackled the items in the plastic 'chester' (drawers) - throwing out some of those things and putting other things together in the same drawer with their similar items.
I now have a clear passage way through to the table in the spare room. Still got to tackle the pile of mess in front of the wardrobe but another day....
Then this afternoon I realise the neighbour's jasmine plant in a pot that I upsized awhile ago, has gone from 'a few dead looking bits' to 'needs urgent repotting now'.
Daylight saving allows for this now so that's what I did from 6 - 7pm. Also watered all my backyard pots and the neighbour's main plants too.
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Post by crissdee on Oct 13, 2024 10:34:41 GMT
Better than yesterday, but still not 100%....
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 13, 2024 11:44:37 GMT
In the group on FB where we suggest band names, someone posted 'tiramisunami'
I think that is how I want to die.
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Post by RLDavies on Oct 13, 2024 20:11:24 GMT
My attempt to get my schedule back to normal failed after about two days because there's still too much work. I'm back to the irregular schedule of crashing out whenever a job is completed, which in the latest case was noon today. I didn't mean to sleep eight hours, either, but here I am having breakfast at 9 pm. I have overnight to finish the next job, which I'd really rather spend two days on. So I'd better get weaving.
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