General Chat

*sigh! and the screaming and shouting on the buses..... And that is just the mothers.

I loved school holidays. My children got back to normal and stopped quoting teachers, It was less expensive and we had the best of times. I hated them going to school to pick up nasty habits.....Sigh! Them wos the days.

Hey! I love school hols I work at a school but have to admit to saying when my kids were young, break up tomorrow oh God how do I entertain the kids for six weeks. It's much easier in school where you have a strict regime,Elaine.

Young mothers can't control their buggies with one child, imagine the carnage on the pavements when they are not even trying to control the other small satellites.

I cracked a pair of fat ankles last week with third best crutch when two teen mothers were blocking the pavement outside the bank.

Oh the joys of being oldish and grumpy :-))

Sue x

Edit: the fat ankles were NOT mine before Hayley suggests they were!

Sorry Sue but we need them holidays x

Nooooooo you don't Mel, you should have 4 weeks plus bank holidays like everyone else...lol

Plus all inset days (otherwise known as teachers' shopping days should be outlawed). Any bloomin' excuse to land kids on us!

LOL we still have to work we just don't have to go to work besides we ar mentally exhausted but this time I do agree 4 weeks is enough but give it us bk at half terms x

we work continentals on training days so we have to be in very early plus we do 4 twilights a year when we leave v late and for the last 14 weeks its been 8 til 6.30 every day for me x

Aaah but that's your career choice...lol

yes it is n the holidays come with that choice x

oooo I am not sure I would want a mentally exhausted person teaching my children......gotta be a law against it!

Edit: I deleted the above,,,posted twice.

What about mentally exhausted people in middle age? Have pity woman, anyway your kids are a bit past school..lol

** opens gob and closes it very quickly **

Just as well by the sounds of it lol (To what Sue said, not Hayley)

Edit...Twas me wot deleted again...tsk!

and people say I twitch Susan...lol

Hayley I admire your restraint ;-)

I worked in a special school... all the children had challenging behaviour and learning difficulties, residential... so I did classroom and pastoral hours... ie, I was in charge in the evening, the teacher during school hours, and we worked alongside each other. We worked 26 hour shifts, which included sleeps, but we rarely got a full night.

Now, I loved it, and yes, I was exhausted by the time holidays came... we had a 42 hour week... but..... 3 weeks into the holidays at summer, I was ready to go back to work!! And yes, I had prep work for the coming term/year... I had to tie in the evening activities with the work each individual child was doing in class so needed to work closely with ALL the teachers, as my group would come from right across the age range... 5 to 11. Plus the challenges their behaviours presented as well... but I was ready to go back.

*sighs* them were the days, lolol

You are a veritable curmudgeon, Sue, that is all I can say... now go and find a steady supply of salmon..... be nice to fishermen ;¬))

Love

Daff xxxx

I say double the time they are off then myself and all my neighbors will be able to get access to our properties without having to arrange going in and out by school hours, due to irresponsible people double parking and blocking driveways.

And yes we were here before the school.

I think the staff in schools need that break, I know when I worked in schools we did, so did the children, my choice to work in a school I know but I did so because it meant that I would be off in the holidays to care for my children so they wouldnt be running wild annoying the auld neighbours :)))

Hurrrumph!

During the hols we ferried our kids to the beach, swimming pool, museums, theme parks etc., etc., plus they had their own hobbies at home and they had to help with the animals, they did NOT roam the streets causing havoc. That came later at Uni..lol

I have the right to be grumpy and I will be :-))

Sue x