Hire a lorry and park it outside the authority's gates, letting all the tyres down while you're at it. That'll learn 'em.

O heck, just realised I have to go to Dental hygieneist in half an hour. They are worse than the dentist himself !

Mine's not too bad, plus she gives me loads of that gel stuff so I feel absolutely nothing.

She was OK , I survived , less brutal than the previous one, who seemed to try an excavate your gums witha sharp point ! Gave me a lecture on using an 'interspace' brush

Just went to iron my only smart jacket ready for placement tomorrow.....only to find it isn't even completely dry yet, and is unlikely to be by tomorrow

Fingers crossed it'll be dry enough, but I could do without it being at all wet given that I have a 9 hour day tomorrow!

Aaaaaargh!

Do you have a fan heater? Blowing hot air across at it would help (not directly on it, if it's wool, but just making sure there is warm, dry air passing it).

Failing that, take some of the stuff out of your airing cupboard and hang it in there.

Iron it dry. Just make sure that the steam on the iron is turned off as this method creates enough steam of its own.

Edit: and iron the reverse side so that the side people see doesn't go shiny.

Unfortunately I'm a student in halls so I don't have either - I do have a hairdryer though.......

Flossie, tried that but again, I'm using the iron provided for us so it's a bit pathetic and also my jacket was too damp to be helped much by it. Thankfully it's just the bottom edge/pockets which are a problem though so if I point a hairdryer at it for a while hopefully it'll help!!

Thank goodness for powerful hairdryers!

Hope your placement went well, Pianotastic!

I'm just in a blue mood. I can't say anything halfway intelligent lately. I keep accidentally causing offense... Or if not causing offense, at least being unable to hold a coherent conversation so that I seem cold and standoffish. I don't know why.

It happens.

Try to remember that you can't make people feel offended though, if it happens its because they've allowed you to upset them.

*sends hugs*

A couple of month ago i was asked if I didn't mind not being asked to accompany a young student of mine in his grade 3 sax exam(I'm not his sax teacher) as they were going to ask someone else who'd previously accompanied him. That was fine with me though when I spoke to the person in question a couple of weeks ago it was news to her......
Last week when he came for his clarinet lesson I was told he has a date (just under 2 weeks as of today) and could I accompany.... and by the way they didn't know where the music was.
I said I'd have to have a look to see if I could manage to learn it in time (bearing in mind we'll need a rehearsal).
Having had a brief look at the music thanks to another forum member at weekend I'm not sure that I can manage to do it justice but I was told they'd be dropping it off for me on Sunday
Today I chased it up and pointed out that I'm really not sure that I will be able to learn it in time. It seems they've had to get a new book which had to be ordered and it will be dropped off this evening.
I don't want to let the poor child down but as has been pointed out to me it's his sax teacher's problem.
Me and some other people I've spoken to are a little bemused at the fact that it's got to within two weeks of the exam and the teacher hasn't yet felt it necessary to refer to the piano scores....

after three people leaving at work in the last three months, I'm just sad to see my floor of the office an empty shell of what it used to be. It used to be a real community, and now it's just a job.

(edit: and yes, I'm still thankful to have a job. I'm just mourning the loss of how it used to be.)

AAARRRRRGGGHHHH some petty minded people are winding me up- trying to hold on to a tiny bit of power and so not doing the right thing! It's over something sooooo stupid it's unbelievable!

My sat-nav's maps need updating but the update is going to cost $89!

I worked out that it would cost more to update the sat-nav than to buy a new one!

W

Ditto...

I'm bemused too, sbhoa

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Let's just say I'm seriously annoyed.

So having paid for my nice pint it was handed over in a plastic glass.
"Why the plastic?".
"Because of the football".

Eh? There's no football on the telly, no fans in the pub. But presumably on the premise that any time now the ground is going to empty and they are all going to come in here and start fighting, I have to drink out of plastic. Gah.

Is Britain a theme park for chavvy drunks?

SORRY posted place. Will put it in the right thread in the Teachers forum.

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Hmm, well I'm a 1960s grammar school boy so perhaps I shouldn't comment. But she has to beat all but 99 out of a total of how many?

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First grey hair.

Hmm, yes that sounds a bit tougher than when I did 11 plus. I don't have much time for this "choose what system you want" which local authorities seem be able to apply. I would have thought a national standard would be better so everyone knows what they're getting no matter where they are. Oh and I would make grammar schools part of that national standard

I agree entirely pushpull, I too am a 60's grammar school boy ('58-'64). My school went 'comp' shortly after I left, it went down hill thereafter and is still descending !

There was a power cut earlier today in my flat, as well as the other 2 in my block.

Electricity has been back for 20 minutes now but it was rather annoying.

Mine went comp just as I entered the 6th form so at least I was isolated from the mayhem which quickly took hold of the earlier years.

Didn't sleep very well last night, then burned my finger getting child's croissant out of oven, then whilst running finger under the tap, I thought I'd try to make child a drink, but caught my charging phone and swiped it into a bowl.
This was all before 8am. Not the best day so far.

Obviously I have been doing too many online assessments for graduate scheme applications lately.

I had a dream last night where (instead of a numerical or verbal) I was having to tackle a musical reasoning test... The online test was playing chord progressions, and cadances, and all sorts of other patterns of notes that I had to interpret the significance of. It was horrible!!

(I was never any good at aural tests even when I did my G8 5 years ago! )


Kinda funny on reflection, but I did wake up utterly terrified. The PhD option is becoming increasinly appealing.

I really have had "one of those weeks"...!

First, pretty pooey workwise. Teambuilding efforts remarkably unproductive and looks like I'll be holding the baby when the project comes to an end... . Team behaving like babies, in fact, and all rather embarrassing. Could have spent the week getting an overdue report written. That's how useless most of the week was.

(There were a couple of highlights though - nothing to do with the project - one oboe related )

Then today...

Woke up late to pack because I was so exhausted.
Had a stressful session with colleague in charge of accounts for the work event, who had got herself in a muddle, so late leaving for my plane.
Then the hotel got the bill wrong.
Then the taxi in which I was going to the airport started stalling every 50 yards.
Reached airport only 40 mins before flight.
Total chaos as we were in the world capital of queue jumping...
Running for security check... but hadn't paid tax I didn't know about (only a national flight).
Finally made it onto the tarmac and... wham bam!!! Straight over on my ankle.
Now stranded in another hotel with leg in plaster.
For the third time.
Also third accident/illness in Bolivia and I don't come here that often (five times total).
Just wish I could get the oboe out!!!

Katica - please accept waves of sympathy.

Poor katica Hope your ankle gets better really soon...

Sorry about your dreadful week Katica and I do hope your ankle will soon be better.

My aaaaggghh is that I am totaly demotivated and depressed and frustrated. If anyone wants to know why please read the later posts in the "How many children lean....." in the Teacher's forum. Kerioboe has been very kindly helping me out but I seem to be up against a blank wall. I feel as if the carpet has been pulled out from under my feet.

Sorry to hear about this Katica

I hope things look up soon - will go and read your thread now...

Thank you everyone for good wishes. I hope to get my oboe out later as a consolation and hope they don't chuck me out of the hotel...

yoicks, that's some week. Hope things start to get better.

Train delays meant arriving home an hour and a half late + lack of time + LOTS to be done including interview prep and flute practise. practice.

Think tiredness might mean that a lot ISN'T done. Bleh.

Aw Is the interview imminent?

Hm. I didn't even correctly spell 'practice' in my previous post

Interview is Wednesday.........

I tried to flute practise but I have a cold sore and so it was just pointless as I couldn't even make a sound.

I am going to bed.

Aw ((hugs))

hope tomorrow is better for you and you have a good interview Wednesday

Well, you can't do much with a cold sore : it doesn't change the fact that you're a remarkable flautist, as I'm sure everyone who came to Brum would agree.

Good luck with the interview on Wednesday, Nicki : goodnight.

Thanks both.

I know that the cold sore doesn't change anything but I've not practised properly in nearly a week now. Not good stuff.

Sorry for doom and gloom - the rest of the day was fine, just the end was not.

You won't have lost your fluting ability. Tomorrow's another day : hope it's good all the way through for you.

it's horrid when you don't get the chance to practise when you really want to

my mini scream is that somebody yelled at me today and I can't do a thing about it which puts me somewhere between and

How maddening, Juniper.

for Wednesday nicki_flute

I know it won't but I have limited practice time as it is so need to keep pushing forward.


I know! And then sometimes when you have time to play, you don't want to.

It's not nice when people shout at you


Thanks.