Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd February 2009

fedupandskint

Sorry to say no flying for me today as promised, due to a car accident this morning. I am now sat here with whiplash very uncomfortably and no car. I really want my car back in one piece but I am more glad me and the other driver are in one piece each

Good job I kept up to date last week with flying so the house is still relatively clean!

Creaking towards tomorrow, will see how it goes then

Mudbath

Toots - I didn't know you could read puppy STRIPES, that's really clever, is it a bit like reading tea leaves:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: !!

It's still snowing here....I think the teachers all live too close to hope for a snow day though. In USA my sister's school gives snow days but adds them to the end of the term so you break up later. No-one wants snow days over there!!

I'm going to another 60 in 60 if anyone wants to join me xx

lil_me

fedupandskint ((hugs)) hope you are feeling better soon x

msgnomey always 2 sides to that one, my friend a police officer was unable to go to work as their childrens school was closed today, they had no childcare 9-3.30 when Grandma collects them. Unfortunately school closures tend to cause chaos in many ways and I always believe regardless of their job (I went to do a voluntary one today) if it's safe enough to travel, people should as everyone has their role to play. If it's too dangerous (I also had to go across snow filled top roads and 180 degree span my car twice) then maybe they should consider not opening but sometimes I do wonder why some places close completely. Places like Canada deal with weather so much better because they have to. Of course we all have our own opinion based on experiences.

Flylady_Flower

pigpen wrote: »

I think it is disgusting schools are closed because of a bit of snow.. honestly there used to be feet of snow and staff and children still got in.. such pansies!!!

We were saying the same today - used to have to walk to school in all sorts - only time we got a day off was if the heating broke or it flooded - didn't even get teacher training days - they did that in the school hols... We were hard done by eh! :rotfl:

Mudbath

fedupandskint wrote: »

Sorry to say no flying for me today as promised, due to a car accident this morning. I am now sat here with whiplash very uncomfortably and no car. I really want my car back in one piece but I am more glad me and the other driver are in one piece each

Good job I kept up to date last week with flying so the house is still relatively clean!

Creaking towards tomorrow, will see how it goes then

Hope you're ok - put your feet up and strictly no flying!! Gentle hugs to you xx

carol22_2

Mudbath - I will! Maybe 30 in 30 though as Aunt Flo is visiting and I feel yack. Can't do much for very long.

toottifrootti

fedupandskint take it easy and rest - hope you are not to sore tomorrow.

mudbath - I treated myself to 4 different 'tarts' today!! i will join you and see what paper I can fling!
toots xx

serena

froddington and vivw - very jealous, as my school didn't close today! To be fair, there was the merest dusting of snow there. We had some here, but happily not the amount thay had forecast overnight, or I would have rung in sick... From the house, the road slopes down, then turns sharp right and up - it also faces north, so if we have just a light dusting, it's a lethal ice rink. No problem once I reach the main road, just can't get there! Anyway, we always get the message that the school is closed for pupils, but we are expected to turn up either at our own school or report in to the nearest one.

I remember the snow 18 years ago vividly. I was back at work after DS1, and Mum was looking after him here for three days a week. I was sent home on the Thursday lunchtime, and Mum would have left the following morning, but the snowplough came round, and piled up so much snow behind her car that she was here for a week!

cazzie I've lit a candle for Chloe and her parents

msd - I've lit another candle for Tristan and you

Okay, not much flying here - the teens were home (I didn't send them in, as no-one here to pick them up if sent home early - the school closed at lunchtime) and amazingly enough, they built a fantastic snowman, finished all the hot chocolate and marshmallows, but didn't do the washing up...okay, so I've cooked dinner and washed up. I'm home tomorrow, so will do the ground floor then. I also want to make a start on the curtains this week.

eta - hugs for fedupandskint - really glad that you're okay.

toochoosey

(((((hugs))))) to fedupandskint hope you feel better soon.
Just got a text from welsh teacher and I THINK (she text it in welsh!!!)that there is no class tomorrow, cause of the snow!!!!! (She lives up the valleys and is usually nigh on impossible to get to or from there in this weather!!!!)

pigpen

msgnomey wrote: »

The problem is that many school staff no longer live close to the schools they teach in and have to travel down treacherous, dangerous untreated side roads in order to get to and from school. I live on a main road and can go via main roads all the way to school so can always get there but some of our staff do not, why should they put their lives at risk to do what is really a non-essential job? Not like a nurse or a police man for example.

When the police are saying don't travel unless your journey is essential I guess I don't think baby sitting half my class because the rest of the parents have stayed home and had a 'snow day' with their kids is really essential.

Just my POV

but most of the parents I know had to stay home because the teachers didn't go in to work so the children missed a valuable days teaching.. they should live closer to their place of employment.. same as everyone else.. That would save fuel therefore money and carbon emissions.. noone should be allowed to live further away from their place of employment than 3 miles.. half an hours walk is plenty.. and good exercise!!

I rather snottily told a teacher at school I wished I could afford to live in a little satellite village where the house prices were £300k+ (she was whining about pay/children/driving to work etc.. silly me thought people went into teaching to enlighten children)

I missed a college session tonight due to the snow.. what snow???.. it's almost all gone.. there was only a sprinkling up here anyway..