Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

butafli

Morning

Happy birthday Crickett - sounds like it is filled with loveliness. MG I received my book (erm my DD's book) this morning so I have until 4pm before she wrestles it off me! I transferred your money earlier this week so hopefully you have it Enjoy your Fridays everyone.

Cheery_Daff

7 minutes, absolute pants indeed! :rotfl: :rotfl: Do you know how long it would take the rest of us??? :eek: :rotfl:

Firewalker

Memory_Girl wrote: »

i have decided that to make the last £3500 i am going to run some weekend study courses for ages 10 plus at the school - but i guess a local church hall or something would work just as good.

having looked at what tutors charge, have settled on £80 per student, with a book, a day with a mind mapping world champion and memory expert, mindmapping materials provided on the day and access to the on-line course thats been developed for reviews afterwards.

this will allow me to get fully back to speed, help some kids greatly and pay the school the money for ds1's education. TBH i know that one of the other parents has just seperated and she is truggling as shes living only on a bursary (shes in her last year at medical school) so if i can manage to drum up enough interest i would love to pay her ds's fees this year too so that she can get back on her feet.

so looking at running days or so with 15 kids in each, aged 10 and upwards in local halls - cheap, and quick - and doable i hope:D

MG

MG, this is good - in fact more than good. I am reading it and you are warming my heart. It is useful (for the children), it is generous (fee is too low but this time I am not grumbling about it), by getting stronger you are helping others get stronger (Medical student mum).

It is highly ethical and it will make you feel like a million bucks - which is coming to you next. This is the kind of enterprise I am ready to support with all I've got.

Well done!

Firewalker

macgirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm so pleased I found this thread!

The latest challenge - well, what made me passionate, was escape. On my bike (when I was 7) or into books (from age about ten months, apparently).
Well, off to do the mundane things, so I can step up to the extraordinary things later on.
xxx

This is the same for me - word for word. I wasn't trying to run away from anything I don't think, but I always had the feeling I wanted to go somewhere more exciting and that somehow I was born in the wrong place.

Books certainly provided that for me - I was an avid Enid Blyton fan from a young age and it was the escapism that I truly cherished. My 6 year old is a very good reader, but doesn't enjoy it - yet. I'm trying to find something to hook her in. At the moment we're (well, I'm) reading Little Women and she loves it, but won't read it herself....one day perhaps.

It's such a lovely thread MG - thanks and lol about the "movie"

macgirl

Firewalker wrote: »

MG, this is good - in fact more than good. I am reading it and you are warming my heart. It is useful (for the children), it is generous (fee is too low but this time I am not grumbling about it), by getting stronger you are helping others get stronger (Medical student mum).

It is highly ethical and it will make you feel like a million bucks - which is coming to you next. This is the kind of enterprise I am ready to support with all I've got.

Well done!

Firewalker

Yes, here, here :T:T:T

I missed that post, as I'm reading backwards through the pages. That is so good of you MG to consider such a generous offer when you are trying to get your own family out of difficulty aswell.

As FW said - it is coming to you next - you are growing day by day and it's so heart warming to witness :A

Double_Trouble

Haven't checked the new challenge yet although I can guess what it is from the posts on her as last night I had a bath thought I would lie on the bed to cool off that was about 7.30 fell asleep until this morning :eek:

Caught part of a programme this morning on radio 4 about pay it amused me as we are trying to up our hourly rate

Women earn less than men - surprise surprise
Ugly people earn less than normal looking people especially ugly men
Tall people earn more about 2 1/2% for every inch
Left handed people earn more especially in top earners
Lesbians earn more
Gay men earn less
People with tidy homes earn more (who's going to do some more decluttering :rotfl:)
Think that was all I heard
Also if you earn £51K or more you are in the top 10% of earners

So as a short, ugly, right-handed, heterosexual, untidy woman I might as well give up now

Only joking honest :rotfl:I am not short not going to say anything about the rest

As I think most of us on here are women I think it is our duty to sort out the imbalance and I am certainly aiming to be in the top 10%

DTxx


Forgot to say Happy Birthday Crickett - I love Chatsworth used to have a boyfriend who took me there lots of weekends had to chuck him he never left a tip at restaurants and I couldn't cope with the embarassment!

macgirl

And you're not ugly either - anyone reading your diary knows that

That was funny DT, the only thing in my favour is I'm left-handed - must start wearing 6" heels to work at all times

Firewalker

Double_Trouble wrote: »

Women earn less than men - surprise surprise
Ugly people earn less than normal looking people especially ugly men
Tall people earn more about 2 1/2% for every inch

Also if you earn £51K or more you are in the top 10% of earners

DTxx

Hi DT, highly objectionalbe I think - female university professors earn about 17% less than men. Also, there was this management consultant guy about 20 years ago who said that the world is run by tall men with hair (OK they are probably also left handed).

Top 10% is good - top 1% even better is what I say. But percentages are problematic. I think that everyone should have access to so much that it does not matter that someone has more.

Women of the World unite!

Firewalker

Memory_Girl

6 minutes 22 seconds - yay - go me!!! i will keep practcing though.

girded my loins and went to see if, by some miracle the ctc peeps had got sorted and had made me a payment - but nada.

Grrrr!!!! but even that can't dent my happy mood today.

off to take the school swimming in a moment - so have a great afternoon and i will catch up with you all later.

mg

tellmeitsfriday

Lies, dam lies and statistics..

Love it (I wonder if being tall and ugly offset each other )