Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

knitwit67

Hi MG

your book has just arrived, thank you There is a lovely photo of a cheeky looking scotish lady on the back, good to see the face behide the wit. personality, brains and looks you just need the money for the whole set now

Sorry can't stop, still got 31 pages and a book to read, see you on the other side:D

Kipper

Thanks for the book MG, it arrived this morning and looks great. Now to get DS to have a look! Have a great day everyone x

kavics17

Memory_Girl wrote: »

nope - you haven't missed a post. still chipping away by doing work for other peoples programmes and having them pay the school charity direct.

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, what a great idea. If you're happy to travel to London than i might be able to help you to organize days like this (even just put up posters in local schools) as I work with children and know plenty of families.

Happy birthday Crickett, enjoy it!

JoS1972

Hi MG and all, I can finally say that I have finished reading your thread (from the start) and think I'm up to date :j, it's only taken me 5 days , thankfully the boss hasn't been in much this week:rotfl:.

Just wanted to say that I count myself lucky to be one of the many that has taken inspiration from you, well in fact all of you, so I hope you don't mind me lurking around.

Right over to the blog I go as I have some serious catching up to do there as well. Thankfully I don't have to de-clutter as we moved a couple of months ago so we de-cluttered before the move, see I'm well on my way already :T.

Karmacat

macgirl wrote: »

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.

More than anything now, I think I was trying to escape the flatness, the boredom...

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"

I don't think I read books at home quite that young - certainly I was never read to. I got to Enid really late - after I'd started reading Harold Robbins books at 10 I loved Little Women, and What Katy Did too

Thanks macgirl! Thanks MG!

macgirl

Yes, I can totally relate to that. My parents were/are great "do-ers" but are not readers - other than newspapers - so there were never many books in the house.
The first time my Dad brought home The Sunday Times because they'd sold out of the People and the News of The World, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! :rotfl:

From Enid I went to Jackie Collins - Quite an education

sistercas

MG just wanted to let you know the book arrived today - thankyou

se999

MG hopefully you've thought of it already, but just wondered about the children's workshops, will you need a CRB check if you don't have one. Also will you need to arrange insurance too.

MrsMoo2U

Afternoon all, It is a beautiful day here so I quite understand why everybody is feeling chirpy.

The geese are heading North above my house and the noise from them set me to smiling as I thought how much they reminded me of all of us here on this thread. Lots of chattering and encouragement to keep up as we set off on our new adventures. I love autumn and the sound of the geese is something I enjoy every year, when I hear them I feel quite excited about what is ahead for them, this year I am excited about what lies ahead for us.

Happy birthday Crickett. I am sorry to say that I have never been to Chatsworth House but it is on my 101 things to do list. Hope you enjoyed it. And breakfast in bed, what better way to start the day?

MG the cards sounds like it could be quite a hoot in the after dinner speech. I also like the idea of memorising the contents of a handbag. Could be some real laughs in that if you pick the right one.

clairewop

Double_Trouble wrote: »

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!

I'm doing something wrong then i'm left handed and stuck on benefits