Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

Off to the Red Lion for a pint or two :beer:

See you all soon!

See, wheezy has all the important lingo down pat.

zagubov

Wheezy wrote: »

Off to the Red Lion for a pint or two :beer:

See you all soon!

Is it on the website for westie-friendly pubs?:D

lostinrates

My house has come into its own...dh air conditioned office is hot, outside is hot....my house, cool and airy. . I think my house must have the soul of a house from a hot country!

zagubov

Davesnave wrote: »

So are some of you saying we should return to the days when all the special needs kids were tidied away into their own schools?

I'm all for specialist teaching, but I like to see it alongside the 'normal' run of the mill stuff, so the kids learn to rub along with their fellows wherever possible. Yes, there can be conflicts and friction, but I see that as educative for all concerned. Children are remarkably good at coping with others' challenging behaviour, when they understand the reasons behind it.

Of course, I recognise it's a spectrum, but many of the special kids I met turned out to be not that demanding, if their needs were met. Quite often, I was able to use the support teachers for more than just looking after those particular kids, bringing others into the frame, so having them there benefited all.

Not especially. DS's first school was a mainstream state school and full of thoughtful patient staff who were young and enthusiastic teachers. Nevertheless, some mornings getting him inside the door was difficult.

In his first private school, half the teachers were dyslexia-trained and half the students had dyslexia and the others didn't (many were siblings of the ones who had it). A few like DS had dyslexia and aspergers or just aspergers on its own. Technically it was a mainstream school but the newspapers treated it as "special needs".

When it closed we were lucky to find a similar one but much further away and more pricey. It's technically mainstream but many of the students have challenges to face.

Can't imagine the state he would be in if he'd continued where he was. Also can't imagine where we'd be able to find the energy reserves to cope with it either.:o

Davesnave

Just had a site notice through relating to our planning application:

"Due to staff shortages, I would be grateful if you could display this notice adjacent to the site on the public highway so that it is easily visible to members of the public wishing to view it."
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I laminated it first.

Was tempted to add a note at the bottom: "For the special attention of Mr & Mrs Wxxxxan," because they are our resident NIMBYs, but I restrained myself. :A

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Just had a site notice through relating to our planning application:

"Due to staff shortages, I would be grateful if you could display this notice adjacent to the site on the public highway so that it is easily visible to members of the public wishing to view it."
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I laminated it first.

Was tempted to add a note at the bottom: "For the special attention of Mr & Mrs Wxxxxan," because they are our resident NIMBYs, but I restrained myself. :A

Oh, how funny. Still, i wouldn't have had the gaul to put purs where the council did.....on my neighbours land, up a track ( private) where nobody but the cows could see it!:rotfl:

Davesnave

That's what I like about living around here; it's very hands-on. :cool:

Just relieved that I dug the holes to expose the foundations before the current spell of dry weather. It's like rock down there now.

I suppose someone will come and inspect the foundations.......

CKhalvashi

Wheezy wrote: »

We still have to watch Tuesday's semi-final, it's taped on the freeview recorder.

That's how we watch Eurovision. We never watch it live, always recorded. Zap through all the yapping inbetween until we see a country flag appear, then watch 30 seconds of the song, mutually agree it's crap and zap to the next one.
You can watch a 2.5 hour program in 20 minutes that way.

Oh, and remember guys, you’re voting 11

CKhalvashi

GDB2222 wrote: »

Linky includes your postcode. You may want to remove that.

It’s not my postcode

Wheezy_2

CKhalvashi wrote: »

It’s not my postcode

Yes but, yes but...it must be somebody's postcode!