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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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My VIth form maths teacher was an oboe player who signed on as a music teacher. The day he arrived they told him they'd changed their minds and he'd be teaching A Level maths.
I felt sorry for him: he told us one day he was one chapter ahead of us in the text book. He was flipping useless as a maths teacher though.
My Dad was a French and German teacher.
One year, some pupils expressed an interest in learning Russian. He did explain that he would be only one chapter ahead of them in the textbook, and on that basis they were all happy to go ahead with it. I can never remember whether any of them passed their GCE though!0 -
My Dad was a French and German teacher.
One year, some pupils expressed an interest in learning Russian. He did explain that he would be only one chapter ahead of them in the textbook, and on that basis they were all happy to go ahead with it. I can never remember whether any of them passed their GCE though!
What did he do for pronunciation and idioms and figures of speech? It must have been a horrifically scary undertaking! Self taught is one thing (my father self taught at least one of his languages) but self taught while teaching people depending on you would be terrifying!0 -
F@&$ing ute. He just deliberately cut me up. I went straight over the drain. 1 burst tyre and missing my morning meeting. It was completely deliberate. I'm fine thankfully but what a [insert noun of choice].0
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Doozergirl wrote: »I really like food
I eat nothing else myself!
neverdespairgirl wrote: »We're often asked . . . sometimes asked . . . somebody asked me once - why don't you write a song about flying? It's not a bad idea, really. Swan and I have had to do quite a lot of flying lately - by air - and I must say it's rather marvelous when you think of it, isn't it, that, you know, if you want to go to New York, say, instead of lying about for days on end, like in a sort of floating Selfridges, doing nothing, eating far too much, all you have to do is just jump on a plane, seventeen miles outside London at two o' clock in the morning. You'll be . . . you can be in New York too late for breakfast and just in time to go to bed at noon. Doesn't take your physical body more than about a week to catch up with this.
Priceless! :beer:PasturesNew wrote: »You can't lose with sweets
I remember one Xmas there was a present that was a small/plastic Cadbury's miniature chocolates vending machine. You put a big 1d coin in and got a miniature out....
That wasn't an aunt/uncle present; no idea where that one came from.
Had one too!There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
F@&$ing ute. He just deliberately cut me up. I went straight over the drain. 1 burst tyre and missing my morning meeting. It was completely deliberate. I'm fine thankfully but what a [insert noun of choice].
You hadn't just asked him what he'd do with an unlimited pot of money and three weeks in which to spend it had you?
Seriously, glad you are ok......better the tyre than you.0 -
I'm listening to the wind and wondering if my electric fencing is going to be standing up in the morning:(0
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Sorry to hear that Gen - at least you aren't hurt....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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On the Flanders and Swann theme, I used to like, but cannot remember anything of, Tom Lehrer.:(0
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I don't like food at the moment. People eat so much disgusting-smelling yucky stuff!
Today I've had raw carrots and lots of strawberries.
On the bright side, by this stage with Isaac, I'd ended up on a drip twice, and I'm nowhere near dehydration this time. But I loathe feeling sick all the time, and hate actually being sick, too.
<whinge mode off>
We've told Isaac, now - his initial reaction was very, very negative. In fact, he suggested foster-care, for the baby, rather than for him. A couple of days later, and he's seemingly quite excited, though....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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