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apple_muncher

Hey Habi!

Great to see you! I'm sure my witterings make me sound busier than I really am... But I'll admit that 4 days a week in the classroom is not my ideal I stepped in to do a favour for 2 terms, and am already definitely doing 3 from Sept onwards. Dd is mightily relieved. So am I.

Re the workouts, I guess I'm used to the names now. Today's was called 'bodyweight bombshell' which makes me feel very Marilyn Monroe. It consisted of dragon kicks, jump lunges, pike jumps and reptile pushups. I wonder what images that conjures up for you... Someone offered to buy me a crash helmet on another thread!

The NSD count is all very positive so far, which gives a warm, smug feeling. Plus the challenge of finding 6 bday pressies for a total of under £60 is fun. I have ideas, just need to clarify what I already have and what I need to acquire/make.

Work is good, thanks. I'm in a lovely school and the pupils are usually gorjus. The y11, 12, 13 go on study leave at the end of this week, so I'll have a reduced teaching load for a few weeks :T. It seems that next year I may have y10, 11, 12, 13. Now that would be a dream! However, I somehow don't expect the final timetable to be quite like that.

Having done 3 ZWOWs in 3 days, I'm going to NOT exercise tomorrow. Dh will do dd in the morning, so I shall leave early and get in a pre-school walk. Even 15 mins'll be nice. Tho the forecast is pretty rotten...

Right, off to ensure a certain young lady does some spellings.

davefairbrother

Hi
I need some help with a accident my brother has had at work.. He is 55 years old and a lorry driver, he recently fell from the lorry as the handle he was holding to get off broke, He unfortunately broke/fractured his hip, fractured arm and caused stress/injury to his eye/eye socket
The Accident happend around 7 weeks ago and is he obviously off sick, His employer is paying his wages and now with the type of injury he has i strongly doubt he will ever be able to drive a lorry again, can we seek compensation from now to his retirement age? Surely no one with a fractured hip/arm which has had metal bolts added to can be expected to drive for 8-10 hours and jump in and out of lorries ?

Please can someone advise what he should do here? Will we get compensation for the injuries and for the future? surely he cannot be expected to find another job in another trade with his injuries and at his age?

Please can you help and it will be strongly appreciated, we are stressed and have a mortgage to pay which he worries about if his employer stops paying him
Also do we need to advise health and safety ?

apple_muncher

Davefairbrother, sorry to hear about your brother. I'm afraid I can't give any advice, but I'm sure there will be someone who can. My thread isn't read much, so you probably need to post on another one - have a mooch on the forum and see is there is one about claims/accidents. All the best.

apple_muncher

Today was one stressed out day! But tis all over and done now, thank goodness. And i didn't reach for the sugar, as it woild have sent me too far over, with all the adrenaline that was flooding roind my system.

Stopped off to post a coupls of exam bits - need receipts so can claim it back - so skipped round 3 ch shops. Got a RM book for dd for 40p, a pencil case with felt tips in for 50p and a white necklace for 50p too. Worth breaking a NSD for £1.40? Yep indeedy, as the pencil case and necklace are presents for dd's good friend's bday. Bargainous items!

So dd's friend and my dad are sorted for presents. Just another of dd's friends, 2 good friends of mine and my sister to do now! The challenge was to do them all for under £60. Can't recall how much dad's stuff cost, so am counting it as 0! £7 spent so far on white choc mint fudge ingredients, with maybe another £2 needed... Friend 1 may get some lovely 'friend' poems which I may type up and make credit card size, and laminate, to keep in her purse, or use as bookmarks. Friend 2 is trickier. And my sis just wants to not feel so poorly and full of lurgi! Oh yes, and £7 on dd's friend 1 so far.

Knitting got undone - successfully done, if I may be so smug. And is now creeping back to the previous number of rows.

Tea still to prepare - dd is doing her school reading book - silently! to me. Dh not home yet. Exam admin to be done later on. Tea should be emough for tomorrow's lunch too, umless we get too greedy... But tomorrow is weighing day to see if the scales still wish to be my
friend!

Today I am grateful that I found what I had lost, that there was mo queue at the PO, that I found such lovely bits in the ch shops, that soooooo many pupils were ready to help me look for what I'd lost,and that we have a freezer full of food!

apple_muncher

More exam bumf posted today couldn't get free parking so 'had' to spend £5 in !celand. Got a VIENETTA - a mint one - for my bday tea next week!

Also got me a blouse for work, another RM book for dd and 4 as-new wombles books that will work as presents. Total of £8.26.

Happy to have got to Friday. It was leavers day so sad y11s off on study leave. It was nice for them to have decent weather for their barbecue, but they then hung around for ages and we had to shoo them away! They are all back on Mon for an exam, but I guess it's not quite the same.

Dh is out tonight, so am hoping for a peaceful evening... Just need dd to fall asleep quickly. Might also make some white choc mint fudge to take in to work on Mon for my bday. Will also take apples. Hmmmm. Wonder which will disappear first...?

Have had 2 spendy days on the trot and neither was necessary, so will go and sit on the naughty step and ponder my misdemeanour, to ensure it doesn't keep happening. But we do need gf bread for dd (my fault) and have a £2.25 off a £15 shop. So will send dh tomorrow with a strict list...

apple_muncher

After a late start - only woke up at 8.45! I took dd to tap + ballet, which she really enjoyed for once. Got a wash done without breaking the machine. Made some choc fudge to take to work on mon. Did some admin for exam marking.

Dh made dd's bfast plus our lunch, and is now preparing tea. I'm spoiled.

Another TT to mortgage - think this is more impotant than splitting it with savings at the mo. Really, really want to see it below £70k but know we'll have to wait for June's payday for this...

Picnic - indoors - after church tomorrow. So I've hbed some eggs already and will do our packed lunches later.

apple_muncher

:j And I've finished the front of the jumper! :j

apple_muncher

Another late start for dd. She was quite under the weather, just laying in bed with us watching tv - not like our bouncy bundle of energy. So i dosed her with calpo1 and we skipped church. She's since perked up, but is unwilling to leave the house!

I cut her hair this morning - and paid over a tenner to the mortgage. I'm better at saving money than making it, i think.

Dd is drooling over the 'laminated book of tears' planning how to spend her money - when she has enough/any to spend!

Have been through our presents stash to try to allocate things to people, and have found 1 thing for tricky friend - yippee - and playcom have exactly what I was looking for for easier-to-buy-for friend. Still in my basket, though!

2 batches of fudge got made, to add to gifts and to take to work tomorrow.

Back of jumper has been started :T. 2 stripes done so far; 28 to go .

Workout completed, tho I bottled out of the original planned one when I saw how long it would take me. That one can wait til Tues.

Although our ice castle - from Frozen, started in Jan - remains a blue-painted box, I'm proud to say that dd has made her own Pixie Hollow :T. Just need Tinkerbell to visit now...

Habibiboo

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Lots going on A*M!

Well done with getting the jumper back on track, nothing more disheartening than having to unravel your own hard work, but nothing more heartening than getting back past that point and knowing it's all OK this time!

Fudge sounds lovely and excellent progress with presents. Sounds like you have a good class of charity shop round your way! I need to get a few sorted for this month and next at some point. My son is easy because he and OH are planning a big trip to Amsterdam so I think Euros will be the best present!

Hope DD feels better soon and that it's nothing catching ... there's a lot going around! x

apple_muncher

It's Monday - a fresh week, albeit a rather gloomy-looking one, the y11s start their exams todays, and it's my birthday :j. I'm taking in the mint and choc fudges I made for the gannets.

Which reminds me there are just 15 days left on my 100 day knitting challenge...! I should try to finish off some projects to see if I can get to the magic 3-digit number. Then what? Ooh, that's one to consider. My making has been rather random, so at the moment, I feel the need to re-evaluate what I've done and then make a list. I found some more plain cards, so could make trees for them; more hanging red trees would probably be good; do the hearts need to be hanging - cos if I decide they do, that's another job even though they're counted as finished...

But May need to see me crack on with exam moderating, starting tonight with just 1 hour of it. The deadline is June 10, so would love to finish early and not have to dedicate half term to it too much...

Right, off to poke dd awake...