NST February Challenge : A Winter Voyage

ChasingSunshine

NSD again today, not sure what I am up to now but impressed with how many I have managed

Today I am grateful for
Chance to do lots of batch cooking
Rugby on TV
Free Kindle books on amazon letting me do lots of reading without breaking a NSD

SkintTeacher

PPA = planning, preparation and assessment (basically your non-teaching time to do everything that isn't contact time with the children. It's a joke of an amount but without it the job would be undoable!

crazy_cat_lady

Evening all
I cannot believe half term is over already! Why does a week at work not pass by that quickly? Not fair.
Incidentally Captain - PPA stands for Preparation, Planning and Assessment time. We are legally entitled to 10% of our timetabled teaching time every week to do this, but I laugh at the hilarity of being able to prepare and mark for 22 hours of teaching in 2.5 hours off timetable. Still, I know that there are plenty of people who think that we do very little and get far too much holiday...
Fmess. The dogs are family, and the vet bills come as part of being a pet owner. I too am incredibly skint after a tough January followed by £250 vet bills in Feb plus a boiler breakdown. As mothernerd says though, some things are a necessity, and I count my cats and my heating among those things. So I have less to put towards our Easter trip away but never mind.
Actually made an extra bit of £ today - I stayed at tutoring for 2 hours. So that's nice and I'm hoping that I can put the money away towards above mentioned holiday fund, as I wasn't expecting it and I'll only spend it on rubbish if I leave it in my purse.
Didn't manage a nsd as we were down to our last toilet roll and I couldn't bear the thought of running out. So I won't make the nsd target this month but I will keep going and see what I can do.
Today I'm grateful for:
Extra work leading to extra £
Having crochet to help me stress less
A night in, watching telly.

SkintTeacher

Ha swabbies! Grim!

Toni'sfriend

Didn't manage to post yesterday. Technical issues with the computer which required the Cabin Boy's expertise. All fixed now so at least the four years at Uni weren't a waste of time.
Friday was a beautiful day so managed a long walk but today was awful so had to get the bus into town. Bought some food in M & S using a gift voucher which I got for Christmas. Would technically been a NSD but C discovered Iceland were selling family packs of chocolate mini rollsfor £1.00. Four packs are now hidden where I can't find them.
Off to bed shortly. THREE Midsomer Murders on tonight.
Have a good weekend.

Eager_Elephant

:eek::eek: I have been on Urban Dictionary - I agree with Abundant - do not look!!:eek:

EagerElephant - so pleased to hear you're up and running again on your brand new shiny PC. How exciting. I reckon you might be a bit of a financial guru on the quiet. Noticed you've been on the boards for like 10 years too!!! It's great to have your expertise on-board to give us all advice. Thanks.

I love MSE, just a shame I have been playing at clearing my debt for all these years - this year is different though!
I am actually a Money Adviser in my day job - you would think I would know better than to get into debt. If I do say so myself I am fab with the people I see, I don't just give debt advice I help them with their budgets as well. I point loads of people to MSE!!

SkintTeacher

Today I'm grateful:
1) my first ever yoga session
2) a chance to see my dad (He lives in a care home after multiple strokes)
3) a very thoughtful gift from my twin sis - a cheese knife inscribed with me and my partner's names and the date of our wedding (to be used to cut our cheese wedding cake on the day)

Eager_Elephant

Today is a NSD (now up to 14) - I have had a lovely pottering day.

DH had to work today - he has not worked a Saturday for years - so I have pleased myself all day.
Went to the allotment and cut back loads of brambles, have done loads of washing and got bedding and towels dry outside, have baked some cakes (including some miniature GF lemon cakes for my sis - it was her birthday in the week and she is healthy eating so won't eat much cake so these are just the right size!), filled 2 brown bins with garden rubbish (brambles, dead grass etc), been on MSE and cooked tea.

This is what Saturdays are all about!!

Today I am grateful for:
1. DH working so I had the day to myself
2. Lovely weather - warm and a little windy
3. Being able to bake cakes

Looking forward to March's challenge mothernerd

SkintTeacher

apple_muncher wrote: »

Abundant - re the book, it is kind of aimed at both. I really would recommend reading it. And then re-reading it a few months later. I wouldn't give it to my mum to read, as she is at the stage of new info not being retained and she would then fret about random phrases she could recall. It very much goes against what we would call 'common sense', as common sense is not where the person with alz/dem is at. By applying the advice, the person can be kept in a 'green' state, and not slip into 'red' and panic, fear, frustration.

Maybe borrow it from the library first...:)

One of the main ideas being you 'go along' with any fantasies being lived out, am I right? Eg. My dad thinks I'm 15 perpetually and I never 'correct' him, although I do tell him about new developments in my life. He is in an advanced stage of dementia.

Toni'sfriend

I have many friends and family members who are teachers and I think that you are all grossly underappreciated. People don't understand the number of hours you work both at school and at home and the stress involved on looking after so many children. Well done, All.
Forgot to say today I'm grateful for
Great rugby this afternoon
Lovely salmon dinner
My clever son. Without him technical issues would never be solved in this house. I can't even work the TV box.