The Best View Comes After the Hardest Climb.

Buffythedebtslayer

Alchemilla said:

Buffythedebtslayer said:

In other news I cleared the conservatory. You can sit on the sofa, the fish tanks after all the shenanigans is finally level. My room is a bomb site as is the spare room. but it is progress. big progress. 

Mum's response was.....well you have broken the back of the conservatory. 

Ok then.  

I might have said that, meaning "You've done the majority of the work" is that a misunderstanding between you?

Yeah, I'd get that if I had done the majority of the work but honestly aside from the recycling box being full of non recycling and the second tank still empty it is completely different, We couldn't sit in for about 6 years. I have to remember she is in a lot of pain and the house isn't her priority, I mean when I redid the living room in half term I left her table alone as she said she would do it, she never did and I haven't mentioned it since as she can't do it and I won't point it out. However yesterday she complained about what a mess it was - but it really isn't, it is just the table - it is like she can only see what is wrong. I am over it now as have had some time sitting in there by myself watching the fish which has been lovely. She won't sit there it is either too hot or too cold for her. 

Buffythedebtslayer

Alchemilla said:

Did you get rid of the fish tank? Would one of your colleagues want it?

I don't think anyone would want it, they are too small for a proper experiments for science teachers. I will try for free next week. 

RosaBernicia

I think a lot of us are having wibbles with readjusting to post lockdown.  It is so good in some ways but does make you look back on the last couple of years and realise how weird it's been.  (Best not get me started on the 'gosh lockdown, being paid to do nothing but declutter and sit in the garden' thing, it just makes me froth at the mouth.  Some of us were working, and that seems to be rather rapidly forgotten, quite apart from the disasters in situations like kids who are safer at school.)    But there's nothing we can do about what's gone, only look at where we're at now and how to go forward. 

Alchemilla

Buffythedebtslayer said:

Alchemilla said:

Did you get rid of the fish tank? Would one of your colleagues want it?

I don't think anyone would want it, they are too small for a proper experiments for science teachers. I will try for free next week. 

I meant as a fish  tank, quite a few teachers have one in their rooms (not sure why I'm telling you that when you're a teacher yourself).

I ended up taking our small one to the recycle centre.

Sun_Addict

A hospital or hospice might be glad of a fish tank. 

I’m another one who worked throughout the pandemic. I even did a stint on the helpline paying out to those on furlough. 

Willowtree222

Sun_Addict said:

A hospital or hospice might be glad of a fish tank. 

I’m another one who worked throughout the pandemic. I even did a stint on the helpline paying out to those on furlough. 

I bet that was hard especially if people were anxious. 

I was working too. Was weird travelling in no traffic. I was on a rota so did get some time working from home. X

Sun_Addict

Willowtree222 said:

Sun_Addict said:

A hospital or hospice might be glad of a fish tank. 

I’m another one who worked throughout the pandemic. I even did a stint on the helpline paying out to those on furlough. 

I bet that was hard especially if people were anxious. 

I was working too. Was weird travelling in no traffic. I was on a rota so did get some time working from home. X

It was the small businesses trying to keep their staff. Most of them were very stressed but grateful.  Thankfully it was only to help start it off and I went back to my day job once things has settled down. I’d never worked on a helpline before, it was quite scary but fulfilling. 

Buffythedebtslayer

Alchemilla said:

Buffythedebtslayer said:

Alchemilla said:

Did you get rid of the fish tank? Would one of your colleagues want it?

I don't think anyone would want it, they are too small for a proper experiments for science teachers. I will try for free next week. 

I meant as a fish  tank, quite a few teachers have one in their rooms (not sure why I'm telling you that when you're a teacher yourself).

I ended up taking our small one to the recycle centre.

Ah, we are not allowed to keep a tank like that - health and safety! Previously at my old school I gave a tank to use literally to grow algae as an experiment. I suspect these will go to recycling too! 

RosaBernicia

Buffythedebtslayer said:

Alchemilla said:

Buffythedebtslayer said:

Alchemilla said:

Did you get rid of the fish tank? Would one of your colleagues want it?

I don't think anyone would want it, they are too small for a proper experiments for science teachers. I will try for free next week. 

I meant as a fish  tank, quite a few teachers have one in their rooms (not sure why I'm telling you that when you're a teacher yourself).

I ended up taking our small one to the recycle centre.

Ah, we are not allowed to keep a tank like that - health and safety! Previously at my old school I gave a tank to use literally to grow algae as an experiment. I suspect these will go to recycling too! 

That seems a shame, I would have thought somebody would be glad of one for pets.  Might an animal shelter be able to use them? 

Buffythedebtslayer

RosaBernicia said:

I think a lot of us are having wibbles with readjusting to post lockdown.  It is so good in some ways but does make you look back on the last couple of years and realise how weird it's been.  (Best not get me started on the 'gosh lockdown, being paid to do nothing but declutter and sit in the garden' thing, it just makes me froth at the mouth.  Some of us were working, and that seems to be rather rapidly forgotten, quite apart from the disasters in situations like kids who are safer at school.)    But there's nothing we can do about what's gone, only look at where we're at now and how to go forward. 

I also froth at the mouth, don't get me wrong, I didn't have to work massively hard but I knew so many of my students were suffering. Really suffering. It was awful. I went in as often as I could so we could provide spaces for students more easily as did we all. Some days we had more staff than kids!  The bbc coverage used to make me rage. And to hear all this !!!!!! about parties makes me incandescent. 

It was so interesting reading my journals tho.