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Buffythedebtslayer

RosaBernicia said:

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? 

Fish rescues tend to be super specialist run by really knowledgeable people who  run massive tanks- this next bit is judgey! but in my experience they look for free fish, the big unusual statement fish people can't house and not equipment. The pet fish industry is terrible in terms of animal cruelty (soapbox being placed on the floor) for example I didn't realise some of my fish were will caught, so many die all the time both on the journey and in the shop, then at home - if people killed puppies in the amount that fish die there would be outrage but fish aren't cute. 

Gets off soapbox 

I am starving and having said all that about pet fish I appear to be having fish and chips for dinner! I am so morally compromised it is untrue!! 

badmemory

Buffythedebtslayer said:

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. 

 

I sometimes wonder how the queen must feel having to give weekly audiences to that man, even if she no longer has to do it in person.

Sun_Addict

She must’ve had to tolerate a fair few thinking OMG this one is 😡 I can’t think of a decent one we’ve had for a very long time. 

Buffythedebtslayer

In other news, I did very little work today! 

I put together two photo albums, I have one left to finish - all from 2018 when I used to leave the house! I did need to come back in an emergency with BIL in hospital but the rest of that summer was France, visiting friends, a wedding reception and lots of days out. It was fab. 

I actually left the house and had lunch with a really good friend - it was completely last minute and lovely. Made me super happy  

Tomorrow is going to be hard work. But that is ok. XXX 

Buffythedebtslayer

Sun_Addict said:

She must’ve had to tolerate a fair few thinking OMG this one is 😡 I can’t think of a decent one we’ve had for a very long time. 

No, they have recently been awful. Why don't decent people EVER go into politics? 

Sun_Addict

Buffythedebtslayer said:

Sun_Addict said:

She must’ve had to tolerate a fair few thinking OMG this one is 😡 I can’t think of a decent one we’ve had for a very long time. 

No, they have recently been awful. Why don't decent people EVER go into politics? 

It’s not a job I’d want to do, the pay isn’t great given the responsibility and thick skin needed to cope with it. They don’t get paid as much as you think but obviously the perks are worthwhile. 

Buffythedebtslayer

I am really looking forward to going back to work.  I must prep for it on Monday, so will definitely need to have my room sorted by then. 

I love my job and I miss the people I work with. 

Best get on! Got to make breakfast, Have mopped the floor and cleaned the kitchen. Got to fold up Mum's washing. 

Buffythedebtslayer

Sun_Addict said:

Buffythedebtslayer said:

Sun_Addict said:

She must’ve had to tolerate a fair few thinking OMG this one is 😡 I can’t think of a decent one we’ve had for a very long time. 

No, they have recently been awful. Why don't decent people EVER go into politics? 

It’s not a job I’d want to do, the pay isn’t great given the responsibility and thick skin needed to cope with it. They don’t get paid as much as you think but obviously the perks are worthwhile. 

I volunteered when I was young, horrible hours, no thanks and the actual MP was a !!!!!!! All the people round were nice but crikey. 

RosaBernicia

Buffythedebtslayer said:

RosaBernicia said:

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? 

Fish rescues tend to be super specialist run by really knowledgeable people who  run massive tanks- this next bit is judgey! but in my experience they look for free fish, the big unusual statement fish people can't house and not equipment. The pet fish industry is terrible in terms of animal cruelty (soapbox being placed on the floor) for example I didn't realise some of my fish were will caught, so many die all the time both on the journey and in the shop, then at home - if people killed puppies in the amount that fish die there would be outrage but fish aren't cute. 

Gets off soapbox 

I am starving and having said all that about pet fish I appear to be having fish and chips for dinner! I am so morally compromised it is untrue!! 

Oh I was thinking more of using them for gerbils and hedgehogs and the like, I have learnt something as I didn't know there were specialist fish rescues at all!  Sadly I'm not surprised at hearing they are either wild caught or poorly kept.  I always worry at koi ponds since as much as I love to see the fish I'm sure most of them are massively overcrowded.  (One of the garden centres near where I used to live had a black koi in their tanks who was so bent sideways he could only swim one way, and I was always surprised they kept him on show - it upset me, as I suspect he got that way from being kept in something much too small, and that's not a good advert for somewhere to get healthy fish.)

Buffythedebtslayer said:

badmemory said:

I sometimes wonder how the queen must feel having to give weekly audiences to that man, even if she no longer has to do it in person.

I wonder this too, I hope she sits there planning ways to have Corgis kill him. 

I'm never going to be able to watch the Christmas speech again without thinking of lines of ninja corgis hiding behind the desk

badmemory

I don't think garden centres are the place for keeping/selling fish of any type.  They don't seem to have enough tanks to employ someone who knows what they are doing, so they land up badly kept, this is not new.  A dedicated fish shop even if they sell all 3 types tends to know what they are doing & if you check out both you can tell the difference in the quality of the fish.  I don't think they are allowed to keep cats & dogs etc in such a random manner.