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Post by benjiesmum on Jan 15, 2007 19:03:00 GMT 1
I hope there is some one in tonight to have a bit of a natter to. I got to work this morning to be told that we are being "Ofsted inspected" on Thursday. The head is running round like a demented chicken squawking' and flappin' but I'm afraid I'm getting too old for all that. But I think before the week is out I'll be needing more that a few wee drams inside me. Hot chocolate this evening isn't going to hit the spot. Many years ago I was in a school where an inspection was underway. I ran the library at the time. One morning, I locked the library and went to the staffroom. Imagine the scene....
Staffroom door opens wide
Teacher A: (big red face and urgent looking) Benjiesmum, you've locked an HMI in the library!!!! You'd better go and let him out.
Me: Very funny, Oggie stop winding me up will you! (gets back to cup of coffee). You just want the my comfie chair, the only comfie chair in the staffroom, I know what you are up to...
Teacher A: No, Benjiesmum, it's true you really have locked him in he's knocking on the window...
Me: Yeh, yeh, Oggie go and play your pathetic jokes on someone else.
Teacher B: (bursting through the door and in cahoots with teacher A) There's an HMI in the library, Benjiesmum.... you need to go and let him out......
Me: Bloomin' 'eck Elmsie can't you just cut it out you are getting as bad as Oggie! I haven't forgiven you both for unbolting my driving seat out of my car and hiding it in the PE storeroom.
The door opens again and in comes the HEADTEACHER (stressed)
Headteacher: (looking embarrassed, angry and beside himself with mortification) Mrs. Benjiesmum, I've just unlocked the library door - you locked the CHIEF HMI in. He's been in there for at least twenty minutes!
Oh dear! I hadn't seen him because he'd been counting the books on the bottom shelf in the Art section. ;D Needless to say it took me ages to live it down.
Lovely sky NortOwer!!
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Post by mrgluss on Jan 15, 2007 21:17:08 GMT 1
Noo dan folk, how ir you da night? Let me in ta warm me erse by da fire - it's drivin rain an blowin a hooly oot yunder. Ah'm left me oilskins an boots at da door, so ah'm fairly kirsen, an da good thing aboot bein a Magnie in Shetland is da seeminly limitless supply o fireproof boilersuits wi attractive logos available courtesy o da oil industry. Nae worries aboot overdoin da blue clods! ;D Splendid story Benjiesmum - I'm sure there could be a future career in there kidnapping hapless HMI Inspectors and keeping them locked in your library - think of the adulation you would receive from the teaching profession. And if you get caught just claim it was some sort of protest against league tables. Mind you, you would have to feed them and clean them out, and they would be a lot noisier than your sheep. Nah forget the whole thing!
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Post by mucklelaalie on Jan 15, 2007 21:36:29 GMT 1
I need a sit doon... been a laaang day. I'll be neebin near da fire. I miss shetland wadder... January is a gloriously depressive month o it (for most folk) and i love it. Sullom Voe has had many wonderous benefits, none least more pertainent than the "free" supply of *deep intake of breath*... boilersuits, jackets (both flourescent orange and yellow), printing paper... hold on. Am i saying too much? oopsies. *Neebs*
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Post by mucklelaalie on Jan 15, 2007 21:50:26 GMT 1
Joost seen da wadder charts (da complicated eens! )... i think some snaa looks on da wye fir da weekend. Might no lest lang, and might nivir happen, but it looks lik a couple o days o northerly winds. Aa da different charts are starting to come into agreement we each iddir. Haed to happen sooner or later, just to put da brakes on da 'Global Warming, its Global Warming, we are all going to die tomorrow' brigade, if for nothin else. *This statement is by no means an accurate, concise, nor fully substantiated representation of NortOwer's personal views, opinions or knowledge on global warming, and wishes that no positive or negative inferences be drawn from the eminently throw away comment this disclaimer adheres to* Neeb again.
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Post by benjiesmum on Jan 15, 2007 22:10:32 GMT 1
Sounds a bit bad in Aussie too. 37,000 sheep killed by freak storms in SW Aussie on January 15th. And we think we've got it bad. Poor sheep - poor farmers too. Glad you liked the wee story mrgluss - it probably set my promotion prospects back five years but I always remember it with some fondness for the good old days when there weren't such a thing as bloomin' league tables. Well there were - but they were only to be found on sports programmes and pub notice boards! Ah well it's cocoa time so I'll be off now. Early night with the prospect of "An Inspector Calls" on Thursday - well two of them actually. Better get my shoes polished and my office hoovered out before then - probably could do with borrowing that butler Texel ram of mhays! Good night.
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Post by mrgluss on Jan 15, 2007 22:36:25 GMT 1
Yip I reckon dye wadder predictions for da weekend could be right. I'm just back fae Edinburgh, an the hoose is cowld, so it's fine ta hiv a warm pub ta retreat tae - even if only virtually!
Good luck with the inspectors Benjiesmum - remember you're training with livestock - show them no fear and preferably look right through them. Well - it works with sheepdogs. ;D
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Post by mrgluss on Jan 15, 2007 22:39:59 GMT 1
Technical query - if you can post photos, can you also post music? It would be good to have a bit o a tune in da pub. I still havna hed time ta figure oot da instructions fur postin photos, so it wid hiv ta be straightforward ;D
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Post by mucklelaalie on Jan 15, 2007 23:14:20 GMT 1
You can indeed post music quite easily... alang much da same lines as for photos... which dir is a good explanation hidden somewhere amongst da photos, i'll try an hunt it doon. If i haed a good tune to post up, I wid... I'll hiv ta look elsewhare, at least for the moment.
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Post by Admin Mal on Jan 16, 2007 13:47:05 GMT 1
I'm just not long up. Got this fluey cold that's been doing the rounds. <sniff sniff>
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Post by Admin Mal on Jan 16, 2007 18:14:39 GMT 1
Yeah! Ach, it's joost wan o' they things..
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Post by benjiesmum on Jan 16, 2007 18:57:06 GMT 1
Goose grease on the chest and a hot toddy sounds like what you need Fiona!!!! ;D I'm the same today - cough, cough, sneezles and weesles. Sore throat...red nose...aaatishoo!!! (Daren't have a day off what with these inspectors looming.)
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Post by Admin Mal on Jan 17, 2007 0:38:49 GMT 1
I feel a bit of a fraud, Benjiesmum, as I've been oot and had a meal. <and a brandy for medicinal porpoises> I wouldn't have gone but for the fact that my bairn is off back to uni and we'd planned a meal out and I had to go! I've rubbed on your goose grease, thanks, and it's sticking to my liberty bodice good style. <anyone remember those??!! > I might go and have a hot toddy before retiring too. Hope your sniffles and sore throat get better soon. Good luck with the inspectors! Fifi <teacher in a past life >
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Post by benjiesmum on Jan 17, 2007 6:03:07 GMT 1
I've rubbed on your goose grease, thanks, and it's sticking to my liberty bodice good style. <anyone remember those??!! > I might go and have a hot toddy before retiring too. Hope your sniffles and sore throat get better soon. Good luck with the inspectors! Fifi <teacher in a past life > Hello, Fiona! Good, I'm glad you've applied the old goose grease - works wonders I always think. Liberty bodices - hmm don't think I've ever had one of those! I'm really full of a cold this morning and would usually work at home today (PAPERWORK MOUNTAINS) but I must away to the smoke to make sure everything is in order. So it's a quick bowl of porridge and a cup of cawffee then off I'm afraid into the pouring, sheeting rain. As an ex-teacher yourself, you will understand the panic that has set in at our place. Headless chicken syndrome and all that. The head, who took over three years ago is a lovely lady and wants us to get a "good" rating. ;D The other three secondary schools which have been done have only received "satisfactory" so every little helps. We really do need to get a "good". ;D I'm going to get a few more things sorted today. So my "piles" are going to have to stay where I put them on Tuesday night - on top of my desk and wait until next week. I've just sneaked a wee dram from behind the bar. The money's behind the green pig. What's that green pig for? It wasn't there when I came in the other night!
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Post by Admin Mal on Jan 17, 2007 23:02:47 GMT 1
I've just sneaked a wee dram from behind the bar. The money's behind the green pig. What's that green pig for? It's to keep the red pig company of course. ;D ;D
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Post by georgeg on Jan 18, 2007 14:20:09 GMT 1
I went into da pub this morning for a bit o peace and quiet..I got banned.. only because I asked for a nice glass o water [ Iam TT you see ] anyway, the barman was very rude, he told me to beat it and not come back..so I dont know whit to do, I wonder if next time I try to get in he would let me stay if I ordered a shandy.. hope so, cause its nice and cosy in there... ;D ;D ;D ;D
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