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LeRoc
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Sipech: Thanks for the Dr Who themed mental image.
For anyone who wasn't aware: these little dolls are made of our own body fat. I thought you'd like to know that.
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Piglet
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... these little dolls are made of our own body fat. I thought you'd like to know that.
You were wrong ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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ArachnidinElmet
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No squitty white things here, but more than enough rain. I had to ring myself out when I got home. In compensation though I had a slice of lime, coconut and courgette cake which made up for the lousy weather.
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Ariel
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Imogen has been pulling my hair until my scalp tingles. I caught sight of my reflection in a window at one point, looking like Medusa on a bad hair day. Glad it's mostly over now.
They do say "February fill-dike" and every available ditch, pond, puddle, pothole, dip in the road, etc etc has been well and truly filled with rain. Thank God the bus windows weren't open this evening.
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I'm selfishly thankful to have been out of reach of Imogen. Yes, I feel for those who have been caught out but well, in Cumbria we have had more than enough of storms. I hope everyone is safe and with power and little or no damage.
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I've been getting quite a bit of Donald Trump related spam emails lately. Has anyone else been getting it ? It's not about politics, it has titles like Donald Trump's secret for increasing your concentration levels, or improving your eyesight.
I'm not sure who is behind it or what I did to get on their list.
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moonfruit
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Well. I've heard the saying about being cursed with interesting times..
We have parent's evenings this week at my school, and my class (or rather some of their parents) are currently doing their best to re-enact EastEnders in terms of personal drama...and then at lunch time we had the Ofsted phone call. It's that moment when the message comes round: all staff to the staffroom at 12:15, and you Just Know. Still, we're more than ready, so I think for most people the attitude is, let's do this thing.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
It's not about politics, it has titles like Donald Trump's secret for increasing your concentration levels, or improving your eyesight.
This sounds great. I'd love to know what Donald Trump's secret for improving your eyesight is, but as it's a secret, I'll probably have to go on wondering.
In other news, just finished making a small pile of Scotch pancakes. Looking forward to a Shrove Tuesday breakfast tomorrow. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Ariel:
... just finished making a small pile of Scotch pancakes ...
I'll be right over. Shall I bring jam? We were given several assorted jars of home-made jam for Christmas, so I seem to have half a larder-full of the stuff.
The threatened blizzard hasn't started yet (they're now offering us around a foot of snow); it's nearly midnight now, and if it doesn't get a move on it won't have come to enough to give us a snow-day.
Mind you, once it starts, it can sometimes accumulate at quite a lick ...
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WW, when we were in Russia last year, we arrived at a very crowded Leningradsky station simultaneously with an Indian tour group. The situation you describe was mirrored there. Is it an ingrained cultural trait?
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Boogie
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Originally posted by moonfruit:
It's that moment when the message comes round: all staff to the staffroom at 12:15, and you Just Know. Still, we're more than ready, so I think for most people the attitude is, let's do this thing.
Oh dear, my sympathies. There is an F in Ofsted
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) ah well, they come then they go.
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Not easy, I know ... but better than the old days when you knew that the announcement meant four months of pressure and stress before the Inspection itself. (My wife was an Acting Head, so she Knows).
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Welease Woderwick
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Today I made that pasta dish with Mascarpone, Gorgonzola and Parmesan and I have to say that it was pretty darned good - but I am so glad we bought that machine that removes all the calories and cholesterol - worth every penny!
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Originally posted by Boogie:
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Originally posted by moonfruit:
It's that moment when the message comes round: all staff to the staffroom at 12:15, and you Just Know. Still, we're more than ready, so I think for most people the attitude is, let's do this thing.
Oh dear, my sympathies. There is an F in Ofsted
ah well, they come then they go.
Of course, you know the old joke... What's the difference between a cosmetic surgeon and an OFSTED Inspector?
One tucks up features, and the other...
The last time I was inspected I took to playing "I am what I am" very loudly in my classroom just before I went to the staff room for my pre teaching coffee. I decided not to let them **** me up!
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Originally posted by Boogie:
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Originally posted by moonfruit:
It's that moment when the message comes round: all staff to the staffroom at 12:15, and you Just Know. Still, we're more than ready, so I think for most people the attitude is, let's do this thing.
Oh dear, my sympathies. There is an F in Ofsted
ah well, they come then they go.
The dreaded OFSTED are round these parts today and tomorrow too. Reminds me of my OFSTED joke...
Q. What is the difference between an OFSTED inspector and a plastic surgeon?
A. One of them tucks up your features.
I'll get my coat......
Edited to say Ooops I should have read to the bottom of the thread....sorry Dormouse.
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Piglet
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Wishing the best of luck to all the teachers out there who are being ****ed up by OFSTED.
We did get a snow-day; at first it didn't really look too bad (although it was blowing around a fair bit), but by early afternoon there was a drift a foot deep outside our front door. The Pigletmobile was supposed to be going in today to get mended after that prang we had before Christmas, but when D. phoned the place, he got no reply, so that'll have to wait until tomorrow.
After a nice lie-in, I made a pot of soup and a batch of rolls, some of which we had for supper.
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moonfruit
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After a day of Ofsted, we're still smiling. And very, very tired. But mostly smiling.
I can see Friday afternoon involving a DVD, and me sat at the back of the classroom with a cup of tea.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by moonfruit:
After a day of Ofsted, we're still smiling. And very, very tired. But mostly smiling.
I can see Friday afternoon involving a DVD, and me sat at the back of the classroom with a cup of tea.
Well done - aaaand relax!
It's amazing how good children are at watching anything on a screen, isn't it?
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Praying for you all Moonfruit ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
Keep smiling and roll on Friday!
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Piglet
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Glad to hear you're still smiling, Moonfruit! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Piglet
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Thanks, St. E!
We went to Mallard Cottage for dinner to celebrate, and very good it was too.
He started with root-vegetable soup, and I had fish cakes with turnip greens and a mustard-seed sauce; and for main courses I had duck leg in a light curry sauce with ginger beetroot and he had up-market bangers and mash, all of which was washed down with a bottle of Chilean Sauvignon Blanc.
It wasn't cheap, but it was worth it; the only points they lost were for the dishes not being warmed. The main courses were served in cast-iron Le Crueset oven dishes like this, and while we wouldn't have wanted them to be really hot, they could have done with being warm; D. reckoned that if you're paying $29 for bangers & mash it really ought to be properly hot.
It seems to be an almost universal failing over here: even in upmarket places, the plates are rarely warmed (and the white wine is often not nearly cold enough, although that wasn't a problem tonight).
Still, I'd rate it at least 9½ out of 10.
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Boogie
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Here we are in Heidelberg again after an incredibly easy journey plane~train~train. Now for a couple of weissbiers with Boogielet1.
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LeRoc
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I love Heidelberg; haven't been there for a while. Enjoy!
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Piglet:
It seems to be an almost universal failing over here: even in upmarket places, the plates are rarely warmed
Is this a north American thing? We were dining with friends in Albany NY and same thing - hot lasagne on to stone cold plates. I should say this was in their home, not a restaurant, but presumably there's the same expectation?
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Lothlorien
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I had it in a cafe/bistro place down here a few years ago. A place with a good reputation where i had had lunch or breakfast many times before.
Away for the weekend and friend and I were looking forward to something hot. It was -6 deg C outside.
The plates were as cold as if stored outside all night. Food was just about as cold. I did complain and breakfast the next morning which was a bit warmer was served on a plate so hot I could not touch it.
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British raised by a kiwi mum with a fixation about HOT plates for hot food.
Imagine my horror in N.E China during winter when everything, including my breakfast coffee, was served on or in (colder than) stone cold china. My N American companion mocked my horror, and the way I followed staff into kitchens to show them how to run my coffee cup under the hot tap before putting coffee into it etc., for years after that trip.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Is this a north American thing?
I think it may be; we have a friend who's rather up-herself about food and cooking* but when we eat at her house, not only the plates but the serving dishes are Not Warm, and in five minutes, neither is the food.
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* Think Hyacinth Bucket; I don't think she actually has hand-painted periwinkles, but you get the idea. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Lothlorien
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Was flipping channels last night. Don't watch much TV and there was nothing to encourage me to watch anything. Then flipped past Fawlty Towers re-runs and discovered Mrs Bucket followed. I must have seen both shows multiple times, but enjoyed both of these even though I remembered what came next.
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Fawlty Towers is still brilliant and I can watch it over and over, but I'm afraid Keeping Up Appearances I've never found remotely funny. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever found anyrhing written by Roy Clarke remotely funny.
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LeRoc
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Keeping Up Appearances has brought a smile to my face a couple of times. It had some good comical actors. But it was basically telling the same joke over and over again, by going completely over the top. There are limits to how many times that can be funny.
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I must say I rather liked Keeping Up Appearances because the characters were all so familiar from growing up in 80's/90's suburbia. Hyacinth is just a slight exaggeration of my Mum.
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Has the Post Office changed its delivery times? I posted a birthday card to a friend in England yesterday and was told that second class post would take 3-4 working days, i.e. it would arrive on Monday or Tuesday and that if wanted it to arrive before Tuesday, I'd have to post first class.
I thought first class was one to two days and second class was two to three? Where did this fourth day come from?
His birthday is on Saturday, apparently last Tuesday was the last date to post second class safely. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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If you want to privatise the Royal Mail you cut funding and cut funding until it is all so inefficient that BINGO There Is No Alternative.
[The next sentence is deleted because nothing I could possibly say can be said politely!]
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Originally posted by Spike:
Fawlty Towers is still brilliant and I can watch it over and over, but I'm afraid Keeping Up Appearances I've never found remotely funny. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever found anyrhing written by Roy Clarke remotely funny.
The *very* early "Last of the Summer Wine" were excellent, with Michael Bates as Blamire, but they don't get repeated, possibly to fool people that later episodes aren't so bad.
Come to think about it does anyone else find "Only Fools and Horses" a one (poor to average) joke show? I'm afraid "Keeping Up Appearances", like "The Office" are no-joke shows to me and I findes.
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Has the Post Office changed its delivery times? I posted a birthday card to a friend in England yesterday and was told that second class post would take 3-4 working days, i.e. it would arrive on Monday or Tuesday and that if wanted it to arrive before Tuesday, I'd have to post first class.
I thought first class was one to two days and second class was two to three? Where did this fourth day come from?
His birthday is on Saturday, apparently last Tuesday was the last date to post second class safely.
Not really but two different ways of calculating delivery times. The Post Office guarantees something like 90% next day deliveries on first class and 2-3 day deliveries on second. However, the safe time is the time to which you can claim compensation and that is considerably longer as they do not want to pay compensation of 5% of deliveries.
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LeRoc
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Oh and by the way, it is pronounced Bouquet.
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There's at least one channel here that still shows an episode of Keeping Up Appearances every night; we overdosed on it when we first came here (I think we needed a British fix).
I wouldn't lump all of Roy Clarke's stuff as awful (although he does seem to rely quite heavily on the "running-gag" format); I enjoyed Open All Hours (and its current reincarnation isn't bad either), possibly due to the superlative cast.
I think Last of the Summer Wine has gone a bit past its sell-by date though.
eta: I'd pay a king's ransom for a channel devoted to the output of Hat Trick Productions, especially Chelmsford 123, Drop the Dead Donkey and Have I Got News for You.
Or Dave.
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Keeping Up Appearances always made me cringe. Patricia Routledge is such a wonderfully talented actress, and I always felt a bit embarrassed for her.
I’m one of those people who likes the BBC2 comedies much better than the BBC1 comedies. When I was flaked out on the sofa with a fever a couple of weeks ago, I watched the whole series of Blackadder III back to back. It never stops being hilarious to me.
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Thanks to all for your good wishes this week. We made it to the end of half term, somehow - we had parent's evenings as well as an Ofsted inspection this week, and I'm so tired I'm not sure I actually know my own name anymore.
I remember well Keeping Up Appearances - I think now I would find it cringe-y, but as a child I thought it was hilarious. I remember it as being of those Saturday/ Sunday teatime shows, along with Dad's Army, Hi-De-Hi, Brittas Empire, etc.
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Nice day - went to deliver something to a colleague and came away with a large piece of red velvet birthday cake in return. At lunchtime another one asked if I wanted a trip to the local farm shop at lunchtime. They make delicious homemade ice cream. It may not have been quite the weather but I can never resist coffee ice cream.
This evening someone on a photography site linked a music clip to her latest photo. I don't normally bother with these as they're usually the sort of music I can't get into, but idly clicked on it anyway and the next two hours were an unexpectedly wonderful voyage of discovery of the work of Armand Amar. If you like romantic film-type music, some of it with an Eastern twist, you'll probably like his stuff. I even ended up buying Le Sud from Amazon.
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eta: I'd pay a king's ransom for a channel devoted to the output of Hat Trick Productions, especially Chelmsford 123, Drop the Dead Donkey and Have I Got News for You.
Ooh. You do and I'll be right round on the doorstep. Three of my favourite programmes in one sentence!
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I did a Drop the Dead Donkey re-watch not that long since and it still holds up. It's amazingly topical still even though it was 20 years (20 YEARS!) ago.
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Piglet
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Thanks, A-in-E - now I feel truly ancient. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Having discovered that the bread-machine was leaking (the spindly thing that holds the paddle had come loose and wouldn't stay put), we've invested in a new one. After some fairly intensive research on t'interweb, D. went and had a foray round an actual shop and found a bigger version of the old one (two paddles rather than one) reduced from $150 to $90, and bought it. Although it's bigger, it still fits into the same bit of counter-space.
As it's used at least once most weeks, and bearing in mind the saving we make* by not buying any bread, it shouldn't take too long to pay for itself.
* 10kg of flour costs less than $10, and will make about 45 French sticks; that would cost about $135 to buy. Anyway, making them yourself is just so therapeutic.
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We had a lovely day in the sunshine walking down the river Neckar, stopping at coffee shops and meeting Mike`s many friends. Today is his 30th (!) birthday party
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LeRoc
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Piglet: Although it's bigger, it still fits into the same bit of counter-space.
It's bigger on the inside!
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
I did a Drop the Dead Donkey re-watch not that long since and it still holds up. It's amazingly topical still even though it was 20 years (20 YEARS!) ago.
I did the same recently. I noticed a very interesting comment about Jimmy Savile in one of the episodes. The general public didn't know then what we know now, but watching that episode now I realise that they were playing very close to,the edge with that joke.
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
I did a Drop the Dead Donkey re-watch not that long since and it still holds up. It's amazingly topical still even though it was 20 years (20 YEARS!) ago.
I did the same recently. I noticed a very interesting comment about Jimmy Savile in one of the episodes. The general public didn't know then what we know now, but watching that episode now I realise that they were playing very close to,the edge with that joke.
True. I remember a few things about the same time that had little digs about Savile, getting the meaning across but just low enough under the radar not to get sued. I suspect the DtDD team had a lawyer to hand at all times.
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Piglet: Although it's bigger, it still fits into the same bit of counter-space.
It's bigger on the inside!
It's a TARDIS bread-machine! I reckon its "footprint" is slightly longer than the old one, but not any wider, which suits the space fine. I've just taken my first batch of French sticks made in it out of the oven, and they look (and smell) v. nice. I can feel some bread-and-jam coming on - do help yourselves.
I've had quite a productive day: before making the bread, I coloured my hair, sorted the laundry* and made a paella for lunch.
Domestic Goddess Piglet is back!
* Ironing may have to wait - I'm not that much of a goddess ... ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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