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Trixie, you sound like a Teachers Delight.  ;D ;D ;D
Wish I'd been a fly on the wall. (do you think Mabel would have eaten me though?) I am also pleased to note that Alfie is a chip off the old block.  ;)

Manics! Glad to cheer you up  ;D It cheered me up too - especially when Mabel flapped her wings and all the kids went screaming into 4 corners of the playground  ;D

Emaggie! I come from a whole family of teachers (primary school, nursery, headmasters, heads of department, PE teachers and the odd (very odd!) university professor.

I LIVE to wind them up! Pity the OFSTED reporters weren't in!

Mabel wouldn't have eaten you. She hasn't got the teeth or the sense  ;D

In fact the teachers said "Isn't she good with the kids. She's a very clever chicken isn't she children?"

Erm .. no ... not really .. she's got the brain the size of that pea you've just planted children!

but she brightens up yours, and our, lives  ;D

She didn't brighten up the classroom floor!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Lovely pong, chicken poo... ;D

"And let's all put the chicken pooh in the compost children!"  ;D

I took my bantam Sally into assembly once, we had hatched her from an egg is school so I took her back to show the children how she had grown & to show one of her eggs.  She was sitting quietly on my lap while I was talking about her when something scared her & she flew down right into the midst of the new reception class who all started screaming & trying to get away with poor Sally nearly trampled to death in the middle.  All the adults present were in hysterics - right I thought that's the last time I do that - until Sally hatched some ducklings which I just had to take and show them but that's another story.  :)

This thread has had me crying with laughter! My daughter is in reception and they have had an incubator of chicky eggs to hatch out over past fortnight. They started hatching last week and go back to the farm today. Watching these poor little chicks cheeping for help, having their eyes squeezed out of their heads by overly enthusiastic 5 year olds was bit too much for me so I scarpered! Freya snaffled one and took it to book corner to fuss it properly.
I've always wanted to start a little gardening club at the school, but the parent that has strangle hold on all that is complete tos*er, really overbearing and big pretentious git. So I haven't.  ;D

Shame about that Emmy. I missed being a 'helping Mum' when mine moved schools.

Quote from: Doris_Pinks on March 28, 2007, 18:16:27
Just make an apple pie afterwards, cleans them nails up good n proper! ;) ;D
PS: Feed to someone else you dislike! ;D

Ummmm - I shall be forever wary of eating a Slice of "Ye olde home made Apple pie" - whilst visiting open gardens where theres a lot of poo in evidence.......

Louise

 ;D ;D ;D  Or round my house if I have been up the plot all day! ;) ;D

Eeeew  ;D

Lovely day up at the allotment today - although it looks like I'm running out of room for all the seed packets I've got to plant  ::)

Ahmed and Jack had a little 'spat' which marred the day. It started with the 'correct' way to transplant lettuces and ended up with a full-scale argument about setting beetroot.

Ahmed had 'his' way, Jack had 'his' way and I had MY way!

I've never heard such petty bickering in all my life! They stood watching me prepare the rows and NEVER SHUT UP for about 20 minutes.

So in the end I set 3 rows of beetroot in the 3 styles suggested, put labels on them all (Ahmed, Jack, Trixie) said it was a competition and told them both to P**S OFF!

Of course they immediately became the best of friends again and wandered off into the shed to complain about me and my 'fancy ways'.

I think it was easier planting with the nursery kids at school last week  ::)

Looked like a perfect afternoon for the lottie. Boy, was I wrong! The sky went navy, thunder rumbled, torrential rain and gale force wind. I was working in the greenhouse, and decided to get out of there pretty quick, as it felt like it was going to explode with the force of the wind.

I was planning to transplant some toms into pots in there, but they are sat on the greenhouse path in their original pots. I wasn't going to hang about!

It's SO frustrating not being able to do what was planned :( Ah well , there's always tomorrow ;D

The wind is still howling tonight. Hope it stops soon.

cj :)

still going to be a grandma, 12 weeks on and everything still seems o.k, (keeping my voice low)..do you think it'll be o.k. to buy some of the nappies netto are getting in on monday, 90 huggies for 9.99
we're still nervous but sam feels o.k..she had lost the last baby by now, she's still worried and doesn't have her scan for 2 more weeks
it just seems too good a bargain to miss, I'll hide them from her and say nothing   :)

Really pleased it's still going well - please let us know how the scan goes.  Hope he/she inherits grandma's nose for a bargain.  :)

Glad it's going well Manics! I'm a grandma ... did you know?!?

We have strange and wondrous hormones in our family. We either give birth when we're 16 or 40yrs old. This makes family trees a bit confusing and family gatherings a positive delight.

All the kids (and some of the adults) are asking "So ... are you my sister or my Aunt? Are you my cousin? Is that my nephew or my uncle over there?"

My dad once brought my little brother (a month younger than my own daughter) to see us. He introduced my daughter as 'Your big sister'!!!

Utterly DREADFUL mistake to make if you consider the genetics of it all ... but he was genuinely confused  ::)

It's been bl**dy FREEZING here today. I've had to resort to digging to keep warm.

Great news manics. :D This must be THE year for having a baby. We're still in one piece here,(or at least daughter 1 is) and we've got to 27 weeks now. Keeping everything crossed for both. Not allowed to buy anything yet though, but I confess to having hidden some little bits away. ;D
Trixie, that sounds too confusing  ;D
Too chilly for lottie today, but I have been industrious in my garden at home. Will have to muck out indoors tonight as we have company for supper tomorrow AND I'M GOING TO THE LOTTIE TOMORROW COME HELL OR HIGH WATER-so there ;D

Started some beetroot in greenhouse, transplanted it yesterday with bloke from another plot tutting and sucking through his teeth telling me HE didn't think you could do it like that and HE was going home to look it up in his book. ;D ;D ;D

yes, we still haven't told Callum, he's only 8 and didn't understand why mummy was pregnant, then not..didn't go to the plot today, too bl**dy cold then went to the hospital,
they've given me a t.e.n.s. machine to try for 2 weeks, then i can buy one if I want, no vat to pay..wierd feeling, like pins and needles, think I'll start a thread, ask if anyone's ever used  one ,
glad you're a grandma too, trixie, nothing beats it, does it..
maggie, so glad everything's going well... d'ya know what it is yet or are they waiting 'til it's born?

They are waiting and I'm very glad. Her friend gave birth to the expected son 3 weeks ago, it seemed weird knowing, even for us.
What's the tens machine for manics, is it pain relief?

ye, I hate moaning, I am unable(hate can't) to take strong painkillers, nsaids, etc 'cos of ibs, generalised osteo, so, they've given me this wierd thing to try.. ;D