Latest moan from me and you!!!

thank goodness they don't have puppies/ kittens in petshops here, there's no way i'd have the will power to walk away.

 

And don't forget if you plug in a generater to your elec to switch off the main trip

 

Not sure, but i think you have the tell the elec people you are using a generater

 

I'm busy selling Snowdrops on Ebay and giving the money to a hegdehog santuary so the old man who runs it can buy lots of dog food for his LARGE hedgie population. Someone asked for 500 and so I did a buy it now for him. This is quite an expensive way to sell stuff on Ebay (fees) rather than doing a listing by auction. I reckoned 500 plus some would be £5.20 in postage so that's what I asked for ... wrong.I packaged up 500 ++++ quite a few extras and went down to the PO. The flaming parcel cost £8.00 to post 2nd class. Hell's teeth so by the time I'd paid the extra postage and the Ebay fees plus fuel to get me to the PO which isn't just down the road, I won't have made that much for the cause grrr. Oh yes and it's quite hard work digging up the bulbs in the 1st place far less the mind blowingly boring job of counting them! At least the buyers will get ooober fresh bulbs unlike those wizened things you see hanging about in garden centres which are very likely dead!Suppose I still made quite a few bob, it's the huge postage cost for really what wasn't a big or heavy parcel that prompted this moan. God knows what postage will be in the future now that it is no longer Royal Mail.End of moan and need to go and get digging as sold some more!

 

Looking forward to mine coming up Silu.

 

What's all this about "You can't invite selected members of your class to your birthday party - unless you invite the whole class".
Since when has a Head teacher been given authority to lay down rules like that!!
You couldn't make it up.....
Jenny

 

Is this regarding Kingswood Preparatory School in Bath, Jenny?

Seems to be another of those 'sensationalist' headlines (depending on which news you read). It appears to have been taken out of context when you read around. The Head asked that invitations should not be handed out in school unless the whole class is invited (which is quite different).

 

Thought it was a private school and class sizes were half that?

Ultimately, the Head's argument is flawed in any event *if* his intention is to prevent divisiveness and any negative impact on the children not invited ... as if the children who go are never, ever going to mention it either before or after? But, I still believe he was well intentioned.

If the parents choose to circumvent the Head's suggestion, then, in my book that says far more about the parents than it does the school. If handing them out at the school or, seemingly second best, at the school gate is the only option, I may have agreed with you. But, in this day and age? With social media? Mobile phones? Email? There are so many other options available.

 

According to one of the reports I have read: