I can imagine looking at those would be very emotional and evocative.
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Val P
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You are absolutely right @Vegas Toffee Girl - you never need excuses to buy clothes and shoes, they are essentials@jazzy I'm doing well, thanks for asking! I haven't started the job yet, but I have been clothes and shoe shopping!I have work outfits from before, but this is good excuse to buy more! lol Am I right?? @Gwladysover @anjelikaferrett @Val P
I also received another job opportunity! It's weird, I have had none forever then 2 pop-up within a week! This one is my backup plan just in case.
It's really, really hot here!! We've been under an Extreme Heat Warning for a week, which ends tomorrow with a chance of rain. I was out at the stable yesterday in my shorts and flipflops spraying my horse down with cold water. It was 44C.
lancs blue
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Was it rocking?@jazzy I'm doing well, thanks for asking! I haven't started the job yet, but I have been clothes and shoe shopping!
I also received another job opportunity! It's weird, I have had none forever then 2 pop-up within a week! This one is my backup plan just in case.
It's really, really hot here!! We've been under an Extreme Heat Warning for a week, which ends tomorrow with a chance of rain. I was out at the stable yesterday in my shorts and flipflops spraying my horse down with cold water. It was 44C.
I only chose a few conscious of the thread and the Current Affairs forum being on respite.
But yes, walking where Bloody Sunday happened was emotional for me but important for my kids to understand their own local history.
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Val P
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Ah too late all that’s left is this bit in a Tupperware box. 0 out of 10 for presentation. Great recipe tho - healthy one as trying to lose a bit of weight for the wedding
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Val P
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Glad you’re having a good time in LiverpoolHello all. The journey to Liverpool was wet and busy, as predicted. Having a quiet afternoon catching up with my brother and watching cricket and golf. It's nice.
@Val P thanks for the match report. We're 2 from 2 now. They all count regardless of opposition!
Decided on a takeaway tonight. Mostly to fill my Liverpool Chinese chippy cravings. Maks on Rose Lane for those who are interested. Chinese in the North East is so expensive. I will never get over this!
Have a great evening x
What is this obsession with food photos? I go to restaurants and see people taking photos of their meals ......FFS just eat it!
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Was just about to post a photo of my pint of beer then thought better of it……l
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Morning all. Dry here at the moment. Rain forecast with high winds later, which is a shame as the Willow Festival is on the river embankment for three days. Hoping to go tomorrow if the weather is ok. Have had a request from Jessica for boots for her new teddy so I guess that’s me sorted for the afternoon. Yesterday childminding went well, to my surprise they actually asked to do some maths homework, so I printed a few worksheets off, Hannah needed help with hers - fractions. I wasn’t clever enough to get O level maths but did get City and Guilds arithmetic however according to Hannah I don’t know what I’m doing. My method is completely wrong, it’s all done differently switching and flipping and a damn sight more complicated if you ask me, which no one is of course. lol
Have a good trip @anjelikaferrett, enjoy the game if possible @Val P sounds as though it may be a soggy one. I like the new away kit better than the old one though, not really a fan of bright pink, which Hannah says makes me weird!
Have a good day, all.
During the Covid lockdown I taught my granddaughter maths. Her school homework was simple adding two small numbers using the latest incredibly stupid way of doing it. I showed her how to do the old fashioned way and she quickly picked up adding four or five rows of six or seven numbers in each. I then did the same with multiplication and long division. She lapped it up and produced some stunning work. When she went back to school I tried to explain to her teacher that she may get a bit bored of adding, two, two digit numbers. They took no notice. Kids maths these days utilising all sorts of clever ways is crap. They need to go back to basics. Fortunately my granddaughter has retained everything we did together and loves maths…..
Although I see your point it could be they are doing it for a purpose and she should learn the way they teach .
Schools nowadays are not into the three Rs as there is less need for them ,computors do it all ,they just need to know how press buttons in the correct sequence and that is what they are teaching -the thought process not the maths .
My step dad had pigeons as he was the secretary of the club ,it meant he was responsible for working out who had won the races ,this was so involved it took hours and the maths though simple were anything but ,I used to help ,we would have to work out "variation" that was the actual time the bird was clocked in.The clocks were adapted ,sealed and syncronised but they were almost never totally accurate to a second .So we had to calculate the "Real time "
Then every owners loft was plotted on an O.S. map and they calculated the distance in yards from the liberation points ( They were from 79 miles to 526 miles away) then this was divided by the time in seconds to reach the speed .
So typically 255200/43200*1760 gave us yards per minute .This was all done using long division and multiplication .The best speed won
Now it is done in 5 seconds on a calculator that stores all the info .You just need to know the sequence
Bluerover
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There is a new series on the history which has just done Episode 1 so far. Really good and heartfelt interviews from people on all sides.
Once upon a time on Northern Irelannd in 5 parts. On RTEPlayer.
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Val P
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It’s interesting how things change over time. I scraped a grade D o level maths - couldn’t use calculators then - but thanks to calculators and software systems it’s never really held me back, and even though I was dreading doing stats etc for my masters dissertation, programmes such as SPSS really saved my embarrassment.
The other thing was typing. My parents were horrified that I did shorthand and typing instead of another A level, but touch typing has been a godsend over the years as computers were introduced and now we use a keyboard so frequently. I remember in the hospital getting a computer for the whole team to use and we used to have to take turns to use it - it’s just unimaginable nowadays.
The other thing was typing. My parents were horrified that I did shorthand and typing instead of another A level, but touch typing has been a godsend over the years as computers were introduced and now we use a keyboard so frequently. I remember in the hospital getting a computer for the whole team to use and we used to have to take turns to use it - it’s just unimaginable nowadays.
Very interesting points Val.
I was probably the opposite.
Despite working my way up through the legal profession from office junior to telephonist to trainee legal executive to solicitor and eventually partner I never managed to master typing or acquire decent keyboard or IT skills.
In part this was a generational issue but in all honesty I never got to grips with it despite enrolling and paying myself for a touch typing course.
As a legal executive and solicitor I always had a secretary and as a partner a PA.
Towards the end of my career all solicitors were encouraged to do their own typing.
Increasingly secretaries were made redundant.
I disagreed. It was a shortsighted and backwards step. Not because solicitors shouldn't type but a trained secretary will be faster , more accurate and generally be error free.
It was absurd to expect senior solicitors working in my team on catastrophic injury claims where you will often have to produce a witness statement over 30 pages long to not only draft it but then type it .
Anyway it was all part of a move for "efficiency" which saw things done quicker and with less staff and which in reality meant a significant lowering of quality and standards and ultimately impacted upon the client
So , I saw the writing in the wall and got out before my own standards were compromised.
I suspect that what happened in the legal profession is mirrored in other areas.
Morning everyone,
Well a very wet morning follows a very wet night , certainly no need to water my new tree optical garden or mums cottage garden so every cloud and all that.
Off to my yoga session this morning and if it's still raining watch the golf and perhaps cricket this afternoon.
Thanks to @Val P for the match report. I managed to watch a bit of the game on YouTube. Some of the build up play was good but we looked clueless and toothless in the final third. In all honesty I don't how Maupay can look himself in the mirror and pick up his wage.
Anyway if we can get a couple of strikers then we should safely stay up. I'd like to say if DCL stays fit but that would be daft
Anyway have a lovely day everyone.
Well a very wet morning follows a very wet night , certainly no need to water my new tree optical garden or mums cottage garden so every cloud and all that.
Off to my yoga session this morning and if it's still raining watch the golf and perhaps cricket this afternoon.
Thanks to @Val P for the match report. I managed to watch a bit of the game on YouTube. Some of the build up play was good but we looked clueless and toothless in the final third. In all honesty I don't how Maupay can look himself in the mirror and pick up his wage.
Anyway if we can get a couple of strikers then we should safely stay up. I'd like to say if DCL stays fit but that would be daft
Anyway have a lovely day everyone.