Right I am with you on this frozen isle. Real ale still tastes good, but I am holding back a bit until I get to Dorset tomorrow, a county with some interesting brews.
welcome " home" OFH! We have some of the clan over from Melbourne this week and they're caning the real ale. it really is uniquely British.
In the immortal words of Jim Reeves - "Welcome to my world" - and I'm only a Primary School teacher. It really is alarming to watch & listen to the new intake every year - the attitude, behaviour, indiscipline, lack of self control etc gets worse year after year, as does the incidence of lack of toilet training - a complete lack of proper parenting really. What is worse though - and totally puzzling - is that this is how the powers-that-be want them to be in school, which highlights the dangers of letting mere politicians meddle with the education system. I honestly fear for for the future....
Sæl öll. Cappuccino, coffee, tea donuts and fruit are on the bar. Frothy cappuccinos for for al, HH, and W_Y Coffee and cramel frapachino for IB Coffees for COYH, Frenchie, Kev rob theo and vic-rijrode Strong coffee for Sandy Milky coffee for Yorkie Espresso for SuffolkHorn Strong black coffees for Bragi Norway and zen Black coffee half hot half cold and no sugar for Charlie A peppermint latte for DanH Tea for BHD Cornish Mark jsybarry jerzeypie Lloydinio and BCFCRed Tea with skimmed milk and no sugar for GG and Leon Hot chocolate with marshmallows for BBW Caramel latte for Hornette Scullion Canary Dave Fossefilberto and Maestro Una paloma for Mexican Hornet Redwine for NZ and kiwiqpr as they are ahead of us in time Today is the big day. If we beat Kýpur we are almost in the play off matches for HM2014. The only bad point is that Kýpur have won only one time in this competition ang you can guess who they had beat. The weather is good today. We have 15C and high and cotton wool type clouds.
Anyone able to precis the story in today's Wobby re the club's High Court battle with the Baz creditors?
Having a day off today as it's really going to be nice this w/e and I want to get stuck into the garden. First frost this morning with temp at 30F (sorry don't do funny money temps), we are on the other side of AK's high which is dragging N winds in our direction. Had a bit of a lie in and had time to enjoy AK's latte properly (thanks AK). Enjoy your beer OFH, I always look forward to my trips across the border to enjoy the ale. Last week when I was in Colonsay I asked for a bottle of their IPA brewed in the micro brewery on the Island. The waitress went and got a bottle out of the chiller but luckily I stopped her before she got the top off. The only one not chilled was on display so I had that and enjoyed the flavour. I have bottle of their 80/- for tonights England match, may the football gods be with us.
I hear it every day as well BB. Mrs W_Y is a nursery nurse (training to be a teacher) in a nursery in bandit central. It is shocking and sometimes heartbreaking to hear the stories she tells - children (well some are still babies, particulary the little Asian boys) that have no toilet training, many with little or no English, children of drug dealers, children with huge emotional and learning difficulties and their parents do not give a toss. Now the government want to lower the entry age and "give" the children more hours over the 15 they currently get! Lot's of things swept under the carpet for fear of the R word - there is a huge problem in bandit country with Asian children with impaired eyesight because of the inbreeding with cousins marrying cousins - but you will never hear about that on the BBC.
Afternoon all. Rain here this morning, which is great as it's the Jersey Rally today and tomorrow and the rain makes it a lot more interesting. I wonder how many will be in the trophy rally tomorrow as they've crashed out today. I never hear of anything like the situations mentioned above in our education and nursery system and on an island this size, you'd definitely hear about it. There are children of Portugese parents who may or may not be able to speak English - I only hear them talking to their parents when they're on their way to school, so naturally, they are speaking Portugese. If I remember correctly from when my 2 were little, there was a noticable difference in the standard of English between those who had been at a nursery where they could go from about 6 months old to those who started at 2 and then again to those who started with nursery class at primary school.
That sounds worryingly similar to a coastal town near to here where I have had the misfortune to work - although the 'problem' children in that respect are the locals and not from the large Eastern European population there, who in the main are excellent, although the boys do tend to be overly chauvinistic. My wife is a nursery teacher and also brings home similar horror stories. Having done five years in nursery followed by three with P1, she had asked to move up to P2 this year - but the school asked her to go back to nursery. It was only after agreeing that she realised they had done the dirty on her - they announced that the LA had removed funding for Special Needs children in the nursery & all children in that category would be catered for in mainstream. Out of an enrolment of a hundred and twenty - eighteen are in that category, which makes life difficult & nigh on impossible for the six adults working there. I don't suppose that the BBC give a toss about that either...
They obviously follow this board..... http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/ne...gacy_lingers_on_as_money_lenders_sue_Hornets/
We do not have many foreign children, but the numbers are getting larger. Most come from Poland. Last year there were nearly 26000 not Ãslandic people, so far they have produced 3200 children. Polish were about 14000.
Its FERAC, Friday Evening Real Ale Club meeting tonight at the Swan in Bushey, 4 good Ales plus a real cider, plus usual eurokeg fizzypop lagers for the less concerned about flavour and quality
