Your dead right Drum...you've got to let them live a bit but 12s a bit young these days for me. She'll get over it
When my daughter was 12/13ish she came in and said I’m going to a party on Saturday night but it lasts until 12 o clock ( this is Monday ) I said ok. Saturday came and she said I’m going to that party tonight, I replied you can’t go, she said I said she could. I said I know but this way I didn’t have to listen to you whining on all week I only have today. Some door slamming that night
I see the Tate brothers have returned to Romania BBC News - Tates return to Romania to 'prove their innocence' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgw0w7147vo
It's in Tolmie, a little hamlet in the hills above Mansfield, Victoria. It's actually the region Ned Kelly and Harry Power used to hide from the law and it's where Kelly ended up shooting the three coppers that got him strung up. The farm's small and should be pretty easy to maintain with a dozen miniature cattle, may be able to make a little bit of money off the land but it won't be much. Which is a shame because the farmhouse/cottage is a ****ing wreck and it needs a whole lot of money putting into it. Good to get into the market though, we weren't sure we would manage with the way things are.
Good luck mate. Get some bees and start producing honey, could call it "Kelly's Gold" or something like that. My son and his wife oved down to Tassie a few years ago, both work from home so have started with Bees, chooks and veges and they're loving it. He's planning on Juniper berries next to distill his own Gin
Yeah the missus wants bees, chickens, guinea fowl to keep the snakes away, and cattle. I just want some peace and quiet in my old age. Could have definitely seen myself in Tasmania if things had worked out a little differently. Beautiful place.
It's really hard. I let my lad play out and visit the park etc, because it's better than being at home staring at a screen. I'd always make sure he's with a couple of sensible mates though. If your daughter was heading out on her own and you're uncomfortable with it, it's the right choice to say no.
Yeah we kind of saw the way it was going back when Trump was in the first time and started moving out away from where people are to where they are not. Finally paying off now he is back in and ****ing around again!
I could go on and on about this. Our Education system is completely out of date. It is not fit for purpose. I work in HE and from primary through to degree level it is broken. Fundamentally we teach the wrong things and we have a complete lack of money. On the topic of boys, they are being completely left behind by the education system. I have two lads and have had really steer them through, not always in a way the school has appreciated. There is a frightening report by an agency called HEPI out last week. It identifies a massive gender gap where boys who could go to university dont, compared to girls with a similar profile. The reasons are in the system we have, but if we are not very careful some boys will become marginalised and there are huge dangers there. Currcliculum is a massive problem imo. I had a rather lively debate with my youngest sons english teacher about his engagement, or lack thereof. He was studying one of the Bronte books (if memory serves) and I tried to explain why a 16 year old boy might not see the relevance, or gain any enjoyment, from that! She didnt see the point. Now I am a lover of literature, but if we really think teaching kids in 2020s about reading by putting Bronte or Dickens in front of them we are daft. Who knows, it may well be that if we get boys reading better, more modern books, they may realise there is more to life than influencers... Rant over but I could go on and on...
Totally agree about our education system being out of date, we need more Digital Information Technology (DIT) lessons and less classics in our comprehensives. Let them study the classics after they've been taught the basics of modern life.
I am fan mate, read Bleak House again last year. Try getting 15 year old lads to read it though, not realistic. Mind you if my two are anything to go by they wont even read a matchday programme
Watched it last night. I’ve said it before on here that I hated school and I left in 1982. Compared to now my school would have been paradise.
That is what was so frightening... and my son is in his final year... I had no idea it could be as bad as this. Scary how times have changed, lack of punishment and access to the Internet.
