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  • Dawn's story seems to be falling apart.

    I'm glad she's not in the Shadow Cabinet anymore.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    How's it going mate?
    Not bad thanks just a little tongue in cheek correction for lady G )
  • https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1292566267304579073

    At what point to we stop paying teachers?

    At what point do you want us to stop even trying to set work?

    I would much rather go back to normal. The proposal makes it about twice as hard to teach as you have to prepare two sets of lessons in detail. I’ve been doing this long enough that I’ve got a full set of normal lesson plans, but setting remote lessons means I have to start again from scratch.

    I am also someone who has just finished a three year course of cancer treatment and who was out of action for most of November having picked up pneumonia from somewhere, almost certainly school.

    If the risk is low enough then I’m more than happy to go back. After all, if I do die from it you won’t have to pay me any more.
  • rcs1000 said:

    Ahhhh... the Eagle and the next door Baron of Beef.

    In the Baron, Tolkein and CS Lewis would read each other bits from their books as they were writing them.
    Wrong loveliest small city on earth. And wrong Eagle (and Child).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inklings
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,457
    LadyG said:

    Slightly off topic. but last week I took my older daughter and her best friend on a spontaneous road trip holiday across Eastern England (as Europe looks dangerously quarantinable). We meant to go for two or three days in the end we did six, as it was such fun and the weather was so grand.

    We went from Osea Island (Essex coast) to Maldon, through Suffolk to Dedham and Lavenham (OMG!) then on to Bury St Edmunds and we finished in Cambridge.

    Without exaggeration it was sublime. East Anglia is, in parts, quite stunning. It is hard to think of any region of the world which combines rural beauty (the Stour!) with rich history, with remarkable architecture, in such a small space. Maybe Tuscany? But the food is less varied in Tuscany. We got great curries AND tapas.

    It was a delight and a revelation.

    I did wonder if it was just a one-off but the evening I returned I got an email from an old friend who had just coincidentally spent a week in north Norfolk, "swimming with seals!". She is normally a Provence or Tobago kind of girl but she said it was maybe the best holiday she'd ever had. And she used the same word: sublime.

    I wonder if one of the upsides of Covid will be the discovery that our own country, Great Britain, for all its many faults and problems, is also incredibly fascinating, storied and beautiful.

    It's a shame you are not a travel journalist who could get the Sunday Times (for example) to commission you to write about it...
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