Elinor
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Maintained Nursery School HT. Honorary Brummie. Nigella wannabe. Big fan of cheese. Got a dog and won’t stop wanging on about it. Views my own. 🏴
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I’m not the kind of HT that emails staff on a Sat night, but to know whether or not I will have enough staff on Monday to ‘safely open’ I am going to need to email them this weekend.
My staff shouldn’t have to be in this position and neither should I. Absolute omnishambles.
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Today, a child who’s chosen not to speak at school since Sept turned to me as he was going home and said ‘I’ve got my hat on!’
I smiled, said it was a beautiful hat, waved... then closed the gate, jumped around, punched the air & danced. My heart! 😊😊😊
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During the final jaunt, a twinkly walk by the canal, there was a surprise.... congratulations to me! I am engaged! 😃🤩😍💚
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Allow me to share with you my favourite ever thing that a child has made in our school.
Behold, a mermaid 😍😁
#EYTwitterTagTeam
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You know what 2020 actually needs, don’t you?
A very big, very wet, carefully folded green paper towel.
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It’s so hard squeezing your whole life into those 2 hours at home, after tea, before bed, 5 days a week.
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I’m wearing this cardi today (over a black dress, may I add, not a crop top!)
As I went to open the gates this morning one of our children shouted “Here she is! The rainbow is coming!”
It’s made me smile all day 🌈☺️🌈
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A while ago I posted how leading a school through Covid had changed me. What I didn’t do was show any of the physical effects.
Last week I had the most personally devastating side effect corrected, and now I feel I can face another term.
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Anyone else have songs that make them immediately tear up when they come on the radio/playlist?
Not because it’s necessarily a sad song but because it brings back a certain time/phase of life/event.
It’s mad.
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At an event, I ran into someone from a school I used to teach at, where I cried every day in the car all the way to work and all the way home again.
When we went round and gave our job titles, their jaw dropped.
Not every school is right for every person. Find your fit.
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Dave’s boss has just sent us a bottle of Bollinger and matching glasses.
My boss has emailed to ask if I would like to open my school during the summer holidays.
And that, my friends, is the difference between the public and private sectors 💁🏻♀️
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Just to clarify, we are all just going about our business as usual, holding it together, smiling and doing fine, then dissolving into tears over a mistake on the rota or not parking our car straight. Yes? 😳
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During our calls to families today we had a lot of parents saying their children have started swearing.
Ususally they would insist they must have picked it up in Nursery, but now... 🤔
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Well, I used the snipping tool today for the first time. This alone has been worth joining Twitter for.
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Seeing lots of people getting jobs in their ‘dream school’. It’s lovely ☺️
I’ll tell you what my ‘dream school’ is: one that starts at 11am and lets you wear pyjamas.
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New addition to the staffroom. Anything to get us through the next week 🍬🍫🍭
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I am so sad.
I’ve held it together reasonably well since March with the whole running a school on my own in a pandemic, losing my hair & being responsible for people’s lives thing, but this has defeated me.
I had been living for 3 days with my Dad and sister and I am broken.
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Day 1 with children was absolutely lush, I did a little excited dance in my office before opening the gates 💃🏻
Today’s qute of the day... ‘I was glad to leave my mum at the gate, to be honest. She’s been doing my head in!’ 😂
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3 y/o: I’ve made a robot, and it’s a speaking one.
Teacher: Oh wow, what does it say?
3 y/o: “F*ck off”
Teacher: Oh right... that’s not a word we use in school.
3 y/o: I never say it. The robot does though. ALL THE TIME. F*ck off!
🤷🏻♀️😂
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Today I have been a cleaner, a dinner lady, a plumber, an office manager, a teacher, a friend, a magician (with my finances!), a housing advisor and a counsellor.
Not a single bit of Headteachering has taken place, and yet also all the Headteachering has taken place.
🍷
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I bought an absolutely huge half whisky barrel for outside the front door as I’d ordered 5 lavender plants and wanted a big, fragrant, bushy mass in it.
The lavender plants arrived today. These are they:
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Don’t tell anyone, but sometimes I do nice things for people and I don’t even post them on Twitter...
I hope they still count 😬
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I bought the Quality Street where you can choose which ones you get in it. No toffees, coffee, creams or coconut.
HAPPY. FLIPPING. DAYS. 😍
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We have a lovely student on placement here and she was just observed by her tutor.
👩🏻🦰Student (to child): Ok, tell me, what happened when you saw the train?
👦🏼Child: It was a green train and it was going so fast I nearly shit myself.
👩🏻🦰Student: 😳
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Off I pop to fully open my magically immune school with a full compliment of magically immune staff, children and families.
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I’ve just been to a wedding reception on my own where the only person I knew was the bride.
It was an absolutely huge deal for me and I almost left straight away but I stuck it out and some kind people took me under their wing.
Gorgeous wedding, beautiful bride, proud me 😊
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I’m doing Book Blind Date for our staff for World Book Day and I can’t wait! 🤩
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Only in EYFS would you take a prospective parent on a tour of the school, only to be greeted by a child parading from the toilets, pants round their ankles, bobble hat on and conducting an imaginary orchestra with a spatula... 😳
#EYTwitterTagTeam
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Just spent 10 minutes carefully untangling the bottom of my maxi dress from the wheels of my office chair.
I didn’t put *that* on my Risk Assessment...
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Christmas miracle: found this hiding behind a display of Port.
The lady on the checkout was SHOOKETH.
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Best tally chart survey a pair of my Y1s ever did had the question ‘Do you have a goldfish?’ Answer choices were:
A) Yes
B) No
C) Nearly
When questioned about option C, they clarified:
‘You know, if you’re just saving up for one,’
‘Yeah, or if you’ve just got a tadpole’
😁
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I’m always excited when it’s half term, but I don’t know if I’ve ever needed it *this* much so early in the academic year before.
This half term’s been a right corker, hasn’t it?? 😳
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Ofsted rang to speak to me today, wouldn’t say what it was about, & my life flashed before my eyes in the time it took to transfer the call.
We’d been chosen for some research! I said I was happy to participate but she should be aware she’d just shaved 10 yrs off my life. 😱
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The tweets of ‘My daughter/son doesn’t think they are beautiful/clever/talented, let’s prove them wrong by showing how many likes they can get’ don’t sit well with me.
IMO, what you should be showing them is how not to seek validation from others, esp strangers on social media.
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Last week, when we had the ‘big return’, all our children were great, skipped into school with giant smiles.
This week it’s almost like they’ve realised ‘Hang on, we have to do this *every week*??’ The novelty’s totally worn off.
Similar thing with staff tiredness levels. 😴
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LOOK AT THIS!!
Bottle of fizz and twenty quid packed away with your Christmas decorations so next year you can have an instant tipple and a takeaway while you put them up.
This is absolute GENIUS 🍾
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Done a 3 hour round trip to collect furniture for our role play area off Facebook marketplace.
Can we just fund schools properly already?
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OH MY GOD.
Sorting through a box of my Mum’s books. She was a primary Head and acquired all sorts of education-ish curiosities. FOUND THIS BOOK.
Thank goodness we have moved on...
(Who knows where she got it, as she wasn’t old enough to be teaching in 1956!)
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Things Ofsted have been Deep Diving in Nursery Schools: Writing, Reading & Maths.
Things Ofsted really should be Deep Diving in Nursery Schools: PSED.
Nothing makes you more ‘school ready’ than being a well rounded, confident and inquisitive human .
#eyfs
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Today a few of our children cottoned on to the fact that they might get sent home if they coughed a lot.
It’s been quite a day... 🙄
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Something I find relatively easy as a teacher/HT: having days/nights where I don’t take paperwork home with me. Most things can wait a day.
Something I find incredibly difficult as a teacher/HT: not taking work home with me in my head. These are the things that can consume me.
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This is an incredibly boring tweet to most people, I would imagine, but it’s fascinating to me.
We have no children with J names this year. None at all.
Gone are the days of Josh, Joseph, Jay, Jack, Jonah, Jonathan, Jamie, Jude, Josiah, Jade, Jemma, Josie and James.
👋🏻
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Just to put my mind at ease, we are all absolute emotional wrecks at the moment, yes? Simply existing in the spaces between crying and/or planning our escape to Tazmania?
4 days to go, Warner. Pull yourself together, woman. 💪🏻😭🎄
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have just purchased a wedding dress 😱
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Got to Sainsbury’s at 06:05 and now sat waiting for M&S to open. I’m here early because shopping at busy times stresses me out... and because I want to spend the rest of the day being a pig in a blanket.
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It’s Friday. It’s 4 o’clock. We have all had an immeasurably hard week. We don’t know if or when we will see many of our children again. Writing this tweet has been the thing that’s finally brought the tears.
This eve I will be raising a glass to us, and to ALL our children 💚
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Today had been Quite A Day™️
Never has a truer word been spoken than this:
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It’s Friday. It’s 4 o’clock. It’s been a 17 day week.
Shall we all have some wine then?
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At the end of briefing tonight I spent 5 mins explaining to my staff about my hair and why it looked different, to head off any gossip.
Came home and found it is Alopecia Awareness Month. Felt like it was meant to be.
#alopeciaawarenessmonth
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Not exactly a serious issue, but what are we all doing about our nails, eyebrows, waxing etc? Tips?
I fear I may be starting summer as the lovechild of Mr Tumnus and Chewbacca.
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A year ago today I left school and cried in my car after we said goodbye to most of our children for months.
Today we registered 3 new children to start next week. Those children are the human equivalent of crocuses forcing their way through after a bleak winter 😊 🌷
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Remember when we used to be really excited for the last day of term instead of just bemused?
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I will add that I have always had fine/thinner hair but since March I had/have accelerated and significant hair loss.
This is a majorly personal thing for me to post about but I think it’s important that we talk about the lasting effects this year has had on many educators.
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This is probably the only decent school tip I will ever give:
If you have short arms and windows that open/blow open outwards, use a spaghetti measurer 🍝
(At home I use a potato masher for this, got to keep things fresh 😎)
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We had 1 child in school today. I like having children in school, it’s the whole point of schools.
Did stop and think though, we use 5 or 6 staff* to facilitate the care of that 1 child. At what point is this ridiculous?
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Very sad to find that going to school wrapped in your duvet is seen as ‘unprofessional’ 🙄
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Oooh, my Dad’s just sent me an Easter Egg!
And by ‘Easter’ I mean ‘voucher’ and by ‘Egg’ I mean ‘for wine’ 😊
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I feel a bit sick today. Not poorly sick, but worried sick about opening on Monday.
I don’t know what else I could/can do to make things safe, but I’m not an expert.
The fact the council wants a signed ‘declaration’ from me doesn’t really allay my fears...
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Usually I never take a lunch break as it’s just easier to carry on and chomp away at my desk, but this week I’ve made a point of sitting quietly for 20 mins and reading my book.
It’s honestly made a huge difference to how I feel all afternoon. You can’t pour from an empty cup.
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Just read that £27.40 of random spending each day is the equivalent of blowing £10k a year.
So that’s going to be a sobering thought on my regular ‘pop to the shop on the way home’ and ‘I’ll just grab that off Amazon’ 😳
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It’s Friday. It’s half past 4. It’s been a very, very weird week.
Wine, yeah? 🍷
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Forget America, things are kicking right off here. A child who is in a tizz has refused, yes REFUSED, both a wet paper towel AND a little drink of water.
We have never seen the like. Absolute scenes.
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I’ve spent the past week deep cleaning, organising and de-cluttering the house.
I’ve gone through boxes & bags of stuff that hadn’t been touched since my Mam died in 2012. I finally feel I don’t have to cling on to every item she ever touched/owned.
It feels good. Right. 💚
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I’ve had a lovely day but my mind is racing tonight, my chest aches and I feel sick. I’m anxious. I’m worried about the week ahead and what it may bring.
We are all trying our best but there isn’t really anything normal about the ‘new normal’.
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I wrote a curt email to a professional today asking why they hadn’t come at 11am as promised, hoped all was ok but also being displeased that a week’s been lost.
Turns out it’s only Thursday & not Friday today. So they’ll be coming tomorrow, as arranged 🙈😬
#GrovelAndCringe
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I booked the Drive-In cinema as it was the only allowable Christmas thing I could find. It was too expensive to cancel...
So we are shortly off to watch Love Actually. I’ve packed a big hamper of snacks, some bottles of snowball for Dave, a pillow and my duvet. Oh my.
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It’s Friday. It’s half past 4. It’s the end of the longest short half term ever.
Wine, anyone? 🍷
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It’s not the workload that’s the kicker, in Headship, because all teachers do so much.
It’s the *nature* of the workload. That overarching responsibility for everyone and everything. Mistakes that aren’t your own. Problems you can never solve. Some wks that can be overwhelming.
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We all use our cars as an extension of our house/handbag/office/shoe rack/cupboard under the stairs for storing and carting about hoards of random tat, yes?
Please say yes. 🚗
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Bought 2 non essentials in my food shop today.
1. Tulips, because they are beautiful and look gorgeous in the sunshiney kitchen.
2. Truffle Pesto, because if I’m going to be a housebound, anxious wreck then, by Jove, I’m going to do it in style. 😎
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Twitter, I’m totally overwhelmed by your kindness & messages about my hair post. Thank you- it was a big & exposing thing to put out there and you’ve been amazing.
I had a little cry reading some of your messages at brunch this morn, and will reply to you all asap 🥰
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Yes, there’ll be a small percentage of families who will abuse the FSM system... just like there were a ‘small percentage’ of MPs who abused the expenses system for, tbh, a lot more than the cost of a tin of beans.
But don’t penalise the many because of the few. Classroom 101.
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Twitter, we are getting a dog. Waaaahhhhhh!
We’ve waited since before the pregnancy was even confirmed, then she was born in Jan and it has seemed like forever, but in 4 weeks she is finally coming home! ❤️🐕🦺
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What’s that? We won a competition for 100 Easter eggs?
Happy Monday to us! 🐣
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I have written to Amanda Spielman, the Chief Inspector of Schools, to express my concern that there are never enough green ones in Opal Fruits.
I have written to Amanda , the Chief Inspector of Schools, to express concern that none of my clothes seem to fit me since lockdown.
#askamanda
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We have a new floor! Hooray!
Now time for wine and a takeaway 🥰
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Our cleaners are off this week and I have been opening school at 4:50-5am each day for the (brilliant and v efficient) cover cleaner as we couldn’t get anyone to do it after school.
Dudes, I am a barely functional human. 😴
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Real Covid-19 HT talk:
For me personally, I can’t imagine feeling ‘normal’ again. I feel permanently changed by the situation and the mental and emotional challenges of the past months. I can’t just flick a switch and be ‘the old me’. At times I’ve felt completely broken.
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When I have potentially scary meetings I will often wear the dress I wore to my Headship interview. I’m calling it The Dress of Success.
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This is usually my favourite fortnight of my favourite term. I have the festive jumper and earrings and I am going through all the normal plans and activities and motions.
But I’m just really sad.
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Maybe it’s just an Early Years thing but, in our school, if the corridors are silent then you worry. 😬
#EYTwitterTagTeam
#SilentCorridors
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And to finish off my festive day I have reorganised one of my Christmas wrapping bags 😂😂
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After first seeing them on here last year I found someone to make one these for each of my staff for Christmas! (Yes, I know it’s easier in a small school etc etc)
Not going to tell them what they are... cannot wait for the panicked smiles when I ask if they’ve used them yet 😁
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Just started watching The Stranger on Netflix and it turns out I will be welded to my sofa for the forseeable.
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I wonder if any HT has ever hibernated from mid July to September. I am willing to be the first person to see if it’s possible.
I have the fat reserves and I’m super tired, so I seem pretty well prepared... 🤔
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I’ve been worried about my Dad these last weeks. He is a pensioner, widower and lives 2 hours away from me.
Today he sent me this. Not only has he found toilet rolls but is also taking their security seriously. Think he is going to be fine 😂
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Dinner!
The Plan: Booked the chef’s table at a fine dining restaurant. 12 course tasting menu and paired drinks.
The Lockdown Plan: Made my own 12 course tasting menu and paired drinks. One course was a pork scratching paired with Ribena.
Verdict: Different...
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If you (someone who is usually the household meal planner) had a whole weekend to yourself and didn’t have to think about feeding anyone else, what would you eat?
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It’s Friday. It’s 4 o’clock. It’s kind of the Easter holidays and kind of not.
Anyone for wine? 🍷
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After many weeks of lockdown, in my house, one of us asking the other if they ‘fancy a bit of jiggy-jiggy’ means ‘Do you want to do another half hour of the jigsaw?’
(‘A quickie’ is a swift 10 minutes of piece sorting while the tea’s on)
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I’ve made a timetable of when to watch my favourite Christmas films (I’m exciting like that).
Which ones am I missing?
Muppets on Christmas Eve is non negotiable.
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After today we only have 19 school days left this academic year. 19!
It had been both the longest and the shortest school year ever.
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