Yeah, I remember walking round after my mam as she was cleaning floors and stuff reading to her.  

everytime I get frustrated with trying to explain myself..    you post something that makes me laugh! 

Well, skylark, I remember having fresh milk in one of those big milk troughs every morning, fresh rolls beside the gate too, my mum used to go to the deli and had a chair to sit on while she read out her shopping list, but she carried it home herself. When we had the first self serving store, she was very enthusiastic, even though there wasn't a chair. She managed to spread her needs between the deli, the shop and the apothecary.

well..   yes.. 

in the world of rainbows, unicorns & singing woodland animals!

The little shits have parents....the little shits blocked the streets for the real criminals... 

The little shits don't stand a chance.............

What is your "Real World" answer ?

When I was at primary school the local shop had a child size knitting machine. It was £5.

Not a lot in today's terms, but quite a lot to a child who only got about 3 or 4 shillings for pocket money.

I saved my pocket money 'til I had that £5 and so 'bought it myself. I was so pleased with it and so proud that I had effectively 'got it myself'. I was on tenterhooks all the time I was saving, in case it got sold before I had enough money saved up. I would have been very disappointed if it had, I may well have cried, but at no point would it have crossed my mind to either steal it or do some criminal damage if I hadn't got it.

Or like the year when my sister and I 'asked' Santa for roller skates.

Got up on Christmas morning and there were(among other things) two boxes the same size as each other that COULD have held roller skates. Turned out they held toy telephones that could be wired together but used in different room and you could actually talk to each other.

I suppose we were marginally disappointed that they weren't skates, but we were quite happy with them.

i really want to comment-but i wont

Lucky you, my mother maybe would have lived longer had she not worked herself to the bone. we didnt have those luxuries 

You won't upset me if you want to disagree with me Pirate.....

Ducky, maths is great.

I think I just feel it more because I had to learn the English language to be able to live here and now it seems to be bastardised and I just wish that school teachers wouldn't go along with it.

I'll get my coat.

education is there

its available-its up to you to use it to your advantage

i didnt

im like this

but i know right from wrong

and

i would never hurt someone

Skylark, I'm sorry. My mum and dad adopted me and she died when I was 22. My dad died when I was 8, but because of them, I have some really good memories of the fifties and sixties.

*taps foot*

Z.

its closer to it that you are

off to the pub for a bit

have a nice evening

none of that

 me too.......

Ducky! PUT DOWN THE MATCHES AND BACK AWAY FROM THE PAPER PLATES!

Ditty, I agree. The funny thing was though that we all loved the job and loved the people in the home, even though they would get grumpy. It was a really good caring place, but had to close down due to lack of funds. Worse luck.

No coat needed

Language evolves all the time Cologne....if it didn't we would all be talking like Shakespeare...and I'm very grateful we don't, cos I can't understand a word the man says! I don't have a problem with English not being technically correct in every situation, I happen to think language would be very boring if it was. For example, a lot of humour comes from bastardising language.

I use a lot a slang on here that I would never use at school, and in my experience the vast majority of teachers have a very good standard of English. None of us are perfect though. We're specialists in our own subject, that's the most important thing.

I have come across a Maths teacher whose English was appalling.... he gave me a lot of worksheets he had made himself electronically, and I gave up using them in the end because it was taking me ages to correct all the grammar.

BUT.... this man came from a very poor family with incredibly low aspirations. His Dad used to beat him regularly....his siblings are still jobless and have been to prison often. He worked his way through all that and aimed higher! And you know what....the kids in his class knew he didn't have the best language skills, but they didn't half respect him as a teacher!

Actually working in a care home I think can be a rewarding job..   I don't put this in the loo cleaning category (its not poo I have an issue with...  I have worked with the poo of the public when I worked in the hospital lab)..  

And..  it really is a job I think needs to be paid alot more than it does at the moment..  its caring for old & vunerable people..   its an area I really believe needs a complete overhaul. 

Awww..   I like that!

Ducky, I agree with you about language evolving. When I went back home 2 years ago, I was at a complete loss because the German language had marched on (mainly towards English ), but I still think that the basic grammatical structure of the lanuage should stay because without it, we might as well go back hundreds of years. Still, it's not the b all and end all. My kittens have discovered how to get out the window and it's mayhem in my house atm. Mother Mutley is trying to guard them and I'm half in and out of the front of the house, telling them to get back in. God help us when I fall asleep.

awwww that's nice Ducky - respecting a teacher for the ability in their specialised field is half the battle because then the little cherubs are more likely to engage with the subject and enjoy it in addition to becoming more proficient    imo anyway 

They also believed the totally made up rumours he was a cage fighter in his spare time. That helped

So that teacher took advantage of what was on offer and pulled himself up by his bootstraps....something the *I want* generation are not prepared to do. They chose not to take advantage of the education on offer and ended up unable to string a coherent sentence together rendering themselves virtually unemployable.

reminds me of when I first started senior school in England - one of the teachers was horrible to me.  He was always taking the piddle out of both my names as he couldn't pronounce them properly.  It turned out that Giant Haystacks the Wrestler in the late 70s/early 80s had the same surname, so me being me I let him overhear a conversation where I said that my cousin Giant Haystacks (he wasn't a relation of mine) would be visiting Brum and anyone who upset me would have to answer to him.  As  my surname was very unusual at that time he must of believed it because he was nice to me after that 

Pengy Haystacks! 

I am always gonna think of you as Pengy Haystacks now!

careful now or I might get you in a headlock 

I don't understand how 'Pengy Haystacks' is so difficult to pronounce?

*ducks*

   behave Fluffeh   or I may have to call my 'cousin' to sort you out  

What about helping kids that really want too better themselves, i'm on a very low budget and my daughter starts college in September, they want £44 for a CRB check and £85 for a tracksuit, not mentioning the cost of her getting there everyday and now they have stopped EMA i'm struggling too cover these cost's so she went out and got herself a job at the cinema  maybe the kid's that do try get some appreciation  not all teenagers are bad

My friend got a job in a grosers aged 13, went into Kwik saves at the age of 16 and ended up as an area manager..she left to have her baby and did'nt want to go back full time so she got a job cleaning the cells in the Birkenhead courts..she cleaned shit, blood and sick up and never moaned about it..she saved hard and opened her own buiseness which has been doing well for 4 years now....

So cleaning someone elses crap up does pay....

 xx

Pengy Haystacks is sooooo cute!

Do you have a middle name? If not you need something tough ....like "killer" ...... just you give you a bit of an edge!

Read through the last two pages and ................................i'm really with you on this. Yes we have the clever bankers, the tax evaders, the politicians who fiddled and that is beyond a doubt wrong but ..............never mind the looting (I really couldnt care less about that ) - it's the physical violence, arson , mugging and general putting people in fear for their own safety that upset me more than the thieving TBH. I can sort of see how people connect the two but .........................arson and violence and disrespect for others is abominable to me. I'm surprised more people didn't die in the riots (thank God they didn't). 

she's a credit to you 

  and I guess I could make my entrance to "I predict a riot"