natalie hoad

vertically challenged redhead, teaches (generally grateful) teenagers, new mother to Harry

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Family food shopping is a miserable, hernia-inducing experience and would be better if things stayed where they are. Moving them does not make me buy more. It makes me want to shop online. I spend way less that way.

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Thoughts 💭 in @Tesco
1. Why aren’t the herbs and spices in alphabetical order?
2. Why isn’t all the salad stuff together?
3. Why aren’t all the vegetables together?
4. If you can have special quiet sessions can you also have special noisy, musical sessions?

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@SkyHelpTeam Returned sky hub weeks ago. No longer have post office receipt. Now being asked for £50. Can’t communicate as no longer have account. Friends have suggested this is common. Don’t want debit collections like others in same situation

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@RogersHistory touch typing...a bit retro, I know...but how useful

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@RealistTeach @mbaenglish1 but they don't memorise the whole of Macbeth...just key quotations. I feel this is the same.

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@RogersHistory 5-7 hrs depending on how much work I have on...

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@meril_c @cookingfitness @DrAnnLopez We are regularly reminded by SLT not to let students out of class for the toilet or to get water, unless they have a medical pass. Some students tell me they don’t have time to go at break or lunch but mostly they mean that they are prioritising playing football.

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@robotmaths @MicheleLee1664 @TitPostLeft Fair enough on both points...just basically saying the OP was in the UK

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@TitPostLeft This may have come from the school but the message is coming directly from the government. All school attendance is being very closely monitored and we are all being asked to follow up on any absences.
Don't blame the school - they are being beaten with the absence stick.

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@jowhiley From a local cat lost/found group

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@RogersHistory I enjoy the research and planning of teaching. It is my 'hobby' to an extent.

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@RogersHistory Yes, even though the anxiety 'back-to-school' dreams have already started!
I enjoy going to work and rarely have a day when I don't feel I have had at least some really positive teaching experiences.
My work-life balance has improved after 20+ years.

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@EmmaCookeBooks When I was a student teacher, a student said “you wore that the last time you taught us”. I replied “so did you” but thought about my wardrobe more after that.

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@TomMaloneJr @chilledoutlou Curious, if she was 20 (possibly days, weeks, months later) and no longer a 'teenager', would you feel differently?

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@pennymiller2013 @UpdatesLilyRose My son called me by my first name when he was younger. His brother and sister (step children) called me by my first name so it made sense to him. I was so pleased when he finally started calling me mum all the time!

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@schuh Excellent customer service at Brighton store today from two young women (approx 5pm). Makes all the difference. Please pass on my regards.

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@matthaig1 Finished it in the sunshine yesterday (thank you half term). Can’t wait til termly staff book club when we can share our love of reading and discuss The Midnight Library. Fell asleep last night imagining my other lives.

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@jennyeclair Peacocks

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@RevRichardColes Mine shrank. I’d only washed one as son had sprayed silly string on it! Now one shorter than the other. Need to shrink the other one too!