What made you smile today? Part III
Oct 30th 2020, 4:02 pm
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Someone in the UK with whom I'm working on my current job, the CEO of the local branch of a charity, whose subject line in his emails to me is always "Aye up duck!"
Made me smile too.
Oct 31st 2020, 8:50 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
A tale from my neighbour.
She arrived at the cemetery on this most important of weekends to do her weekly tidy-up and lay flowers on her parents' graves. A sister she has broken off relations with was already there and at work, so, not wanting to back down, she set herself at the opposite end of the same grave and did her stuff, the pair each pretending the other wasn't there. She was seething, of course. Got the full story and pics when she got back home.
She arrived at the cemetery on this most important of weekends to do her weekly tidy-up and lay flowers on her parents' graves. A sister she has broken off relations with was already there and at work, so, not wanting to back down, she set herself at the opposite end of the same grave and did her stuff, the pair each pretending the other wasn't there. She was seething, of course. Got the full story and pics when she got back home.
Nov 2nd 2020, 9:26 pm
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Nov 3rd 2020, 7:46 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by chawkins99
Nov 6th 2020, 3:10 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Parent-teacher conferences for my daughter tonight. So nice to hear the teachers say how they love having her in their class, and how well she's doing. I'm not exactly unbiased of course but she's a bit brilliant if you ask me 
Nov 6th 2020, 3:50 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Parent-teacher conferences for my daughter tonight. So nice to hear the teachers say how they love having her in their class, and how well she's doing. I'm not exactly unbiased of course but she's a bit brilliant if you ask me
Nov 6th 2020, 3:54 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by RICH
Nobody has ever seen anything like it. Probably the best daughter, ever, by far. 😜
Nov 6th 2020, 4:07 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
We went away for a few days down south, and popped into an antiques shop that just happened to be owned by my kids' old Japanese teacher. She told us what a pleasure our kids were to teach, and that if all kids were like that she'd never have left teaching. It also makes me smile to see sultan back 👍👍
Nov 6th 2020, 5:08 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by stevenglish1
We went away for a few days down south, and popped into an antiques shop that just happened to be owned by my kids' old Japanese teacher. She told us what a pleasure our kids were to teach, and that if all kids were like that she'd never have left teaching.
Originally Posted by stevenglish1
It also makes me smile to see sultan back 👍👍
Nov 6th 2020, 10:18 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by stevenglish1
We went away for a few days down south, and popped into an antiques shop that just happened to be owned by my kids' old Japanese teacher. She told us what a pleasure our kids were to teach, and that if all kids were like that she'd never have left teaching. It also makes me smile to see sultan back 👍👍
He adopted an elderly cat so that was a bonus. Eldest daughter was pissed that he didn't ask after her.
Nov 6th 2020, 11:59 am
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Parent-teacher conferences for my daughter tonight. So nice to hear the teachers say how they love having her in their class, and how well she's doing. I'm not exactly unbiased of course but she's a bit brilliant if you ask me
I always knew what my son's teachers were going to say before they said it: "Great kid, a pleasure to have in the class, but he never stops talking!"
Wonder where he got that from
Nov 6th 2020, 12:18 pm
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Parent-teacher conferences for my daughter tonight. So nice to hear the teachers say how they love having her in their class, and how well she's doing. I'm not exactly unbiased of course but she's a bit brilliant if you ask me
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
A credit to her parents, etc.
I always knew what my son's teachers were going to say before they said it: "Great kid, a pleasure to have in the class, but he never stops talking!"
Wonder where he got that from
I always knew what my son's teachers were going to say before they said it: "Great kid, a pleasure to have in the class, but he never stops talking!"
Wonder where he got that from
Comment from the year five teacher of my second son, who I swear was born a freewheeling hippy - "He can be very disruptive in class, often interrupting me with comments. Trouble is, his comments are so funny that everyone laughs, even me". Little shit
Nov 6th 2020, 12:46 pm
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Re: What made you smile today? Part III
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
He can't get it from you Lion, I've known you for years and have never heard you talk, not even once.
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
Comment from the year five teacher of my second son, who I swear was born a freewheeling hippy - "He can be very disruptive in class, often interrupting me with comments. Trouble is, his comments are so funny that everyone laughs, even me". Little shit
Here's to laid back kids. Mine was, and remains, like that.
Anyway, you wouldn't want students who didn't make comments, would you.
