Winnersaint

Surprised no muppets have been on here yet to moan about the long hard struggle ahead yet!

Couldn't agree more. Create division to rule and then spend as much time reinforcing those divisions to utterly polarise societal opinion . Nothing new in it. Whereas once a lot of the views of idiots were simply confined to idiots own brains social media has allowed those idiots views on all sides to gain mainstream traction so that people are so entrenched they are unable to see an alternative view without resorting to emotional insults or threats of violence. Take your pick from. "Woke, Remoaner, Fascist, Lefty, Brexshitter etc; and could someone please tell me how someone who does not agree with Brexit is a 'traitor' or 'enemy of the people' is that just social media hyperbole? You know the sort of thing you can safely say on a keyboard but wouldnt say to someone face to face.

There are more than a few on here that subscribe to that. You'd be amazed how many times in the last 40 years I've been told what an how easy job us teacher's have, then to be told in the next sentence that they couldn't keep their hands off the 'rude little shits!' Dead easy isn't it? Then to be lambasted for having all that paid holiday. I think I'll have a go for those who are hard of thinking or ignorant of how teachers pay is calculated. Teachers are contracted to work 190 days a year plus 5 INSET days. The maximum directed time you can be expected to work with those 195 days is 1265 hours.Teachers generally will work in excess of this 'directed time' so pay is based on that maximum hourly calculation. That total salary based on national pay scales (with minor modifications for London and the adjacent counties) is then divided in to twelve roughly equal payments rather than just term time payments. In real terms teachers are not paid for the six weeks of the summer but are paid during that six weeks for work they've already done.

They certainly do if nothing else to compensate for the gaslighting and general anti-teacher rhetoric that pervades this country. Can't think of too many places in the world where teachers are held in such low esteem.

Jim Davidson mainly because he's a fascist twat!

Retired teacher here waiting for the call. Not holding my breath. In truth I’m offering my services to a local school I have a long term association with.

Was planning on 50K ride yesterday but never materialised. Went in garage and did part of 2014 TdF stage 1 on Rouvy up and over Kidstones but baled after 23. The fan wasn't strong enough. Riding atm is a bit hit and miss. The weeks like last week when my wife has her chemo are a bit awkward to get out and the heat this week hasn't helped either.

Promised many attributes possessed by MS but actually demonstrated very few. In short a ‘poor man’s Morgan Schneiderlin. Look how he’s got on since leaving us?

Resident in Burghfield/Sulhamstead from press reports. Short drive down to A4 from there.

American recipes. Been doing a lot of cooking since wife’s illness. Limited culinary skills if I’m honest. Often sends me stuff on Pinterest. Everything measured in cups and tablespoons. What about grams? Don’t get me started on ‘heavy cream’ which seems to be regularly included in healthy eating recipes. Too much flour in sauces and why tf call coriander cilantro? Give me BBC Good Food any day. Oh and Jamie Oliver your recipes are shyte too.

Great stuff VFTT. Welcome back to the road.

Only a problem if you get the 'old chap' caught in them!

That’s pretty impressive. Thought my garage was crowded with three road bikes one on a smart trainer which takes up a fair bit of room and the girly share bike my wife and daughter don’t use even though it was fettled last weekend.

My first game too.

RIP as others have said a football legend.So few of the boys of 66 left.

I'm done with having a laugh and a joke on this thread. Some of you will be aware from another thread which didn't make it across to the new site that I have more important things to deal with. To those of you who offered the very best of wishes to my wife, even those I have sparred with on here. A big thank you. Looking forward only to good news so wasting positivity on here isn't useful.

These days it seems the three word strapline is all people can cope with.

Indeed. It seems that only the 'righties' are allowed to make political capital out of anything, with us 'lefties' having no rights to an opinion on this without being shouted down. Suck it up! You lost! That's all we get from GM. WT et al.

I've changed my mind to 'I dont give a toss'. Road to Damascus moment was when I was able to apply for an Irish Passport. That was important as I have to be an EU citizen to buy property on the Pelion in Greece which may or may not be feasible in the future but is a medium term plan. It is designated as part of the EU border.

If anyone does want to home school I know an excellent GCSE and A Level Geography tutor who has produced superb results over the last couple of years. Due to social distancing he can only do online tutoring at present.

This was made very clear to us at my wife's outpatients appointment last week.

My wife was in our local hospital. Had emergency surgery for bowel cancer 4 weeks ago today. No PPE in use on ward for about three days following recovery and then PPE visibly in use thereafter. She left the ward once for x-ray to check her IV lines, whereupon she was given a surgical mask. At follow up appointment in outpatients last Tuesday both of us were given masks, and I had to have temperature taken which was a tad unexpected. Not sure if we'll get masks at oncologist appointment next week, but we maybe building up quite a collection. Seems to be plenty to go around although I believe the RBH is actually designated as a step-down centre for Covid-19.

Are you Katie Hopkins you xenophobic p r i c k?

Your posts don't often make me laugh as you come across as a right pompous know it all t w a t most of the time even though a lot what you say I am in agreement with, but in this case, this did cause me to chuckle.

Nor watching Saints home games.