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The Scary School Gate

Posted in School, Vicar's wife job description, tagged , , , , on 17 August, 2009| 1 Comment »

I'm definitely not this glamorous at the school gate

I'm definitely not this glamorous at the school gate

I’d like to tell you about the first time I talked to my friend Diamond. We’d just moved into the Vicarage and the kids had started at the new school. I was on a new school gate.

The old one was where I met my friends, chatted and hung about till I was thrown out by teachers wanting to get on with the lessons. Here I just had to hang onto the kids for comfort.

The new school gate was the one where I didn’t know anyone, but some of them already knew me. Diamond came up to me on one of those first days and said:

You’re the Vicar’s Wife, aren’t you?

We went to see some strippers last night. But I was so drunk I fell asleep and missed it.

I wasn’t sure what she was expecting me to say, but I commented

Sounds like a bit of an expensive way to take a nap.

And then she wandered back to her ‘gang’.

She must have liked my response, cos now she’s my friend. But, boy, was that a scary way to begin.

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Our School is the Best

Posted in School, tagged , , on 2 February, 2009| 1 Comment »

snowflakeOur school is the best. It’s snowing heavily here at the moment. But our school is open.

The wussy schools down the road are shut, but somehow our teachers made it in. Whether they get home again is another matter. The snow’s at three inches and deepening.

I’m glad I’ve got wellies.

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A sad end to term (and for some, to primary school)

Posted in Politics, School, tagged , , on 17 July, 2008| Leave a Comment »

We’ve been hit by the public sector strike here in deepest Wolverhampton. Our bins weren’t collected yesterday and, more disruptively, school is closed because the kitchen staff and caretaker are members of Unison.

Do you know why the strike was on Wednesday and Thursday? Apparently they couldn’t hold it on Thursday and Friday because if school staff don’t work on the last day of term they’re not paid for the holidays. If they’d been striking at the end of the week term could have finished properly on Wednesday.

As it is, we are off today and yesterday but back tomorrow. And because of all that goes on at the end of term (sports days, plays, trips out) the end-of-term service where all the Year Six leavers are farewelled has had to be postponed to Friday afternoon. Sadly for the Year Sixes, and the two teachers who are retiring, many children won’t return to school for the last day of term. A 2pm finish to the day means that parents are reluctant to disrupt holiday mode simply for a day of packing up. So the service will be much less of a send-off than it normally is.

I wonder if the Unison and Unite bosses took into consideration this important stage of children’s school careers when they made their plans? The move from primary to secondary school is a significant one. I can’t believe that they wanted to cause this upset to children by the timing of their strike. But they did think about the paypackets of their workers. Money, not memories, has driven them.

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Modern reports

Posted in Family, School, tagged , on 4 July, 2008| Leave a Comment »

My kids had their school reports today.

One of the comments in the Queen’s one was

The Queen has good mouse control.

My rodent capabilities were never commented on when I was at school….

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You know it must be nearly the end of term when…

Posted in Family, tagged , on 24 June, 2008| Leave a Comment »

1. The children are very grumpy and argue with each other even more than usual.

2. The Joker screams while the Queen tries to boss him around.

3. The Engineer cries all the way home when he has to walk rather than go in the buggy.

4. In the next two days, you have to prepare a Pathfinder meeting (on work and idleness), write a monthly prayer diary and bake multiple trays of flapjack for the school summer fair.

5. You’d rather spend your time blogging about the things you have to do than actually getting round to doing them.

6. You find that you have put the lettuce in the freezer instead of the fridge.

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