tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post115770165818940789..comments2023-10-26T15:02:50.331+01:00Comments on Life Is All Cobblers: Is there any week quite as stressfulJ.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429727115197726031noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157904280375064392006-09-10T17:04:00.000+01:002006-09-10T17:04:00.000+01:00Reidski, surely your boy is far too adorable to ev...Reidski, surely your boy is far too adorable to ever wind you up???<BR/><BR/>Simon, it is simply astonishing how rapidly they can mislay their belongings.<BR/><BR/>Moo, yes - I think it must be in the terms and conditios you accept when you become a mother - you WILL bellow at your kids the night before they go back to school - and you WILL get yelled at back! <BR/><BR/>Anxious, I kind of think she just <I>might</I> see it just a little differnetly!<BR/><BR/>Yorkshire Pudding, see earlier comment - but he is an Oxford man through and through.<BR/><BR/>Bond bloke, I am made of tough stuff and can handle anything MK can throw at me.<BR/><BR/>SP, we should form a support group for parents who need to buy their kids school bags!<BR/><BR/>Laura - only 8? Oh dear!!!!!<BR/><BR/>Kate, it drives me crazy that in the one week when everyone needs to buy school clothing, the shops run out of every size you need. It happens every year and you owuld have thought at least one retailer woould have got supply and demnad sorted out by now???J.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429727115197726031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157794324847539782006-09-09T10:32:00.000+01:002006-09-09T10:32:00.000+01:00Apologies for lack of proper replies at this momen...Apologies for lack of proper replies at this moment but I am about to be kicked off the laptop and the unfinished project is the reason given for the urgency.<BR/><BR/>Did want to say Hi to you Kate and thanks for commenting. <BR/><BR/>And also that Yorkshire Pudding should write his side of this story on his blog where more people will see it - it is very funny!J.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429727115197726031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157750481712528132006-09-08T22:21:00.000+01:002006-09-08T22:21:00.000+01:00I sympathise :-( That sounds just like my experie...I sympathise :-( That sounds just like my experience in the days leading up to school re-opening. I took me the best part of two hours to find school shirts that would fit a boy over the age of 8yo - do these people not realise the school leaving age is 16/18! My 16yo still doesn't have a bag he likes, and is using his brothers, said brother goes back to college on Tuesday and wishes to use his bag, so guess what I will be doing tomorrow.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07027028952998373863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157740639070054002006-09-08T19:37:00.000+01:002006-09-08T19:37:00.000+01:00I absolutely feel for you. I had only one 15 year ...I absolutely feel for you. I had only one 15 year old son to buy shoes for, some art supplies and a new school bag. We got home two and a half hours later and we didm't even find a bag.Shooting Parrotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503757845024102476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157728461058052242006-09-08T16:14:00.000+01:002006-09-08T16:14:00.000+01:00Never mind the horrendous thought of taking the ki...Never mind the horrendous thought of taking the kids shopping! I am impressed that you acytually managed to return from Milton Keynes (note to self wash out mouth with soap and water) people have gone there and have never been seen again...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157725576238203372006-09-08T15:26:00.000+01:002006-09-08T15:26:00.000+01:00P.S. You never mentioned that Reidski was an oarsm...P.S. You never mentioned that Reidski was an oarsman. Light or dark blue?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157725499014674102006-09-08T15:24:00.000+01:002006-09-08T15:24:00.000+01:00Thanks for this glimpse into the pre-school year b...Thanks for this glimpse into the pre-school year behaviours of a typical English family. That's the schoolkids! What about the poor, undervalued, heroic, selfless and handsome/beautiful teachers... Ten pints of Tetleys at the boozer, draft out a suicide note, leave suit at dry cleaners, check the lottery numbers with more fervent desire than any other worker could possibly muster, shake head in disbelief.... "I don't want to be there!" kick the DfES doorstop folder you half meant to read... Oh woe is me - it's a dog's life in the English teaching profession!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157719171527353162006-09-08T13:39:00.000+01:002006-09-08T13:39:00.000+01:00I honestly can't remember it being a problem from ...I honestly can't remember it being a problem from my point of view when I was at school. My mother may have seen things differently, however...Anxioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977461155480004833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157713950789813132006-09-08T12:12:00.000+01:002006-09-08T12:12:00.000+01:00I remember those days well, my mum screaming at me...I remember those days well, my mum screaming at me the night before to get my bag ready and me screaming at her that I'll do it in the morning!! <BR/><BR/>I used to love going shopping for new school equip, mind you most of it was either lost or stolen in the first week back!!Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05034171453165088359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004177.post-1157704544989133972006-09-08T09:35:00.000+01:002006-09-08T09:35:00.000+01:00AAAAh, that night before the first day back - it r...AAAAh, that night before the first day back - it resulted in my boy on msn at 11pm and point-blank refusing to get off. No, of course we didn't start rowing ...Reidskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17099190023784077789noreply@blogger.com