Today I've been.....

Quite right, nellie!

Hello and welcome, Nosila, hope you enjoy posting now you've made yourself known to us!

Hello Nosila - glad that you've come out into the open, (we thought that there was someone lurking!) and that you've found some of the advice here helpful already. There are some very sensible people here and some silly ones too (ducks under the parapet), we're a friendly bunch of people and I'm sure you'll have lots more fun

Nosila, you are very welcome and I am quite sure any advice any of us give is meant for anybody who can use it.
I had to fight my headmaster to stop his very strict attitude towards my classes, (the remedial stream) , many of whom came from chaotic homes and had to get themselves ready for school and sometimes look after younger children as well. One boy came in looking dreadful and when I asked what had happened he said he and his mother had had to sleep in a bus shelter because the drunken father had thrown them out. I got the canteen to give him a hot breakfast, then took him to the Head to ask if he could sleep in the sick room for a few hours. The Head, who had only taught previously in a Christian Brothers grammar school, looked at him and said 'Where's your tie, Jones?' I got my way about the sick room, though and gave the Head the benefit of my experience with the sort of children he had never encountered in his ivory tower. I met that attitude very often, even being asked 'Why do you do remedial work, can't you get a better job?'
Yes, I agree, there are still plenty of overbearing teachers around.

Hello Nosila - welcome! Where I live, people called Agnes are often called Senga....name is back to front ! I hope I've not blown your cover!

Hello nosila lovely to hear from you,glad you decided to join in,think I might have guessed your interesting name ...we already have an anagram

B - I just don't get the tights vs. leggings thing. Strewth! With you all the way on that one.

nosiliawellcome to the forums

nellie! My real name is not Margana !

little nellie and as we all know there are 50 shades of grey..so how are you supposed to know the right one!

Welcome Nosila hope you enjoy the forums

NosilaWelcome to the best forum for Grans

Or Nagaram or ragaman .....that sounds like a RnB singer...

But a male one....

No its nag

Welcome Nosila glad you have taken the plunge to join us .

bags I am sure you will soon sort him out.

yoga you can get up now.

Hi Nosila, nice to meet you. I'm quite new too but not sensible enough to watch quietly for a bit. Straight in with two large feet!

With you, Bags. I agree with having a school uniform, but tights instead of leggings? Do they have to wear navy knickers too?

nfk has the g&t hit the spot yet, you certainly needed it after the day you have had.

I had a maths teacher who used to bang the desk in time with the words, "You'll never pass your O level if you don't cover your log tables". I never did put a brown paper cover over the log tables book but I did pass O level maths.

Yes thanks, Glass. It did take a second though and DH's comfort food of liver and bacon casserole with dumplings helped too. Am now happily replete!

Liver and bacon casserole - delicious. And you cetainly deserved it.

Today I had been invited to spend the day with my DiL and the GC and her parents in their canal boat. I joined them on the Macclesfield Canal near Congleton. A peaceful trip on a beautiful stretch of canal and a lovely flight of locks. Until we encountered a huge floating patch of weed, reversed to try another route past it, and ran into another patch but also managed to get rope tangled round the prop. On examination, which involved my DiL lying flat on her stomach with her arms down a hatch, they found that there was a metal rod spiralled round the prop shaft. So a boat mechanic was sent for. Three hours later, the mechanic gave me a lift back to the car and the boat went on its merry way, back down the flight of locks. What a day! Not quite what I expected!

Annobel

Annobel I love the Macclesfield Canal and that part of Cheshire. I'm afraid getting things caught on the prop is just one of life's hazards on a narrowboat though. Our best one was a supermarket trolley on the Huddersfield Narrow last year.
I do admire your DiL - I'm afraid leave that sort of stuff to DH

Oh dear Annobel. The best laid plans etc. sounds like quite an adventure. G & T?

Thanks for the kind words of welcome. I had tried various 'clever' nicknames only to find they were all taken! Ho hum.

Did anybody else try turning their name backwards or was I just a weird kid?
I have had some nice times on narrow boats, Annobel - one man friend took me to the Llangollen stretch. I think we had to cross a very high aquaduct. Very scenic.