Is your glass half full?

glass Safe travels and kind thoughts.

Half full usually, but today its full as going off to the house tomorrow for ten days and even the weather forecast cant spoil it.

notso and ariadne well done to your DGC , I hate to hear the reporters knocking the results every year belittling the achievements of the students.

My glass is half full, and topped up regularly.

Well done to Notso and Ariadne's grandchildren and indeed to all young people who have studied well, worked hard, and have been duly rewarded.

Hyper people tend to get things done. Stay just the way you are VQ.

Depends on my mood. If I'm depressed it's definately half full or less but if I'm hyper it's full and overflowing with lots of bubbles in it like champagne. I love being hyper although apparently it's not good for me

I don't suppose anyone who's a half-empty person will admit to it on here.

Half full I think for me - whatever time of day.

Spot on, absent. (But I do now take about one third part water with my nightly glass of wine).

If it's either half empty or half full, then the glass is the wrong size!

Well done to all the grandchildren who did so well - you must all be very proud.

Gold stars to everyone who has a 'mum' or any other relative like my mum. often helps. My mum is guaranteed to knock my glass flying too.

What I meant was glass??? I'm still attached to a coffee mug!

I am afraid I am annoying in another way - I am very lively at 6 a.m. It is ironic that when I was working I would have loved a long lie-in and now I am retired I cannot bear to stay in bed after I wake.

"Half empty or half full?"
This early in the day?

Well, perhaps the UK newspapers will stop claiming that the exams have been 'dumbed down' - so disheartening for the staff and students who have worked so hard to get good grades.
Physics is a particularly difficult subject, so well done to you gd, Ariadne.

I think teaching did go through a bad spell for a while, but now it seems back up to speed again and back on track. The enthusiasm seems to be returning. Well done to everyone who worked hard, I hope they all achieve their goals. Although may have to look for a different set of posts!

When I was teaching, a girl came to the staff room door and asked for the teacher 'who smiles a lot'. The teacher who answered the door turned to me and said 'It's for you'.

I have noticed a definite difference in my family members. Some of us seem to have been born happy and remain that way. Some are more sombre from birth. One of my daughters was the proverbial little ray of sunshine and the other was grizzled her way through her childhood. The same differences can be seen in my grandchildren and great gc. I believe the cause lies in the brain chemistry - some of us just have 'happy genes'. My own mother was always cheerful, singing whilst she did the chores, although to me her life seemed one long poverty-stricken grind.

I am afraid my sense of humour sometimes gets me into trouble with people who don't share it, but it has seen me through some very dark periods.
I intend to be like Elsie in the song from 'Cabaret' - 'she was the happiest corpse I've ever seen'.

Such good news, Notso and Ariadne! Well done to them all.

Full! Like you, Notso, because we had a call from DGD1 (the one with the Pre Raphaelite hair) and she too has had great success - all A*, A and a couple of Bs ("Even Physics, Nannie!")

DD1 and DS1's schools (both fairly challenging schools) have also improved their results and hit their targets, so no real sign of "harsh marking" just of good, dedicated teaching.

I'm half-full, definitely. I used to get into trouble for laughing too much at work, and the team that I supervised were a 'laughy' bunch as well - (which is a great thing when you're working with people with certain special needs). My (then) manager sniffily informed me that we laughed so much because we had a certain need ourselves.....

My glass is always half empty! I saves disapointment when it gets knocked over!

Notso that is brilliant, well done to them both. I just heard that for the first year in ages the results are worse, possibly because they have been marked harder, so an even greater achievement.

Not sure anyone is going to admit to being half empty after so many positives!

I'm almost full because my DS2 and DiL2 are here for a couple of days before going off to Cornwall for a week and then coming back here. My family have the ability to make my cup run over.

Thank you, Ella. Do you think some people actually enjoy being miserable? I once heard melancholia described as the pleasure of being miserable.

I think my glass is cautiously half full, and often slopping over the edge

Someone in the family once said to me quite angrily, 'Your problem is you want everyone to be happy!