Gaz

Folk getting their knickers in a twist over losing to a much better side from a league above.

I'm absolutely paranoid about that dry socket. This morning when I woke up there was a bit of congealed blood around the hole which came loose and I'm paranoid that that was the clot that has been dislodged.

I'll be honest boys, I'm in absolute agony here.

I got a wisdom tooth pulled yesterday. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezo

Hugo Boche

I received my diagnosis of autism and ADHD a couple of weeks back. It's been pretty liberating, if I'm being honest.

I really enjoyed Firewatch, even if the ending was a bit poor. I'm currently playing through The Long Dark, which is a survival game set in the Canadian wildnerness. You have to constantly look for resources to keep warm, rested, satiated and hydrated. I think it started off as an online survival game but then the devs released a story in different episodes. There are currently four episodes and another one to be released. I'm on episode four and really enjoying it.

Yup, my wife and I have two disabled kids which means my wife is unable to work due to carer responsibilities and a large part of my 'disposable' income goes on medical / therapeutic supplies for them. I am at the top end of the salary scale but one unexpected bill could easily tip us into unmanageable debt.

Not enough folk saying The Chuckle Brothers / Sheerin / Rennie deserve more time for that

(That's without getting into the whole other issue about the sheer volume of expected, unpaid overtime that teachers are expected to do - which often falls disproportionately onto younger / newer teachers who perhaps lack the confidence and experience to say "no")

It's possible to believe that: a) Teachers are reasonably well paid for the hours they are contracted to work; and b) The wages of teachers have been impacted by rising costs / inflation and thus they are deserving of a payrise that they are willing to fight for. It's not one or the other.

That is absolutely nuts

The guy from Goodfellas?

Q the "vocation" discussion ! Thankfully the idea of teaching as a vocation seems to be dying out.

No. At least, I'm not. It's not a zero-sum game, though. I think we have it tight. It doesn't mean that I think other professions don't have it tight. You can acknowledge that your job is difficult while saying that other jobs also have it difficult. It's not mutually exclusive.