Things that ur happy about

[bunique]

That's great Grumpy, what fantastic feedback!

[feral chile]

Had an e-mail from one of my learners describing the initial teaching course she just finished with me as 'life changing'. She's gone from being an agoraphobic suffering from panic attacks to a confident young woman who's now got an interview for a place to do a PGCE.

I can't claim all the credit as the group as a whole have been great and have supported each other enormously. But I like to think that I might have played some small part.

That's fantastic.

[grumpyhack]

I kick of my teacher training courses by going round the room asking everyone what subject areas they hope to teach. There's nearly always someone who says Confidence Building. To which I reply: "I hate confidence building courses."

I then go on to explain that I think all courses should be confidence building and, somehow, labelling courses specifically as Confidence Building might appear to excuse tutors of other courses from doing that in whatever they teach.

With all learning in any subject my main aim is that the participants should go away feeling a bit better about themselves at the end. Getting a qualification is a bonus.

[LondonTom]

4 Day work week, followed by a 4 day weekend. I'm not going anywhere particularly exotic, just the Harry Potter studio tour (Watford ) on Friday and then a day off on Monday...but it does make Monday slightly more bearable knowing I'm only here for 4 days!

Edited January 27, 2014 by LondonTom

[grumpyhack]

Had an e-mail from one of my learners describing the initial teaching course she just finished with me as 'life changing'. She's gone from being an agoraphobic suffering from panic attacks to a confident young woman who's now got an interview for a place to do a PGCE.

I can't claim all the credit as the group as a whole have been great and have supported each other enormously. But I like to think that I might have played some small part.

It gets even better. She had her Uni interview today and has been offered a PGCE place. Am I chuffed or what!

[grumpyhack]

I'm happy that despite approaching 29 people tell me they thought I was 22. Lets hope I can shave off 7 years permanently for the rest of my life!

You wait till you get near to retirement age and you'll want to add on a few years to quit work early. Mind you as they keep pushing the retirement age on a bit, by the time you're 65 you'll probably find they won't give you a pension till you're 100.

[feral chile]

This is the happy thread, so I won't share my theory about the future of the state pension.

[grumpyhack]

This is the happy thread, so I won't share my theory about the future of the state pension.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7RIgs3eygo

[BlackHole2006]

The fact that I'll be 21 years old in an hours time.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

The fact that I'll be 21 years old in an hours time.

Happy 21st.

[TheGayTent]

Exchanging and getting a completion date agreed on my new gaff.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Just came back from a 2 week holiday which went swimmingly well. It was a very rewarding holiday in terms of many differing good experiences. It's made me feel alive again, so I'm feeling good. No doubt this perspective will be battered out of me on my return to work on Monday - ever the optimist!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

The safe arrival of my beautiful daughter Sophie

Congratulations.

[bunique]

Congrats Barry!

[feral chile]

The safe arrival of my beautiful daughter Sophie

Congratulations, best wishes to you and your loved ones

[grumpyhack]

Nice one Barry. A lovely little minnow.

I'm delighted with my new hearing aids but suddenly everything is so loud. Sound where have you been hiding? To her relief I can now even listen to the TV at the same volume as Mrs GH.

But sitting here the clatter of my keyboard and noise from the computer fan is deafening. So I reckon it will be 'ears out' when on the computer,

Oh and 27-6. Doing better lads.

Edited February 22, 2014 by grumpyhack

[kaosmark2]

Congrats Barry

[Spindles]

[LondonTom]

The safe arrival of my beautiful daughter Sophie

\\o// congrats!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Just feeling happy today. That'll do me.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Further to my son in law to be having written off my car, I have just bought a new van instead. To say I'm happy with it is an understatement. It looks a bit like a pimp mobile. I should know better at my age but I simply don't!

[eFestivals]

Sometimes, death makes me extremely happy.

it's just as well I'm not talking about any sort of sentient death.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Sometimes, death makes me extremely happy.

it's just as well I'm not talking about any sort of sentient death.

I sometimes look in the mirror whilst shaving and wonder what my own skull would look like after my death and the decay of my flesh. I always conclude that it will look like any other skull.

[grumpyhack]

Finished a five session course today for tenants of a housing association on how to put a newsletter together. Got them to go from zero to putting together a four page newsletter (writing, design, layout, IT the lot) in 12 hours. And it was quite a reasonable looking newsletter.

It was a bit like herding cats. A woman of 92 who was pretty well stone deaf and who kept harking back to the 'old days', two guys for whom English was still very much a second language, a closet revolutionary with his own agenda, two in wheelchairs and the chair of the housing association allotment group.

Getting them all to sing from the same hymn sheet, at the same time and to the same tune was exhausting.

Still it's done.

As I told them, the first newsletter is easy. Number two will always be harder when they will have to do their own cat herding.

[kaosmark2]

I sometimes look in the mirror whilst shaving and wonder what my own skull would look like after my death and the decay of my flesh. I always conclude that it will look like any other skull.

I really want a human skull, but in that I'd want it to be the skull of a person who was happy I had it.