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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Hope you get enough done so you can enjoy your holiday Jud, safe travels Patti. Hope you get some sleep tonight Alicia, at least you made some headway with the writing. Good luck with the washing machine MT

[Patti (baconater)]

good morning! all checked in and waiting for our flight to Yangon. stupid early but we were kindly given free access to the airline lounge. no idea why. must be our kind faces. our new principal is collecting us from the airport. will be nice to finally meet him after so many email conversations!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Safe flight Patti and Dave.

[Alicia]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Hope you get enough done so you can enjoy your holiday Jud, safe travels Patti. Hope you get some sleep tonight Alicia, at least you made some headway with the writing. Good luck with the washing m..."

Thanks, Desley. No writing progress, but got a whole chapter serialized up on Patreon so I don't have to worry about that for a while. Haven't been able to get Scrivener back to open the old file, but can create new ones. I'll get there.

Another packing marathon - the boxes are piling up, the donations leaving the house, and we can see the end of it now. Mover is coming to estimate tomorrow.

We are wondering how we got so many things, but the kids needed them - and didn't take them when they left because they were needed here when the kids came home. Someone will be able to use them.

[Alicia]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "good morning! all checked in and waiting for our flight to Yangon. stupid early but we were kindly given free access to the airline lounge. no idea why. must be our kind faces. our new principal is..."

It must be exciting each new place.

[Lindsay]

Morning all,

Safe flight Patti!

[Patti (baconater)]

been in our room for a couple hours. nice enough . nothing fancy but it's free so hey. it's incredibly humid here. soaked with sweat after five minutes on the balcony

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, another disturbed night sleep. Not much on today and quite cool.

Glad you have arrived safely Patti. Do the kids not want any of their stuff back Alicia?

[Jim]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "good morning! all checked in and waiting for our flight to Yangon. stupid early but we were kindly given free access to the airline lounge. no idea why. must be our kind faces. our new principal is..."

Fortunately wiki has 'formally known as' all over the place so I know where you're going :-)

[Kath]

Morning, each! Hot again. Opened a kitchen window to let a wasp out and another tried to get in!
Writing this morning, ironing this afternoon.

[Benjamin]

Morning, all. Halfway through the week.

Glad you arrived safely, Patti.

[Will]

Alicia wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Hope you get enough done so you can enjoy your holiday Jud, safe travels Patti. Hope you get some sleep tonight Alicia, at least you made some headway with the writing..."

Doing some more sorting last night, I realised just how much stuff youngest has left here. Now I'm not sure what to do with it all.

[Jim]

Benjamin wrote: "Morning, all. Halfway through the week.

Glad you arrived safely, Patti."

yep, the world has returned to normal with Patti in a different time zone :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

funny you say that Jim. I was just thinking to myself that I have no idea what time it is there. it's just gone 8pm here.
had a lovely dinner. couple of stir fry, rice and six glasses of beer. about £7. bought 5 litres of water earlier for 50p. 200 fags are less than £5. I'm liking it here so far!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Wow!

[Elizabeth]

Evening all.

Evening sun after a damp day. Morrisons are fast becoming our local go-to supermarket. Made a haul of their £4 paperbacks - very unusual for us - and the Peter Yealands Sauvignon Blanc/Pinot Gris is currently in their 'wine clearance'. Win/win!

Glad you're enjoying yourselves, Patti - are you 4.5 hours in front or are you still in our yesterday?

Congrats, Kelly. Let us know when you become the Guv of the Bank of England ; )

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

My niece just cleared her loft of her offsprings’ leavings last week too. One of them took all her stuff straight to car boot sale after leaving it for years at her mums, Will.
Little grandson is getting a bit cheeky, he told me he didn’t want back toes. (Black toast). I hadn’t a clue, I asked if his feet hurt and he gave me a withering look. He then said clearly, I want perfect toast like mummy makes. Oooooh. That told me. Then asked if we were going to my house to watch the little tele. Had to laugh.

[Kelly]

Wow - that's cheap, Patti. Brilliant.

Ha ha, Elizabeth - ooh, wine and books - perfect shopping haul.

Lynne, blimey - that boy knows what he wants - good on him!

[Patti (baconater)]

Good morning. 5am here. I'm in front of you lot.
I'm on the balcony having a coffee. Dave is still snoring.
I really dislike this app but we could only connect two devices to the WiFi here and I chose my phone.
Meeting one of the other new teachers at breakfast and we're gonna sort out exploring Yangon today.

[Alicia]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Do the kids not want any of their stuff back Alicia?"

They took the few good things years ago. They don't want much of ours, especially when they'd have to transport it a long way. We bought them serviceable when they were kids. But not great - their feet and clothing size changed so frequently!

Now that they're stable, and don't have kids, they treat themselves to what they want (as I did when I could). They're careful spenders, but are no longer dealing with growing.

[Alicia]

Will wrote: "just how much stuff youngest has left here..."

I think the youngest leaves more. Of course, she had the Beanie Babies. And the dance costumes.

They don't have to clear out space for a younger sibling. In our house, the oldest sibling still at home got the huge attic bedroom and private bath.

[Alicia]

Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "My niece ...took all her stuff straight to car boot sale after leaving it for years at her mums..."

That is cheeky! I bet her mum wasn't pleased - she could have had all that space for years.

Your grandson will learn to dissimulate soon enough. Meanwhile, 'out of the mouths of babes...'

[Alicia]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Good morning. 5am here. I'm in front of you lot.
I'm on the balcony having a coffee. Dave is still snoring.
I really dislike this app but we could only connect two devices to the WiFi here and I c..."

Are you teaching or will you substitute again?

[Benjamin]

Morning everyone. I was woken today by the puppy (well, young dog by now) loudly chewing a food wrapping that one of the cats must have stolen from the bin.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, woke up early to find its very cool here. Hoping for a quIet day, dentist after work.

Enjoy your exploring Patti. Good luck with the stuff Alicia and Will! That's really funny Lynne

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

After years of bin wars with our dogs my kitchen now has a bin unit that slides out and no dog or small child can access that. In fact husband still has a job to put things in it. It seems like the loo brush it must be exclusively mine 😁
Nice day here, park or paddling pool for me.

[Kath]

Morning! Writing this morning and flower arrranging this afternoon. I shall make time in the morning to pop round to the farm to get some of their luscious sausages, pork steaks and lamb burgers. Drooling now and I've just had my breakfast!

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

I made sausages yesterday, wished I hadn’t. The washing up was horrendous. Still, he likes them and I need all thé brownie points I can get this week. I really am suffering keeping the peace between the old block and the chip.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'll be teaching EAL. My first love.

A group of six of us went for a nice long walk this morning. About six miles down to Inya Lake. Found a nice restaurant for our lunch.
A few of us are going to dinner in a bit.
First day of induction tomorrow. Looking at the schedule, we'll be spending most of the enjoying refreshments. :)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I hadn’t been able to get through to the podiatrist the other day, but might be a good thing, I can half bend my toes, most movement I’ve had in nearly 6 months! Even better as I reduced my anti-inflams this week. Just need my other foot to improve, which it was doing before the vet visit. However carrying my amazon pantry to the car was painful. Very sinusy today though.

Sorry you are still having family issues Lynne.

[Alicia]

Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "After years of bin wars with our dogs my kitchen now has a bin unit that slides out and no dog or small child can access that. In fact husband still has a job to put things in it. It seems like the..."

Funny how the concept of cleaning toilets escapes some people.

[Alicia]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I hadn’t been able to get through to the podiatrist the other day, but might be a good thing, I can half bend my toes, most movement I’ve had in nearly 6 months! Even better as I reduced my anti-in..."

Sorry you keep having to fight this, Desley. Keep playing with your toes - maybe they'll play back. I fight (exercise) mine every day - and can still sort of work them.

[Alicia]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'll be teaching EAL. My first love.

A group of six of us went for a nice long walk this morning. About six miles down to Inya Lake. Found a nice restaurant for our lunch.
A few of us are going to..."

EAL - is that something like English as a second language? Or English and American Literature?

Glad you get to teach what you love.

[Patti (baconater)]

English as an additional language.

Good morning!

Met a couple more teachers yesterday. We seem to have as many male teachers as we do female, which is great. The IT teacher is also called Dave. Can never have too many, I always say.

[Alicia]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "English as an additional language..."

What age groups?

[Benjamin]

Morning, everyone.

Hope your foot feels better soon, Desley.

[Lindsay]

Morning all,

Hope you feel better soon Desley.

So glad it is Friday, can't wait to finish today and just relax!

[M.T.]

Oh no Desley, hope the foot recovers soon.

patti, glad you are enjoying it so far.

We have arrived in drought stricken France and it’s rained. We are heading south to Spain, hopefully via the areas of Southern France that are not experiencing biblical floods right now.

Last time we did this it was 2015 and we brought rain and flooding to Drought stricken Italy. It’s a thankless task, bringing the world rain. Still, we have managed to visit Ireland in July without it raining so swings and roundabouts I guess.

Cheers

MTM

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, was awake at 4, got to sleep sometime after 5 but was so deep asleep I was confused by the alarm! Feet and neck are sore, but it's Friday. We had rain overnight. Yesterday's dental nurse was so rubbish with suction I kept having to swallow yucky tasting stuff so gagged at one point! Might do an errand after work or might just chillwww
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Hmm, Fire is adding random letters when I press return! Hope you don't take the rain with you, and safe travels. Will have to reply later, tablets inability to spell and use punctuation is annoying!

[Kath]

Morning! A day with old workmates in prospect. Going to be fun, with a side order of silliness.

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

TGIF & SNAFU.
Have a good day all. Stay safe travelling Mary it looked really bad where they had flash floods.

[Will]

Just when I went to do today's post, the heavens opened. As I really only use traditional post about once a week, that's just typical of my luck!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Alicia – I do keep trying to bend my toes in the hope it will work, this is the first time in nearly 6 months I can half bend them without pain, but typically my ‘good’ foot is worse! I have just accepted that this is a permanent thing now, so rather than trying to walk differently in the hope it won’t hurt the same, I’m just getting on with things and trying to ignore the pain, but might have to cut back on fundraising.

[Will]

As Mary heads South through France, I hear that flash flooding there has carried away a campsite...

[M.T.]

I am a rain goddess Will, didn’t you know that?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

M.T. wrote: "I am a rain goddess Will, didn’t you know that?"

Did you ever meet Arthur Dent?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Hmm, got an amazon package today of some renal biscuits, heard a jangle as I opened the box, to find an additional box in there - a bath grab rail! It's not on my order, so couldn't return it in the normal way, so have had to e-mail Amazon to find out what to do with it! Think wearing boots was a good idea today, as they have my orthotics in - similar step count to yesterday, but feet nowhere near as sore, which is good.

[Kelly]

Ah - sorry you are in pain Desley. x

MT, you are actually supplying an international service and they will probably be commenting on it in drought stricken-areas - "never fear, the British send MTM to us. All will be well." Please miss out the Channel Islands on your way home. It's already raining and grey here with extremely intermittent sunshine!

Yippee-aye-ayyy I am now on annual leave until 28th August. Yee hah. Having a staycation but may venture to Sark, one of the other islands, for a couple of days. No cars, you hire bikes, no streetlights, dirt roads, lovely restaurants and tea-rooms and glorious beaches. May even go to the UK for a few days.

I have shed-loads of stuff to be getting on with but will also chill.

What do you think of the place so far, Patti? You do have an exciting life.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Ooh, hope you enjoy your annual leave Kel.

Had a very prompt response from Amazon, apologising, confirming I hadn't been charged and to save any inconvenience, keep the additional item - shame its nothing I can use but the charity have a stall on a flea market

[Patti (baconater)]

Good morning lovelies.

Enjoy your hols Mary and Kelly! I do hope you've got good weather for it.

Really enjoying it here so far. Our new colleagues seem a nice bunch. There's a couple of real characters.
Spending the day at the new school was interesting but the day could have easily been compressed into a couple of hours. Lots of sitting around doing nothing.
They had a doctor come in and talk about healthy living in Myanmar. If we'd not already lived and travelled all over the world, the info could have been quite daunting. Didn't learn anything i didn't already know.
We're meant to go out sightseeing today. Not sure if we will. We're both pretty tired.