Hey You!
How did the first day back at school go for you my Directors Of The Bored?
I only ended up writing to one teacher, and exactly zero head teachers which is a bonus, and I have to say, over the Easter period it looks like they’ve been working on structuring lessons and how those roll out to the pupils, because it appears vastly improved.
Fingers crossed. It’s early days again for all of us.
Although some have already chucked it, which I can equally understand.
I think the thing we all benefitted from most in our house was having some sort of routine to get back into.
There’s talk of face to face teaching online soon which I can only assume means a Zoom or Microsoft Teams Video Call /Conference. I’ll have to internalise my hand gesture response to assignments by that point.
On the blog today, let’s start with one which fits People Are Amazing and The Useful section.
Joe, for the record, has raised over 91 thousand pounds for the NHS to date with his online PE classes, which have 1.7 million subscribers via youtube. So far he’s only done 20 of them!
Fantastic.
Although, I suppose it does also highlight how little youtube pay out. Think of the difference if they’d simply paid a pound per subscriber signed up, instead of a little over 5 pence per person. Seems a little shabby on their part, not that I want Joe to lose confidence in what he’s doing.
Pray he doesn’t find out about the boy who’s raised 20 million from lapping his garden 100 times.
Shhhhh.
Also in our Useful section today, (although possibly not Joe’s if he can’t stop eating) the recipe for IKEA’s Swedish Meatballs.
Up until now, people have flocked to them like seagulls at the tip, given they’re a food which falls lovingly into the category of tasting pretty good considering how little you’ve paid.
The only real downside to IKEA’s Swedish Meatballs was that you had to go to IKEA to get them.
Well, not anymore.
Of course that was always the way they’d release the instructions.
I’ve long since held a theory that job interviews at IKEA involve you walking into the office to be greeted by a panel sitting behind a desk. On the floor directly in front of you, an IKEA office chair, flat-packed. Assemble it, the job’s yours.
This is just brilliant. I could simply have stuck it in The Funnies, or People Are Amazing, but I’ve plumped for here in The Useful.
World Of The Weird
This section investigates changes in behaviour during Lockdown. For some it means having more time to spend at home with their pets. So, teaching their deaf dog sign language becomes an achievable, realistic goal.
But World Of The Weird is also about changes in human behaviour. To be fair, I think there’s been a steady move towards this type of thing from the general public for some time, but Lockdown has accentuated that behaviour or exacerbated the speed of the decline. I’m talking about our capacity to not give a stuff over the big things like Climate Change or Extinction Events, only to build a considerable froth at the mouth over the colour of a dress, or, in the cases of these two stories from the Daily Mirror, the correct way to populate your cutlery drawer, and the optimum hand position to adopt when holding a burger to avoid any spillage of its contents.
I’ve just about managed to avoid being drawn into the burger argument, but any fool knows your cutlery drawer should be set out the way you would set the table. Knife, far right, fork in the middle, spoon to the left. If you’re going to get angry with anybody, make it the drawer manufacturer for not allowing a place for soup spoons on the right and dessert spoons up above. And I won’t say any more on the subject.
Thank God. It’s time for The Funnies.
Today’s News In Brief
Let’s play out with some music.
Thanks for reading.
Stay safe x
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