Thanks

I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the lovely comments you left on my rather dreich entry from yesterday :o) Luckily for you all this bug can't be passed on via the internet...I feel particularly vile today and the boys are trying to avoid me as much as possible...Well maybe that's a good side effect as am having some peace and quiet through here whilst they are in one of the bedrooms LOL...Am going to have to grab a friend to get some bits and bobs from asda for me though as we're running out of juice etc...Costs a fortune just getting from corner shop but needs must...Besides am in dire need of some lightbulbs...Specialist ones and asda is cheapest place to get them...My big sis and youngest nephew have birthdays tomorrow and mon but am sure they will be understanding about getting late cards and pressies...I have managed to get most of the decorations down and packed up but not put away so living room is covered in boxes...Need to get the rest down today and am hoping that G will help me get the high up stuff down...I had asked him to put the rubbish out yesterday morning before he went to respite but he forgot...So i dragged meself down the stairs to put in the street bins...Well you could have knocked me down with a feather...Being not quite with it i chucked the two bags in one of the bins then realised all the other bins were *missing*...Then i saw two men glaring at me from a van...WHOOPS...The on street bins were installed in my street either 5 or 6 years past last august...Individual wheelie bins aren't an option in the old victorian tenemants that are my street...Now when they installed them we were told they would be cleaned out and thoroughly washed once a year...Have they heck, they've never been washed that any of us have seen...Well this van yesterday was round to wash them...So am guessing they didn't wash the one that me and someone else threw our rubbish into...Instead of glaring at us they could have shouted out to stop us and ask us politely to wait say 15 mins until they'd finished...They might come back and do the bin they missed HAHAHA!!!! Yeah right in another 5-6 years time maybe...Oh and just one more thing...I saw on the news either last week or early this week something about education...The government suggesting that every pupil in a school has some kind of action plan so they don't get left out and missed...Well perhaps our government should take a look at how special needs schools operate...And how special needs pupils in mainstream schools are set up, or supposed to be set up...Am not entirely sure about england but in scotland i know that every pupil (both mainstream and sen) with special needs has to have an individual education plan (IEP)...Now from what i read on the news this is what they seem to want for every pupil...Something i have always said over the years is every pupil could do with having an IEP...In fact another thing the government was proposing for schools was pupils learning life skills...Well again our government should take a look at SEN schools and SEN bases(units)...Life skills are taught as matter of course in these places...You know maybe SEN schools have a better education policy than mainstream LOL...PERHAPS by introducing policies from SEN into mainstream then inclusion would actually work...Maybe our SEN pupils are going to leave school better equipped to deal with life outside school than those rote learned to pass tests & exams...Just a thought :o)

Toodle pip tc xx