Where Have I Been??

Firstly- does anyone know whether its ok to clean the laptop screen with windscreen washer?
Because I just did and now I'm waiting for it to go kaboom or kersploj or whatever screens do when they are really, really annoyed...

Where have I been?

At school, and excessively, manically, completely and frantically busy. Did I mention at the start of March we were informed by the Department of Education that we'd be having a Whole School Inspection in April?
Cue for panic- and extreme indignation all round.

Temporary accommodation ie. prefabs?
Half the contents of each classroom either in storage or in boxes?
Rooms too small to accommodate the usual wide range of class activities?
No display or pin-boards?
No communal meeting area?
Constant statistical problems with lights, water, sewage, leaks, heavy doors, wrong loos, yadda yadda?
All community access to school on hold for 18 months?

Answer 'yes' to all the above and more. The Report from the Inspection will be online for anyone to read for the next ten years or so, and there is no way we will come up shining with all those restrictions. No quarter given from the Inspectors, right pair of bags they are too- we met them.

Not that it has much to do with the Office Witch here, but its the principle of the thing; when you know the staff are good, committed, hardworking teachers and you know the Principal runs a tight ship, and you know that the Report wont do them all justice, well, its enough to make the blood boil so it is.

Term finished on Friday but I went in to the Office today to finish up stuff I hadn't got done, and there were three teachers in working. Wednesday I said I'd be in the Office in case there is anything they can let me do to speed up their own work, and judging from various texts I've received, all the teachers will be there.

Easter Holidays howarya!
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Golly to goodness, her sisters have helped Eldest upstairs to get ready together to go out...how the heck do we get her back down again? Piggy back? Don't watch this space, and Please put your fingers in your ears...

Addressing the...CyberNation...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Umbrellas and Walking Sticks,
I'd like to tell you Something I know Nothing About...

Well, actually I do, but that's how the rhyme goes!

This will probably be the only post this week by heckety loud-mouth- whew! a break! sez you!

Yesterday I came across a local Craft Fair I hadn't known about, and emailed a last minute application to participate- mad! mad! mad!
All day Saturday 23rd  July in Johnson's Court, Sligo, organised by the newly formed

Atlantic Writers and Artists CoOp.

Anyhow, the answer came back 'Delighted!' (understand, they've never met me...) so its all hands to deck and an industrious week of production coming up! I'll take all the Shop items of course, but need to make a bunch of other stuff too, finish off things, etc etc.

Look forward to a quiet week in this quarter, and please forgive if comments or emails aren't answered until the weekend!

Also I'm going to Glasnevin, to the Botanic Gardens tomorrow to see The Irish Patchwork Society Quilt Exhibition, which should good...if wet...I'll knit on the train!!

Tally ho! Amigas! Have a peaceful week!

PS I'm hoping this isn't meds-based optimism/ courage? I'm hoping when it comes to Saturday morning I can really do this? Think of me Saturday morning 8am please?!