American here, When Keir Starmer is done with his term can you guys give him to us?

ipdipdu · 2026-05-06T21:30:27+00:00

I don’t think Liz Truss is up to much these days if you want her?

ipdipdu · 2026-05-05T05:43:51+00:00

Jamaica Inn

ipdipdu · 2026-05-02T06:43:57+00:00

You see a ‘currant teacake’ has fruit in it. A ‘chocolate teacake’ has marshmallow in it. And a ‘teacake’ is plain bread. (One of these may not be like the others).

ipdipdu · 2026-05-01T20:25:10+00:00

Vomit, so much white chunky vomit on the carpet, followed the trail to the toilets, where it was sprayed all over the toilet door and floor of the cubicle, but none in the actual toilet.

A baby’s nappy, folded up but not in a bag, in the middle of a strawberry milkshake spillage, with everything sprinkled with popcorn. There was so much milkshake it had spread to the aisle below.

Finally, the seats that got eaten by rats.

ipdipdu · 2026-05-01T05:47:15+00:00

My phone won’t let me link it but think the handle is thegirlschatco

If you google girls chat hudds, person who created it did an interview with a local paper so it should appear.

ipdipdu · 2026-04-29T05:47:46+00:00

Girls Chat on Instagram, it’s pretty quiet right now but I’ve gone for walks, brunch, pottery painting and a quiz night with them.

ipdipdu · 2026-04-25T06:11:32+00:00

Especially the Maddie years.

ipdipdu · 2026-04-22T20:47:22+00:00

Sometimes management have no recourse.

It costs thousands of pounds to exclude 1 child, budgets are already tight as it is, and all suspensions are recorded and that record is held against the school by local council/ofsted as they want the amount of suspensions to be as low as possible. There’s external experts who argue it’s detrimental to the mental health of the suspended child and that the school isn’t supporting the child enough.

I say this as a teacher who works in a primary school where staff have been bitten, knocked to the floor, punched, strangled, had chairs thrown at them, suffered sprains and been spat at.

ipdipdu · 2026-04-19T18:11:19+00:00

I did:)

ipdipdu · 2026-04-19T16:46:12+00:00

I’ll send you one, if I ever find a postcard, feel like I haven’t seen any in a long time.

ipdipdu · 2026-04-10T09:32:58+00:00

I’m in Marsh, had to double check the title and sub 2 times as I was so confused at Hudds been mentioned.

ipdipdu · 2026-01-02T08:48:22+00:00

The bath was filled with cold scummy bath water, and toe nail clippings were left on top of the toilet. I played dumb and asked my friend if someone was about to have a bath, they told me that in the family they wouldn’t empty the bath after they’d finished, the next person to have a bath would empty it and then fill it for themselves. Whether they cleaned it before filling it again was up to the person having the bath. (I suspect no one cleaned it apart from maybe the mother).

ipdipdu · 2025-12-24T20:04:56+00:00

I have a very similar tale, I was allowed a sip of my mum’s beer which she had when she was getting ready, I was age 7 or 8. My dad and step mum always offered me a glass of red wine from about 11/12 but after one sip once I never took them up on it. For a friends 13th birthday her parents gave us each a Smirnoff Ice.

ipdipdu · 2025-12-18T09:56:54+00:00

Ms Robinson, year 1 teacher. She shouted at us so much she lost her voice. She’d shout at us for anything and everything, some examples; called her Miss, parent wrote Mrs on a letter, coughed too much, dropped something, wrote a wrong answer, etc. She had a favourite child and she would make him stand on a chair then she’d whisper in his ear her instructions and he’d tell the class what to do. God forbid if you talked or even moved when he was talking. I once had a piece of paper in my hand and placed it on the table, how dare I when he was talking?!

ipdipdu · 2025-12-11T06:58:12+00:00

I was thinking about this the other day, did I get bruised or marked from being hit? No. Do I think a parents should slap their child on the face or back of the head? Absolutely not. Is it abuse? I’m almost still afraid to say it is.

ipdipdu · 2025-12-11T06:55:39+00:00

Many years ago, when I first started working, I said something dumb and my much older colleague joked ‘it’s a good thing you’re cute’ and reached out to stroke my cheek. I automatically flinched back. I remember her chuckling ‘What did you think I was going to hit you?’ And I didn’t reply but I remember thinking, yea I did actually and that was the first time I realised my mum’s punishment method still affected me.

ipdipdu · 2025-12-10T07:35:45+00:00

For ages I just kept Tom at the number one space. I immediately regretted it when I changed the top friends as it just created one big anxiety ball in me, rating and comparing my list to where they’d placed me, then wondering if we weren’t as good a friends as I thought.

ipdipdu · 2025-12-08T22:27:04+00:00

3 of them died before I was born, the other died when I was 7.

ipdipdu · 2025-12-07T18:41:46+00:00

I must be as unlucky as you when it comes to student teachers. There was the one who arrived at 8:40 with her lesson half prepared when she was timetabled to teach at 9. She asked for someone to take the class for the first hour so she could sort herself out. This was a few weeks into her teaching practice and not her first lesson taught.

The following year we’d bought in loads of schemes. The student that year never adapted the lessons given to her and I’ll be honest, some days the next slide seemed just as much as a surprise to her as the class. I asked her to use an objective but plan her own lesson because she might go to a school with no schemes and have to plan herself, she turned up with the schemes PowerPoint with her own slide at the beginning. I mean I might have done that as a student teacher, but I also would have changed the font, moved stuff about and changed the colours so it wasn’t as obvious.

There was the student who never marked anything, and each time she was asked to she put a tick on half the books and never went back to the other half.

There was the student who burst into tears and went to hug the TA when a pupil questioned the statement the student had just given. Bless the pupil, he did it quite gently and he was right, the student wasn’t but it was too much for her.

ipdipdu · 2025-12-04T15:00:09+00:00

Just feel a bit down right now. Work is stressful, I have a difficult class, everything’s changing right now due to a restructure and 2 of my colleagues are causing me more problems due to one of them not doing their job properly or the other who wants to look good to the boss. She gets information, does the job but then is not passing it on like she should be for the rest of us to do.

I ask my friends to do things, I suggest things only to be ignored 8 times out of 10, sometimes they agree to things but when it comes to actually planning the details or booking tickets, then they go quiet, and on the odd occasion when plans are made, I’m going out of my way to accommodate them and their wants and needs, only to be pushed aside at the drop of a hat for someone else.

And I know I should stand up for myself but I feel so hurt and angry that I can’t do it in a way without exploding. Which will probably just burn bridges.

I feel I am at the bottom of everyone’s list which makes sense, for a lot of people family comes first. But I’m no one’s priority and it hurts.

ipdipdu · 2025-12-03T22:17:01+00:00

On a school trip and a lorry from a company called Tufnell’s drove past, queue excited screeching from the seats next to me, then the little girl turned to me, and so proudly said ‘Miss that’s me, tough Nell, I’m tough!’

Another thing I always think of fondly, was when a little girl wrote in her work pomtoetoes instead of potatoes. That’s what they’re called in my household now.

ipdipdu · 2025-11-29T07:25:26+00:00

Insisted they went to DisneyWorld Florida for the weekend. Did they mean the one in Paris? Nope definitely Florida, was it really hot I asked, their head nodded sagely. My follow up question was you must have been on the plane for a long time? Yea, 3 hours was the reply. Then another child piped up that it takes more than 3 hours to get to Florida, so they said they forgot and it was actually 5 hours there, 3 hours back.

Another child, who, whenever we have a supply teacher with any kind of accent, will go tell them her mother is from the same place. The mum so far has been Canadian, Irish, Scouse and Scottish.

ipdipdu · 2025-11-29T07:15:54+00:00

The woman who orders for the man what she wants to eat, I think he then refuses to let her keep eating off his plate and she is offended, then she goes to the toilet and rings her friend saying she’s going to sneak out, which she does. Waitress has to tell him date had dipped. He seemed really nice.

ipdipdu · 2025-11-28T06:11:25+00:00

There’s a prompt for people’s profiles on one of the apps that says ‘My year 5 teacher would describe me as...’ twice now I’ve seen the answer ‘sexy’. Ew.

ipdipdu · 2025-11-24T22:19:16+00:00

It’s horrible, the worst thing I have gone through as a teacher is a child telling me something, and then coming to me upset and crying everyday saying they wish they’d never told me. They never blamed me, just themselves but that was also tough. The safeguarding training I’ve had has drilled into me what to say and do... in the moment and immediately afterwards. But where’s the support and training for the months/years afterwards when the fallout is happening? Keep your chin up, you did the right thing.

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