Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

Muckit · 30-08-2016 08:44PM

farmersfriend wrote: »

Getting ready for back to school here too, youngest is 9, and says she doesn't need to go anymore!!

Agree with her and hand her the chores list

Muckit · 30-08-2016 08:50PM

Donal skeehan on telly. Can't stand him. He's out in the middle of a lake. In a canoe. With a box of muffins.

How the f**k did he paddle out? So staged. Obviously handed them by the cameraman!

_Brian · 30-08-2016 09:44PM

Covering schoolbooks with clear contact, dose of a job.

Used to be wallpaper or brown paper in my time at school. Or slicers batch loaf wrappers - that took a turn for a year or two. Can't imagine mime would bring the books if I did that.

Price of the damn things you'd think they would have decent covers to protect them.

Base price · 30-08-2016 10:01PM

_Brian wrote: »

Covering schoolbooks with clear contact, dose of a job.

Used to be wallpaper or brown paper in my time at school. Or slicers batch loaf wrappers - that took a turn for a year or two. Can't imagine mime would bring the books if I did that.

Price of the damn things you'd think they would have decent covers to protect them.

Total disgrace the price of schoolbooks and the fact that they bring out "new editions" every other year.
When eldest was in school I got a call from his English teacher giving out that his copy of the Merchant of Venice was out of date :eek:
Needless to say I enjoyed that phone call.

Reggie. · 30-08-2016 10:13PM

Base price wrote: »

Total disgrace the price of schoolbooks and the fact that they bring out "new editions" every other year.
When eldest was in school I got a call from his English teacher giving out that his copy of the Merchant of Venice was out of date :eek:
Needless to say I enjoyed that phone call.

How in the name of jaysus could it be out of date

davidk1394 · 30-08-2016 10:33PM

I'm glad all of that hardship is behind me. The thoughts of it brings shivers down my spine

kollegeknight · 30-08-2016 10:37PM

Reggie. wrote: »

How in the name of jaysus could it be out of date

They change font etc so the page numbers are different. So when homework is assigned, confusion will follow.

We run a book rental scheme at our place, some books are 20 years old and supported by teachers notes to allow for cost of books that are constantly changing.

L1985 · 30-08-2016 11:32PM

Just in from calving a cow there. Calf was coming backwards so we had to jack it out in the rain (shed will be covered in a months time!!)thanks be to everything up there the calf came alive and both cow and calf are happily bonding away now. Thought for sure it was dead-makes life so much easier when you get the wins like that!!

whelan2 · 31-08-2016 05:14AM

kollegeknight wrote: »

They change font etc so the page numbers are different. So when homework is assigned, confusion will follow.

We run a book rental scheme at our place, some books are 20 years old and supported by teachers notes to allow for cost of books that are constantly changing.

Book rental scheme here too for primary and secondary, great job. 40 euro for primary and 120 for secondary. On the merchant of venice, there's also exam questions/notes on the last few pages ,. so these would be updated every few years. Eldest lad only realised they were there the morning of his english exam :rolleyes:

_Brian · 31-08-2016 06:13AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Book rental scheme here too for primary and secondary, great job. 40 euro for primary and 120 for secondary. On the merchant of venice, there's also exam questions/notes on the last few pages ,. so these would be updated every few years. Eldest lad only realised they were there the morning of his english exam :rolleyes:

We've a book rental in the National school but not in secondary. Can't believe it's not compulsory for schools to run the scheme. My wife was on the committee that started it in the national school and it wasn't hard to get going once principal came on board.

charolais0153 · 31-08-2016 08:03AM

The new version of merchant of Venice is a4 and thinner. The older version is more like a copy size. The teacher used the older version for us because it was better

Buford T. Justice XIX · 31-08-2016 08:44AM

davidk1394 wrote: »

I'm glad all of that hardship is behind me. The thoughts of it brings shivers down my spine

It isn't long coming around again;)

Buford T. Justice XIX · 31-08-2016 08:48AM

charolais0153 wrote: »

The new version of merchant of Venice is a4 and thinner. The older version is more like a copy size. The teacher used the older version for us because it was better

I can still quote the opening paragraph of that and I'm not likely to forget it. We had to learn it for our first nights homework and I'd forgotten about it until the bell rang for first class, english:eek:

Out with the book and head down, waiting for the teacher to arrive. Luckily she was 5 minutes late and I had time to learn it off.

Now that speech is carved into my brain forever:o

kowtow · 31-08-2016 09:17AM

Reggie. wrote: »

How in the name of jaysus could it be out of date

Don't.. I had to explain to the boy that King Lear didn't invent the private jet.

Any more brains they'd be half-wits.

kollegeknight · 31-08-2016 09:23AM

_Brian wrote: »

We've a book rental in the National school but not in secondary. Can't believe it's not compulsory for schools to run the scheme. My wife was on the committee that started it in the national school and it wasn't hard to get going once principal came on board.

Book companies hate them. If a school has iPads now and the companies have digital versions of the books- the cost of the book is the same but the license expires after 3 or 2 years depending on course. So the book rental scheme becomes too expensive for a school to run.

_Brian · 31-08-2016 09:27AM

kollegeknight wrote: »

Book companies hate them. If a school has iPads now and the companies have digital versions of the books- the cost of the book is the same but the license expires after 3 or 2 years depending on course. So the book rental scheme becomes too expensive for a school to run.

Book rental is physical books not digital on iPads.
It actually gets progressively cheaper year on year as the stock of books is built up in the school.
From memory we started at €60 a year and this has come down €5 a year to its current €45 a year. We also had a scheme in the beginning where families donated all books in their ownership to the scheme to start off. It's been very successful.

Lady Haywire · 31-08-2016 09:33AM

We had book rental schemes in both national & secondary, was brilliant. Had great teachers too, they'd remember if we had older brothers & sisters and would tell us to dig out the old exam notes and papers and work off them, getting photocopies where necessary.
So. Many. Photocopies. I guess that was the joy of a secondary school with about 100 or so pupils!! One teacher even diligently photocopied an entire book for everyone in our class (16 pupils) :eek:

ganmo · 31-08-2016 10:17AM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

We had book rental schemes in both national & secondary, was brilliant. Had great teachers too, they'd remember if we had older brothers & sisters and would tell us to dig out the old exam notes and papers and work off them, getting photocopies where necessary.
So. Many. Photocopies. I guess that was the joy of a secondary school with about 100 or so pupils!! One teacher even diligently photocopied an entire book for everyone in our class (16 pupils) :eek:

I had a maths teacher who actually liked an old edition of the maths book for some reason. he made sure to chase down everyone with no younger brothers or sisters in the school to get the book off them at the end of the year to give to the ppl who wouldn't be able to get the old book. He had a fair stack of them!

Buford T. Justice XIX · 31-08-2016 01:40PM

Is tomorrow the first day of the hedge cutting open period?

Coz I've seen quite a few hedge cutters in operation the last few days.

Reggie. · 31-08-2016 01:50PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Is tomorrow the first day of the hedge cutting open period?

Coz I've seen quite a few hedge cutters in operation the last few days.

Don't hang them

whelan2 · 31-08-2016 01:53PM

Has anyone got a link to the form you fill in when sending cattle to the factory?

Buford T. Justice XIX · 31-08-2016 02:16PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Don't hang them

They're not bothering me but I'd have an inspection if the hedgecutter turned in here for a cup of tea:pac:

orm0nd · 31-08-2016 02:22PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Has anyone got a link to the form you fill in when sending cattle to the factory?

https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/foodsafetyconsumerissues/controlsonmeat/foodchaininformation/FCICATTLEIForm.pdf

whelan2 · 31-08-2016 02:42PM

orm0nd wrote: »

https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/foodsafetyconsumerissues/controlsonmeat/foodchaininformation/FCICATTLEIForm.pdf

Thanks

ganmo · 31-08-2016 02:45PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

They're not bothering me but I'd have an inspection if the hedgecutter turned in here for a cup of tea:pac:

ya the first, gonna get a bit of furze burnt if it stays dry

kowtow · 31-08-2016 05:24PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Is tomorrow the first day of the hedge cutting open period?

Coz I've seen quite a few hedge cutters in operation the last few days.

They are probably just limbering up.

No good going out with a stiff cutting arm when the time comes.

ganmo · 31-08-2016 06:30PM

I just found about the golden goose award. It's given to bonkers research projects from 10 years ago that resulted in having a positive result on our life today

whelan2 · 31-08-2016 06:50PM

kowtow wrote: »

They are probably just limbering up.

No good going out with a stiff cutting arm when the time comes.

Met 2 hedgecutters on a 3 mile journey there now

longgonesilver · 31-08-2016 08:53PM

Traveling now so that they can be ready to cut at midnight. Quick nap now and cut round the clock then!

tanko · 31-08-2016 09:34PM

Anyone watching "older than ireland" on RTE about the people older than 100? It's hilarious.

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