The Garden of Dreams.
The table is now rebuilt and technically it might be a bar. It has only two legs, figured it was not so knickable with only two.
BBQ arrangements all left with the school to carry out. Parents, pupils school govenors and VIP’s only.
Now this is the thing? When I look back at my education secondary, junior and primary, which must be over 40 years ago now…….. I remember some badly behaved and problematic children with some degree of learning disability. A few years ago I may well have agreed with you if you suggested their was no such thing as ADHD, just bad behaviour. Now I would strongly disagree. I believe it to be real, and have worked with a number of children on two diferent projects who have medicated and unmedicated versions of it.
It is very hard to get results with these children and I compare them with my school contemporaries I mentioned earlier from 40 years ago and there was nothing like it going on. These children can not carry out a task for longer than a few minuites before running off to disrupt others. They are unable to controll this no matter how many detensions, exclusions or even sympathy, patience and time invested in their well being and development.
So: is there chemicals in our diet, something in the water which makes this terrible thing happen? Does it wear off and do you grow out of it in early adulthood? There seems so much of it about in the younger generations, my childrens contemporaries and classmates are afflicted.
Yet non of mine are?
Tables gone innit
sawn off at the point where the wood goes into the metal.
We’ve a BBQ with parents, school govenors and the agency I am working for is sending some more senior staff I believe.
The heat is on:
Staff off sick
moral is low
and I am not going to mention the gossip around the school!
D day is 2 July and a small…….ish part the budget has been used for unknown expenditure to me : venue hire sort of expenditure. Which is cool, as I went there for a meeting, that wasnt organised by me.
So living on the edge.
A preview at the After School Club.
I have 21 children (some double sided) cut outs made from 18mm plywood. I took a few into the after school club to see what they looked like and where we might put them. I have about 4 left to complete.
They caused a stir, which is the point really. I also have about a dozen flowers to go with them.
The North South Divide.
(St. Helens part one)
I have recently returned from installing the ‘Ward names Mosaic’ at St. Helens Hospital. As usuall the unexpected happens on these occasions. The weather was sunny and very breezey which meant the cement dried very quickly (I deliberatly didnt use quick drying cement either) the result is a lot of what I call ‘cutting back’, where you cant leave cement down very long before removing it, because it has formed a crust on the top of it already. Lay your mosaic on cement with a dry crust on top and regret it.
I put masking tape all round the edge of the mosaic to protect the stailess steel perimiter. This took 2 bottles nail varnish remover from Morrisons, and a container of evo stick glue and grease remover to get the poxy stuff off. It had cooked hard on there with the sun.
But the most apparent thing, was peoples attitude. I dont know if scousers are just happy, jolly, friendly folk anyway? But compared to the south easteners…say M25 and below, god we are such miserable batrasds
When ever I have worked in the SE people just moan that their taxes are paying for this shite, and that money would be much better spent on their drains which have been blocked for 18 months, which the council haven’t sorted out yet! But any other part of the country folk are interested, complimentary and can exchange views and chat away happily for ages. One converstation led to Woolwich and Canterbury where this old boy was stationed with the artillery. These are towns I know very well and have lived very close by them both.
Maybe S. Easterners have mellowed a little over the years with free museum and gallery entry, and folk are more used to seeing and being around art and stuff on the streets more. But I dont think I have distorted things too much.
