How Was Your Day? High Five

[Chloe O'brien]

Wow Good luck on the move Shiv, hope everything works out well for you. How do the kids feel about moving to Germany.

[Abigail]

Psychology teacher set us a load of work to force us to revise his way.

Teachers don't know everything. Revise the way you want to, not the way your teacher says you should. Everybody works differently and your teacher should recognise that.

[Kirsty :]]

Congratulations on the move Siobhan good luck!


Ugh I thought things were supposed to get better when they've gotten so bad. Everything seems to be falling apart around me, at first it was school but now things are going wrong at home, it seems liek I have nowhere and no-one to go to clear my head. Nothing I say/do seems to help at home, and I can't do right in school either. I really do give up with everything now.

end rant.

[Perdita]

I feel so low and down, not been like this for a long time. Work is soo frustrating at the moment and to top it all, I have just found out that on Monday and Tuesday next week there will be strikes all over the place and I need to go to meetings. I don't look forward to pass all the people on the gates

[Siobhan]

Wow Good luck on the move Shiv, hope everything works out well for you. How do the kids feel about moving to Germany.

Ben is grand about it but Charley not so much.. she will miss her friends... Her dad said he would move close by too so she will still see him.. I can't get her to understand there is webcams, emails and ireland is only 2 hour flight away...

[Trinity]

I feel so low and down, not been like this for a long time. Work is soo frustrating at the moment and to top it all, I have just found out that on Monday and Tuesday next week there will be strikes all over the place and I need to go to meetings. I don't look forward to pass all the people on the gates

It's not like you to feel low.

I know how frustrating work can be - especially when things are not going as smoothly as they should, but you can only do what you can and you should go easy on yourself.

Strikes are awful, and it is horrendous having to go through picket lines - what country are you in at the moment? Is there any way the meetings can be rescheduled or relocated? Alternatively is video conferencing an option? If you absolutely have to go through the picket lines, just take any leaflets and be polite. It is often only when you try to make a dash for it that they get annoyed.

[Perdita]

I live in Germany and the meetings cannot be rescheduled or relocated, I have done this once already and a couple of the people I need to speak to will not be around for a long time after Monday, next week is the only chance I have to make headway in the job. I need to pass the picket line to get out of my place of work, I hope to get in before they all converge. Still, it is a short week as Friday is Good Friday and I will have a long weekend.

[Trinity]

I hate going through picket lines, it has happened to me a few times - once on the first day of a new job Thankfully, the pickets have been understanding and really just wanted to bring attention to their dispute rather than the violent picket lines we saw during the miners strike.

Also, most of them gathered in the morning, there were none left when I was leaving in the evening. They also were more interested in people going into work rather than those leaving, so if you get in early you should miss the worst of it.

I have no idea what picket lines are like in Germany, but you need to try to put it out of your mind and relax over the weekend.

Take care
x

[DaVeyWaVey]

Try and not let it get to you Perdita (however that may be difficult) Enjoy the weekend and try and not think too much about it.

I always find it helps whenever I am in a situation I don't want to be in, I look forward and think of the things I'm most looking forward too to give me a boost. Just think you will have a short week and Easter is just around the corner!

All the best

[Chloe O'brien]

I took Marley to see Monsters V Aliens very funny film. Kiefer really sends himself up in this film, he plays and army general who advices the President and he says stuff like "you have to listen Mr President" not having a dig at 24 at all or am I looking too much in to it. Then got a phone call when I came home from my neice in law Claire. Claire and Gary my nephew are taken Marley to Haven in Blackpool on Wednesday but they phone to say they are taking her tomorrow until Monday as well they are going camping in the campervan down the east cost to Eyemouth and Haven at Seaton Sands, which is just outside Edinburgh so I am getting piece all weekend