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[Krystyna23040]

Well done @Krystyna23040 I'm sure your students appreciate your efforts (on a Saturday and weekdays as always). The profession has much to be proud of, during the pandemic. The challenge of duplicating virtual and face-to-face learning must be very tiring. I wonder how you assess student progress from the virtual classes. Maybe students submit written exercises by e-mail. More marking!

@True Blue - I absolutely agree that teachers are coping brilliantly as teaching is especially challenging during these very difficult times. I am very lucky that I teach pilates classes and am not a school teacher.

My son-in-law is changing careers and will soon be a qualified secondary school teacher and I have been quite shocked at just how much effort he is putting in during his work placements.

 

[Krystyna23040]

@Krystyna23040 I hope today isn't too demanding and there is still some you time. Watched a programme about 2 farming families selling their local produce (beef and wine) here. Looked interesting if, like all farmers' markets, very "aspirational". Is this somewhere you have been, close to you or not something that would interest you? You never know, once there is a "new normal" we may pass each other without ever knowing should we both go there. On to Wells and round the coast for foodie goodies - Deli in and Smoke house at Cley. Walsingham also in that area.

Really enjoyed classes today and am now relaxing catching up with posts. We also saw the same programme and thought that we must visit once we are allowed to travel further. It is not that far from us but we have never been there.

 

[geefull]

good evening all

4.5 today

very cold here today, we'd had a covering of snow when I got up today and it didn't get warm enough to melt it all day. We did get a short walk in though

Complicated stuff in here today, it's a long time since I did A level maths

@gennepher - very difficult for you this medical sleight of hand with the online 'support' not very conducive to peace of mind

I'm glad our local practices haven't gone that way (at least not yet), they moved into a shared building but the practices both still have doctors, they are training practices too.
I'm glad that your detour home turned out to be such a pleasant experience, especially valuable during this lockdown.

I like today's painting, those trees have a great sense of scale and the sky is a hopeful blue

@dunelm - nice texture in your painting today, and the mountains feel very solid, that sound like an interesting brush

@Muddy Cyclist - I do like your idea of keeping your dad's instruments like that

My dad was a toolmaker in the aircraft industry (precision engineer, they make the tools, jigs and prototypes for other engineers), he had two boxes full of things and since he had trained so many apprentices we agreed to give his specialist tools to the local engineering training centre. I still have some of his smaller drawing items though.

Nice start to your 'sweet chestnut' painting, you do have a way with trees I look forward to seeing the finished painting.

art bit -
a bit of a change today, another go with the Anilinki dye based paints, thought I'd have a go at doing a Japanese style wisteria.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Very, very nice. A great memento to your dad, the sliderule looks well used and the micrometer is probably a collectors item in these days of digital vernier calipers.

Thank you. I have the original case for the micrometer with oil cloth inside. Each instrument is stamped with dadsinitials W T M
My camper van is also named after dad with his hand written name on the bonnet and back door. Good memories are so important,I have hand written life stories from mom and dad which I must get around to digitalising.

Dads hand written name, note his W is similar to V W logo so I used this for the VW logo on the side of my camper...

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

good evening all

4.5 today

very cold here today, we'd had a covering of snow when I got up today and it didn't get warm enough to melt it all day. We did get a short walk in though

Complicated stuff in here today, it's a long time since I did A level maths

@gennepher - very difficult for you this medical sleight of hand with the online 'support' not very conducive to peace of mind

I'm glad our local practices haven't gone that way (at least not yet), they moved into a shared building but the practices both still have doctors, they are training practices too.
I'm glad that your detour home turned out to be such a pleasant experience, especially valuable during this lockdown.

I like today's painting, those trees have a great sense of scale and the sky is a hopeful blue

@dunelm - nice texture in your painting today, and the mountains feel very solid, that sound like an interesting brush

@Muddy Cyclist - I do like your idea of keeping your dad's instruments like that

My dad was a toolmaker in the aircraft industry (precision engineer, they make the tools, jigs and prototypes for other engineers), he had two boxes full of things and since he had trained so many apprentices we agreed to give his specialist tools to the local engineering training centre. I still have some of his smaller drawing items though.

Nice start to your 'sweet chestnut' painting, you do have a way with trees I look forward to seeing the finished painting.

art bit -
a bit of a change today, another go with the Anilinki dye based paints, thought I'd have a go at doing a Japanese style wisteria.

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Thank you, great your dads tools are being put to good use.

I do like that Japanese style wisteria And those paints are ideal inyouracvomplishedhands.

 

[True Blue]

@True Blue - I absolutely agree that teachers are coping brilliantly as teaching is especially challenging during these very difficult times. I am very lucky that I teach pilates classes and am not a school teacher.

My son-in-law is changing careers and will soon be a qualified secondary school teacher and I have been quite shocked at just how much effort he is putting in during his work placements.

Hi @Krystyna23040 I did wonder, as most teachers make a last minute dive for the photocopier before classes, rather than drink coffee. Your son-in-law is "in at the deep end". Every good wish for his success.

 

[lindisfel]

This is the closest I get to manipulating numbers, dad was a design engineer and used these tools, I just put them in a frame look at them and remember musch easier than useing them, actually I have no idea how to use them.
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Hi Muddy,
It was log tables at school in the 50's and slide rules when I went toTechnical College at 16. I used a micrometer all the time as an apprentice to get the size of wires to rewind industrial armatures and motor stators.
Anyone who had a motor bike and a car then used feeler guages all the time on points and plugs, Of course tappets needed to be set up with four stroke motor bikes. It was a hands on world.
I had to teach myself cos I didn't have a male role model to show me.

I had been working in the beeb sometime before Clive Sinclair produced a calculator kit to make up. It used Polish logic!
My first scientific calculator was a Rockwell, it still works after a fashion. I have to use Polish logic...it won't subtract now I have to add minus numbers to subtract.
Times have changed.
D.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Hi @Krystyna23040 I did wonder, as most teachers make a last minute dive for the photocopier before classes, rather than drink coffee. Your son-in-law is "in at the deep end". Every good wish for his success.

I think he will make a really good teacher and definitely would not be relaxing and drinking coffee before classes.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Hi Muddy,
It was log tables at school in the 50's and slide rules when I went toTechnical College at 16. I used a micrometer all the time as an apprentice to get the size of wires to rewind industrial armatures and motor stators.
Anyone who had a motor bike and a car then used feeler guages all the time on points and plugs, Of course tappets needed to be set up with four stroke motor bikes. It was a hands on world.
I had to teach myself cos I didn't have a male role model to show me.

I had been working in the beeb sometime before Clive Sinclair produced a calculator kit to make up. It used Polish logic!
My first scientific calculator was a Rockwell, it still works after a fashion. I have to use Polish logic...it won't subtract now I have to add minus numbers to subtract.
Times have changed.
D.

Strangely enough me and me's understood every word of your post

 

[jjraak]

Me too - this forum seems to be my "local" atm as there is not aloty socialising happening on the outside world which I really miss as I am very much a people person and do like a good blether/chat. I am still missing my old colleagues/friends from the job I lost last year and day to day banter because of all this covid mularkey, I still chat to people but it is not the same - I don't think it is going to be for a while yet but then things can quickly change - I hope ... onwards and upwards as they say ...

Sorry about the job loss.
So much of it about sadly

people person here, too.

So I do get how deep that can impact .
with social interaction & banter severely limited for so many.

That's why I enjoy visiting this thread.
It's now simply a part of my daily routine.

That communal aspect of others ups & downs, the coming together of our commiserations & congratulations, have certainly helped me remain grateful and upbeat during some of this pandemics darker moments.

So here's to more ups then downs, until the worst is all behind us.

 

[gennepher]

good evening all

4.5 today

very cold here today, we'd had a covering of snow when I got up today and it didn't get warm enough to melt it all day. We did get a short walk in though

Complicated stuff in here today, it's a long time since I did A level maths

@gennepher - very difficult for you this medical sleight of hand with the online 'support' not very conducive to peace of mind

I'm glad our local practices haven't gone that way (at least not yet), they moved into a shared building but the practices both still have doctors, they are training practices too.
I'm glad that your detour home turned out to be such a pleasant experience, especially valuable during this lockdown.

I like today's painting, those trees have a great sense of scale and the sky is a hopeful blue

@dunelm - nice texture in your painting today, and the mountains feel very solid, that sound like an interesting brush

@Muddy Cyclist - I do like your idea of keeping your dad's instruments like that

My dad was a toolmaker in the aircraft industry (precision engineer, they make the tools, jigs and prototypes for other engineers), he had two boxes full of things and since he had trained so many apprentices we agreed to give his specialist tools to the local engineering training centre. I still have some of his smaller drawing items though.

Nice start to your 'sweet chestnut' painting, you do have a way with trees I look forward to seeing the finished painting.

art bit -
a bit of a change today, another go with the Anilinki dye based paints, thought I'd have a go at doing a Japanese style wisteria.

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Hi @geefull
Thanks for the painting compliment, and your words.
That little detour home has given me images in my mind for at least a few days worth of digital paintings...

I love your Wisteria with the Anilinki paints. It is beautiful.
I see this and your other flower painting as part of a gift type blank notebook you buy/are given, that you think is so beautiful that you cannot bear to write any notes/diary stuff in, and you just turn over the pages when you are sitting down for a few moments having a cuppa...

 

[True Blue]

Morning all.
Cold here, minus 2 C overnight. Warmer Tuesday onwards, so will wash and wax the car then, when the salt has been washed off the roads.
FBG 7.3 mmo/lt at 0630 hrs. Still losing weight, so think FBG will follow, as eighteen months' ago.

 

[ianpspurs]

Another Sunday dawns dark, cold, frosty and sees me awake much earlier than I need. The heating doesn't come on until 5.30 and I deal with the dogs at 6.00. Starting with a 4.9 on Swipey my data feels sub-optimal but I guess it isn't really, Many a 65.6 yo with T2 and 1.6 yrs on from bladder cancer surgery would feel satisfied with my numbers. Add in a spacious, dry, warm home with all mod cons, plenty of food and guaranteed income (state pension to come in June) and I have a full measure of God's Grace. Still doesn't feel right. Guess I give thanks, move on and remind myself again that feelings don't reflect reality. A day watching cricket from Galle, football from various parts of England and NFL from Green Bay would have seemed miraculous to so many historically. - including my grandfathers whilst in the trenches or at Dunkirk.

 

[dunelm]

This is the closest I get to manipulating numbers, dad was a design engineer and used these tools, I just put them in a frame look at them and remember musch easier than useing them, actually I have no idea how to use them.
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Great way to remember your dad.

 

[dunelm]

I gave friend an oak tree painting I had done for Christmas. Friend now wants me to do two more to match so have made a start...Sweet Chestnut, winter coat.

A4 watercolour will finish Sunday....

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Smashing start to your sweet chestnut, all stripped back to it’s winter coat. Lucky friend.

 

[dunelm]

Another Sunday dawns dark, cold, frosty and sees me awake much earlier than I need. The heating doesn't come on until 5.30 and I deal with the dogs at 6.00. Starting with a 4.9 on Swipey my data feels sub-optimal but I guess it isn't really, Many a 65.6 yo with T2 and 1.6 yrs on from bladder cancer surgery would feel satisfied with my numbers. Add in a spacious, dry, warm home with all mod cons, plenty of food and guaranteed income (state pension to come in June) and I have a full measure of God's Grace. Still doesn't feel right. Guess I give thanks, move on and remind myself again that feelings don't reflect reality. A day watching cricket from Galle, football from various parts of England and NFL from Green Bay would have seemed miraculous to so many historically. - including my grandfathers whilst in the trenches or at Dunkirk.

Nicely said. Difficult as it may sometimes be, we really should look at the positive aspects of our lives and not look jealously at the lot of others.

 

[ianpspurs]

Nicely said. Difficult as it may sometimes be, we really should look at the positive aspects of our lives and not look jealously at the lot of others.

Thank you. I did wonder how that would be received. Take care.

 

[dunelm]

good evening all

4.5 today

very cold here today, we'd had a covering of snow when I got up today and it didn't get warm enough to melt it all day. We did get a short walk in though

Complicated stuff in here today, it's a long time since I did A level maths

@gennepher - very difficult for you this medical sleight of hand with the online 'support' not very conducive to peace of mind

I'm glad our local practices haven't gone that way (at least not yet), they moved into a shared building but the practices both still have doctors, they are training practices too.
I'm glad that your detour home turned out to be such a pleasant experience, especially valuable during this lockdown.

I like today's painting, those trees have a great sense of scale and the sky is a hopeful blue

@dunelm - nice texture in your painting today, and the mountains feel very solid, that sound like an interesting brush

@Muddy Cyclist - I do like your idea of keeping your dad's instruments like that

My dad was a toolmaker in the aircraft industry (precision engineer, they make the tools, jigs and prototypes for other engineers), he had two boxes full of things and since he had trained so many apprentices we agreed to give his specialist tools to the local engineering training centre. I still have some of his smaller drawing items though.

Nice start to your 'sweet chestnut' painting, you do have a way with trees I look forward to seeing the finished painting.

art bit -
a bit of a change today, another go with the Anilinki dye based paints, thought I'd have a go at doing a Japanese style wisteria.

View attachment 47004

Thank you @geefull - yes, Chinese brush construction makes use of some interesting materials.
Wonderful wisteria from you - you have captured the essence of the plant - these Anilinki dye based paints work very well here

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.1 this morning. Today will catch up with reading and relaxing and have decided to delay dog walk until it warms up a little. Apparently it was -4 overnight. Doesn't feel much warmer now.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone, it’s a bit frosty here in the dark and dangerous north so expecting to have a crunchy walk later this morning.
The wonder wheel of some wonderful grilled tuna with a pea shoot salad came in at 4.8 this am.

Interesting banter about things engineering lately - what a diverse thread this is. Our daughter is the office manager at a precision engineering company. She has worked in that industry since leaving school and although now running projects in the office can work all the machinery and turn out all sorts of widgets and thingamybobs when the need arises. Her latest project was our 1 year old granddaughter, her best one yet.

picture today - practicing birds on my roll of backing paper - I also had a go on scraps of rice paper but they came out like the crazed experiments of a taxidermist. Never mind. I can have more goes today. Hope everyone has a pleasant Sunday. Koffy time.