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@aliceleung @MrMCimino The milk chocolate ones in the red wrapper are delicious.

@MrMCimino The milk chocolate ones are good.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but, please do not give Lindt chocolate balls to anyone as a gift this Christmas - they are not good.

@BrennanSurgeon @neil_runkel Thank you for all that you do.

Healthcare often runs on staff goodwill Doing an extra clinic this afternoon in own time to help get our head and neck patients seen before Christmas Such a wonderful feeling to give patients the best Christmas present possible by telling them their cancer has gone 🎄🎄🎄

@HollifieldOwen My husband still does it! It really annoys me because I like to salvage it for use next year or for wrapping pass the parcels.

Did anyone elses father used to sit there with a black garbage bag every Christmas morning waiting to pounce on the discarded Christmas present wrapping?

@ChrisDorrell Thinking of you today. Glad you have happy memories of family times.

She was a fabulous strong independent kind person. Loved by many. She in her latter years was in a wheelchair. I remember one year me pushing mum and dad pushing my nan his mum around Kew Gardens and we decided to have a wheelchair race. She was giggling uncontrollably. X

Haven't been here much today. The reason being that on the 21/12/1983 , 39 years ago my mum died. It often feels like yesterday. I was just 20 she was only 49. She had congenital heart disease. She got the flu, and that actually killed her. Cont

@Katy_primary97 I am so sorry for your loss.

Something that makes me sad about my dad’s death: he was only 58 On the plus side I am coping and have almost enjoyed sorting out my parents house

@DianeLakeside That is great news. Bring on spring and sunshine. ☀️🌷

lol.

@widow_waiting Sending you a big hug. This feels so inadequate but thinking of you and your family.

Busy evening of teatime, bathtime, bedtime. Trip to supermarket (that’s what passes for me time these days). Spoke to my brother & made plans for Hogmanay. Long chat with my dad over cheese & wine. Came up to bed. Fed baby. And now… #Grief insomnia #WidowedYoung #TerminalCancer

Day 42 of #widowhood was busy. Tidying & sorting - trying to regain some semblance of control over the chaos in the house. Dealing with the callous incompetence of @DWPgovuk. Taking kids to bereavement support appointments at the hospice. Sobbing in the carpark (me, not them)…

@Dr_BellaR My husband is a driving instructor and he thought one of his new pupils was called Tia. Her provisional licence was in a completely different name. He asked if she preferred Tia. No she responded, that is short for Thank you In Advance!! He was v embarrassed. Oh how we laughed!

@kwersts Bloody computers!

Grr I have 45 minutes to do an important ‘must be done today’ thing and this 😬

@SteBel14 @WhistleblowingT Bringing joy to all, everywhere they go!

@ballater6 I still say it to my boys now!

Remember how my mum used to say you can’t eat that yet it’s not Xmas, as the cupboards were overladen with food, anyone else remember similar 🤪

@NatashaMrsSmith I worked in a small rural primary school in my NQT year in 1998. I still send and receive cards from the head, DH, my old TA and the other class teacher. One of my Christmas highlights is receiving their cards & hearing all of their news.

Every year I get a card from a headteacher I used to work for. He took me on when I was an NQT in 2008 and even though I left this school over 10 years ago he sends me a Christmas card. I don’t have his mobile number or social media. Never see him. Just one card each year. 🎅🌲

An apology needs to (a) include the word 'sorry' (b) not attempt to excuse poor behaviour as a 'joke' and (c) not blame other people for their reaction to it. This is not complicated.

@Mr_B_Morgan @WhistleblowingT I completely agree.

@WhistleblowingT This is a topic that winds me up! Staff give SO much more. "Good will" is relied upon and schools couldn't function without it. Yet, it's "unacceptable" to provide tea/coffee/milk to staff?! Oh, and when Ofsted or anyone else comes in, who pays for their tea etc? Let us have tea!

@Dragon99Gwlad @OneAboutSue @thescrog_ @WhistleblowingT You have to be very tight and mean spirited to begrudge having to pay more than TAs.

@OneAboutSue @thescrog_ @WhistleblowingT Personally, I drink 4 - 5 coffees per day, addicted to caffeine, I guess. But as some teachers earn twice what TAs earn, I think that’s fair.

@OneAboutSue @thescrog_ @WhistleblowingT No but they earn twice as much.

@thescrog_ @WhistleblowingT Do teachers drink twice as many cups of tea/coffee?

@jacasiegel Some bow saw blades.

Since no one knows what to get their dad for Christmas, please use this thread to share what you got your dad to give people ideas.