Author Topic: The Good News Thread  (Read 1099212 times)

Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6825 on: 22 June, 2019, 02:55:32 pm »
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Congrats from here as well!
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ElyDave

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6826 on: 22 June, 2019, 03:06:27 pm »
and here!  :thumbsup:
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6827 on: 22 June, 2019, 03:40:28 pm »
Yeah, time for a beard trim in Southend!
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6828 on: 02 September, 2019, 12:47:07 pm »
Blimey, this thread took some finding.  Has there been no good news since June?

Anyway, I found 140 Euros in the back of my desk drawer this morning.  It would have been just over two years ago that I bought them, so not a bad investment.
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Beardy

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6829 on: 02 September, 2019, 01:20:18 pm »
I’ve just received a (genuine) communication from the inland revenue saying that they owe me money. Quite a lot of money in fact. I just knew that if I didn’t work for a while it would pay off  :)
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CommuteTooFar

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6830 on: 05 September, 2019, 02:04:52 pm »
I just said that in GN/BN thread

Beardy

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6831 on: 05 September, 2019, 03:05:32 pm »
I just said that in GN/BN thread
I’m not going to gloat about how much my refund is, because that would be ungentlemanly.  O:-)
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bludger

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6832 on: 18 September, 2019, 12:41:34 pm »
I have just been offered an interview for a role with a high profile cycling brand, which will amount to a return to the professional workplace after reading my MSc this year. Wish me luck YACF...!
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6833 on: 18 September, 2019, 01:36:14 pm »
Fingers crossed bonne chance.
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fuzzy

Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6834 on: 20 September, 2019, 12:13:08 am »
Luck bludger!

Beardy

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6835 on: 20 September, 2019, 09:20:40 am »
The council have agreed to cancel my parking fine.

I had parked my car in a town car park and half way through my shopping experience1 I realised I’d not paid for my parking so did so on the ringGo app right there and then. As it happens, the parking attendant must have been looking at my car at just that moment, but I completed my transaction 2 minutes before s/he printed the ticket. I had genuinely had a senior moment in walking off without paying and it’s a pure coincidence that I bought the ticket when I did.

Minor good news, but everything’s a win.
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6836 on: 01 October, 2019, 04:27:18 pm »
I just passed an eye test.  Again.

Makes up for the £££ barakta has to spend on glasses...

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6837 on: 05 October, 2019, 06:14:04 pm »
This morning I took my son to a 6th-form college open day. The good news, beyond the fact that he liked the courses and the college (a lot more than the one we saw last week – only four more to go!) is that he said if he goes there, he'd cycle. I think it was the bus ride in that prompted him.  :thumbsup: 40 mins bus ride on a Saturday morning – cycle.travel plots a reasonably quiet route which it estimates at 25 minutes. Regardless of traffic!
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bludger

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6838 on: 05 November, 2019, 02:45:03 pm »
I have a new job!

And it's in bikes!

;D
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6839 on: 05 November, 2019, 03:03:12 pm »
You've moved from Deliveroo to Uber Eats? You're Official Polisher of Rogerzilla's tracknuts?
(Congratulations whatever it is!)
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bludger

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6840 on: 07 November, 2019, 10:33:53 am »
Ah I'd actually moved from deliveroo to stuart a while ago. However now I've got a 'proper' job, but it's involved in cycling and I'm pretty chuffed. Thanks!

I think I'll keep the Stuart up though, easy way to get beer money.
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bludger

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6841 on: 28 November, 2019, 11:58:37 pm »
In other good news, some daft fools have gone and awarded me an MSc with the mark of 'merit'. Plonkers!

;D
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hellymedic

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6842 on: 29 November, 2019, 12:54:16 am »
Congratulations!

ElyDave

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6843 on: 29 November, 2019, 07:12:07 am »
Well done, on both counts
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6844 on: 29 November, 2019, 07:49:26 am »
congratulations, have a gold star of merit
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6845 on: 29 November, 2019, 10:51:44 am »
Congrats and nice to have a good return for all the hard work.
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6846 on: 29 November, 2019, 10:35:02 pm »
Congratulations bludger, that's great news (twice, though late to the party here).

Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6847 on: 30 November, 2019, 07:19:32 pm »
Congratulations

Wowbagger

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6848 on: 28 December, 2019, 02:44:13 pm »
This evening I shall be entertaining three ladies. This in itself is good news, but when one considers that all three are former pupils and two of them were in my class in 1981, when they were about 9, that makes me especially pleased. I can't have done everything wrong.

Edit: of course, they could be planning to murder me...
The loss of humanity I could live with.

Wowbagger

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6849 on: 29 December, 2019, 10:25:35 pm »
This evening I shall be entertaining three ladies. This in itself is good news, but when one considers that all three are former pupils and two of them were in my class in 1981, when they were about 9, that makes me especially pleased. I can't have done everything wrong.

Edit: of course, they could be planning to murder me...



We had a wonderful evening! From left to right, Juliet, Katherine, some old geezer, Lynnette.

I am amazed, to be honest, that they remember me so fondly. They were the first class to be subject to my tender mercies in junior teaching, after 6 years in a very rough boys' secondary modern. For me, it was a very steep learning curve with help from the Dep. Head (whom I must phone tomorrow - he's 85 and lives in rural Wales) but almost no-one else. I reckon I made more mistakes teaching that class than any since.

Katherine and Juliet still live locally, Lynnette lives in Normandy. Juliet was never in my class, but I remember her because, around the age of 10, she joined the school from Spain and couldn't speak any English, so was very noticeable and needed quite a bit of guidance whether in a classroom or the playground. She told me last night that she had very fond memories of Mrs. Furby, the woman in charge of remedial teaching (as it was called in those days, "Special Needs" not yet being a thing) and after she left she used to go and visit her at her house until one day Mr. Furby answered the door with the news that his wife had been taken ill and, within 3 weeks, had died from ovarian cancer. I don't think she reached pensionable age.
The loss of humanity I could live with.