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Message 19956 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 6:21:45 UTC - in response to Message 19891.  

You'd be about right, The RSPB is getting a bit concerned......

If it's a problem, slaughter them like the grey squirrel here. --------> http://www.saveoursquirrels.org/pge/conservation/grey_control.html
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Message 19966 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 7:39:58 UTC

Good Morning guys! ;-)

What a lovely day.. !
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Message 19968 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 7:43:41 UTC

Good morning Moon (and Dune)

Another smashing day here, and a good one to go weekly shopping?
Go away, I was asleep


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Message 19971 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 8:02:37 UTC - in response to Message 19968.  

Good morning Moon (and Dune)

Another smashing day here, and a good one to go weekly shopping?


Every day is a good day to go weekly shopping! LoL
Just do it! ;-D

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Message 19975 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 8:35:17 UTC

We w, and on the way out!
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Message 19978 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 8:48:53 UTC

Ww HI John! :D



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Message 19993 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 11:17:29 UTC

W w - Hello Al. Just got back, but getting ready to go out again.
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Message 19995 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 12:00:31 UTC

Good Morning everbody.
Still early here, 8:00am,too early to go shopping yet.
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Message 20008 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 14:58:01 UTC

Hi peeps, lovely day and I'm stuck in the staff room marking Key Skills portfolios.... ;-(
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Message 20009 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 15:23:29 UTC - in response to Message 19971.  

Good morning Moon (and Dune)

Another smashing day here, and a good one to go weekly shopping?


Every day is a good day to go weekly shopping! LoL
Just do it! ;-D

This is a fact.
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Message 20010 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 15:24:54 UTC - in response to Message 20008.  
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Hi peeps, lovely day and I'm stuck in the staff room marking Key Skills portfolios.... ;-(

Sounds ghastly. I had to come home earlier than usual because my son locked himself out.

I've had a busy day playing with microwave detectors and the heart and lungs of a dead sheep. A dead baby sheep apparently, and definitely not a smoker.
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Message 20031 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 17:05:33 UTC - in response to Message 20010.  

I've had a busy day playing with microwave detectors

Aha you found one at last did you! Does it pick up the kids cellphones?
I've got a 50Kw magnetron in the shed if you want to wander around the playing fields..

and the heart and lungs of a dead sheep. A dead baby sheep apparently, and definitely not a smoker.

Mmm, can you make haggis with that I wonder.
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Message 20084 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 22:07:06 UTC

and the heart and lungs of a dead sheep. A dead baby sheep apparently, and definitely not a smoker.


I think practical biology should be banned in schools......
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Message 20097 - Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 23:12:10 UTC - in response to Message 20084.  
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and the heart and lungs of a dead sheep. A dead baby sheep apparently, and definitely not a smoker.


I think practical biology should be banned in schools......


I would very much like to be agree with you in this.. ;-)) but
its obvious that some people have to learn about it... :p Its really bad
when they have to write in the mw-go-along-book that you shall not
dry your puddle in it.. :p Who ever thought that the human race mostly are
clever enough to think that out all by themselves??

hehehe.. what a world.
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Message 20101 - Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 0:14:31 UTC
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Chris

Are you saying that dissection of the kids, by the kids, should be banned in practical biology?
Go away, I was asleep


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Message 20112 - Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 2:42:22 UTC - in response to Message 19825.  

Chris, That looks like a greater White Front.



What you do today you will have to live with tonight
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Message 20129 - Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 6:34:16 UTC - in response to Message 20084.  

and the heart and lungs of a dead sheep. A dead baby sheep apparently, and definitely not a smoker.


I think practical biology should be banned in schools......

It's one of the reasons that I never studied biology when I was at school. Now I have to teach it.

I did have some guilt over the poor little lamb, but then most of the kids will sit down to a nice lamb dinner or stuff their faces with chicken quite happily. They got far more benefit looking at the chambers of the heart than eating KFC...and the sheep was reared in much better conditions.

It gave their life so they could learn and I made sure to insist to them to make it's sacrifice mean something.

Personally I think anyone who eats battery farmed meat should be ashamed of themselves. There is suffering that people turn a blind eye to everyday.
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Message 20200 - Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 15:49:12 UTC
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I think practical biology should be banned in schools......


Ok folks, you deserve a response. I really do think it is un-necessary to teach practical biology in schools to the pre 16 age group. A significant proportion of young children find it extremely distasteful to have to cut up dead animals in the classroom.

By all means teach them the bones of the human skeleton, the major organs, and the blood circulation, all good stuff, but it doesn't need to go any further. There was a very distressing case a few years ago, where the school pet rabbit died, and 13 year old girls were in tears when they had to dissect it in biology class.

Clearly Esme is more of a compassionate teacher, who can approach this difficult subject with rather more professionalism. But nevertheless, I am not happy about it, and I wish it didn't happen.
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Message 20207 - Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 16:27:56 UTC - in response to Message 20200.  



Ok folks, you deserve a response. I really do think it is un-necessary to teach practical biology in schools to the pre 16 age group. A significant proportion of young children find it extremely distasteful to have to cut up dead animals in the classroom.

LOL I think you would have been rather surprised by the reactions of my class then :D They stole my rubber gloves so they could poke it. Then there were demands for me to squeeze the lungs so more blood would run out.

By all means teach them the bones of the human skeleton, the major organs, and the blood circulation, all good stuff, but it doesn't need to go any further. There was a very distressing case a few years ago, where the school pet rabbit died, and 13 year old girls were in tears when they had to dissect it in biology class.

I doubt that tale is even true...and if it is, it is not something I would ever expect to see. Sounds like the actions of a sadist.

Clearly Esme is more of a compassionate teacher, who can approach this difficult subject with rather more professionalism. But nevertheless, I am not happy about it, and I wish it didn't happen.

So you are a vegetarian then?
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Message 20211 - Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 17:03:15 UTC - in response to Message 20207.  
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I doubt that tale is even true...and if it is, it is not something I would ever expect to see. Sounds like the actions of a sadist.


Sadly it was true, I'll try and find the link.

LOL I think you would have been rather surprised by the reactions of my class then :D They stole my rubber gloves so they could poke it. Then there were demands for me to squeeze the lungs so more blood would run out.


Knowing where you "choose" to live and teach, I am not particularly surprised....

So you are a vegetarian then?


My personal eating habits ghave nothing whatsoever to do with what is taught in a class room, as indeed you very well know. And you called me provocative?

For anyones information, I will not eat veal, nor pate fois gras as I know how they are produced. Nor will I eat anything produced by Bernard Matthews as a matter of principle. I buy free range eggs whenever possible.
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