Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Now stfu. I'm going to bed.

[celtic]

What's the other meeting for?

Will you be dropping into Luton on the way home?

[Laxie]

BTW- They're not all bad. There is a smattering of good, fair, decent politicians dotted around.

But how do you know for sure which ones are the good ones?

Now stfu. I'm going to bed.

LMAOOOOO

Just said to Celtic on MSN I reckon you were only humouring us with replies while you had that cup of tea.  

[RED-DOG]

BTW- They're not all bad. There is a smattering of good, fair, decent politicians dotted around.

But how do you know for sure which ones are the good ones?

Now stfu. I'm going to bed.

LMAOOOOO

Just said to Celtic on MSN I reckon you were only humouring us with replies while you had that cup of tea.  

Yeah, I just said to the dog that you two are only posting on here to humour me.

[Laxie]

Not at all.  Genuine interest.  Plus yer answering us.  Makes the brains think of more questions.

Anyway...you started it.  That'll learn ya not to post new topics at 3am if yer hoping for sleep with no replies.

[RED-DOG]

What's the other meeting for?

Will you be dropping into Luton on the way home?

A: Forgot. Dropped into my lap at the last minute and can't be arsed to open my email again tonight.

B: No, will be travelling by train.

[celtic]

What's the other meeting for?

Will you be dropping into Luton on the way home?

A: Forgot. Dropped into my lap at the last minute and can't be arsed to open my email again tonight.

B: No, will be travelling by train.

ahh ok np. Glad you said no, woulda been tempted to come along.

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Bloody Hell. I'm sick of farting about around this weight now.

I've been sticking religiously to my routine though, so something's got to give sooner or later.

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What's the other meeting for?

Subject: Meeting to discuss Cross Departmental Ministerial Working Group on Gypsy and Traveller inequalities - 26 January 2011 at 1.30pm in Eland House



MWG Action Points

a. Encouraging engagement and community involvement

1. Identify and bring together effective practices in engaging
Gypsies & Travellers with schools, NHS providers, the Police etc and promote with Gypsy and Traveller communities to encourage greater engagement at local level

2. What part can Community Budgets play in respect of the Gypsy and Traveller Community?

b. Site Provision

3. Community-led Promotion of Private Site Provision

c. Health Issues

4. Partnership for Better Public Health

5. Proposals to embed best practice by GPs into NHS work in general

6. Explore what incentives could be put into contracts for GPs to encourage them to engage with Gypsies and Travellers

d. Education & Employment

7. ‘Nudge’ Behavioural Change Initiative to raise Educational Aspiration

8. Consider making Gypsy and Traveller children eligible for the Pupil Premium

9. Consider introducing modules/records of achievements which Gypsy and traveller children can take with them if they move to different schools

e. Barriers to services

10. Improving access to financial products and services

11. Improve understanding of the barriers for Gypsies and Travellers to engage with the benefits services

f. Criminal Justice System

12. Establish if Gypsies and Travellers are discriminated against by the Criminal Justice System

g. Discrimination and hate crime

13. Addressing the unlawful denial of access and services

14. Ensure the definition of hate crime is adequate to deal with offences against Gypsies and Travellers

[tikay]

Do you like cheese?

Which is your favourite?

About time someone else had to endure some of that bloody nonsense.

I'll make you both Facebook Friends of Crow & his Cousin, Reggie-Rat.

It's the blonde League tonight. What price Reggie-Rat turning up in the chat-box? "No offers" as the bookies say.

Reggie-Rat>>>>>>>>>>> Sits & watches.

[RED-DOG]

Do you like cheese?

Which is your favourite?

About time someone else had to endure some of that bloody nonsense.

I'll make you both Facebook Friends of Crow & his Cousin, Reggie-Rat.

It's the blonde League tonight. What price Reggie-Rat turning up in the chat-box? "No offers" as the bookies say.

Reggie-Rat>>>>>>>>>>> Sits & watches.

So more like Un-Reg'ed Rat then..... ?

[RED-DOG]

It'd raining cats and dogs here. I'm going to give it 5 mins, and then I'm going out for my constitutional regardless.

[RED-DOG]

Right. I've had my walk, my shower & my breakfast. Now I have about another hour's worth of "Paperwork" to do, and then I'm game for anything.

Well, anything that doesn't involve food, alcohol, drugs, gambling, or loose women.





Edit: Forget what I said about the women.

[Jon MW]

The more I think about it the less sense her teacher's instructions make.  How the hell is she to find out anything until their visitor arrives and properly educates them?!  Sure she'll get 'information' but doesn't mean it'll be correct.  And round and round we go with all sorts of misconceptions and rubbish.  Seems to me she's more likely being set up for a jumbo size ooops by the time the dust settles on this one.

Now that's a very insightful post.

Going to request a meeting with the teacher.  It's impossible for Sarah to gather a list of 'facts' without a genuine resource.  She really is taking the task serious and I'd hate to see her set up for very obvious failure on this one.

...

A lot depends on why the teacher is doing it - if it's just because

(i)   they have a guest speaker,
(ii)  they need to set some homework
(iii)  'obviously' just set the homework to be about what the guest speaker is there to talk about

then that wouldn't be so good.

But what she's doing could be based on a standard educational model:

(i)   Find out what pupils know and what misconceptions they have (i.e. the homework research)
(ii)  Address the misconceptions and add missing information (i.e. the lesson with the guest speaker)
(iii)  Find out what the pupils have learned  (i.e. a follow up homework project)

In a broad subject like maths then this cycle gets repeated, but it still could be used in isolation like this - so she might know what she's doing.

[Longines]

Subject: Meeting to discuss Cross Departmental Ministerial Working Group on Gypsy and Traveller inequalities - 26 January 2011 at 1.30pm in Eland House

Tom, if you're on expenses then this may be moot but if not....

Leicester - London return: £129 anytime, £73 offpeak, £55 super offpeak. The latter two are really restrictive on what time you can leave London.

Harborough - London return: £42 super offpeak Travelcard including tube, £45 offpeak Travelcard. Neither ticket has a restriction on when you can leave London.

Parking is cheaper at Harborough too.

If you still want to travel from Leicester, choose a train that stops at Harborough and buy two tickets at Leicester: a Leicester<>Harborough return and one of the Harborough<>London tickets. You can then get on any train coming home (as long as it stops at Harborough) - split ticketing ftw...