about last night… and this morning
isn’t that a film, and a daytime tv show : )
Well lets deal with last night first, I managed to complete the bags in time, and finished they look like this,
and of course you can find them in my Etsy shop : )
But I did not sell one bag, nope not one, I think they were too expensive for the good ladies of Winchester, but nevermind, you live and learn, and I may adjust my prices accordingly for my next two, we shall see.
However the night was not a disaster, I had a couple of glasses of mulled wine, very nice, and I sold 11 corsages!! Oh yes, my hunch was right, and all day Tuesday sticthing and cutting was totally worthwhile : )
These are a couple of the ones that didn’t sell, and are also now listed on Etsy,
and,
So a good evening, and now I have to finish three half made bags, do a special commissioned bag, and make more corsages!
Ok, onto this morning : ) It was another meeting about the angel that is William! Well he is no angel at all at the moment, and we have having a hard time with him at home, as well as they are at school, so I had no problems with what they told me their plans are, it all seems fine to me.
However….
and you knew there would have to be one….
It now appears that members of the teaching staff at Williams school read my blog, Hello!!! The head teacher had a word with me about it this morning : P
Now I knew in the past that Edward told his LSA about it, and she reads it and even left the odd comment or two, which I really do appreciate, obviously the ones who have looked recently fall into the ‘lurker’ category, and well that is fine too : ) But, they have taken things I have written about school, Williams situation and my annoyance very personally, for which I’m sorry.
But, the way I’m looking at this is this, I’m already on the outside at school, I have had one ‘difficult’ child move to a special needs school, I now have another child being, to put it bluntly, ‘a pain in the arse’, and I don’t live in the village. I’m very much on the edge, a few mums talk to me, which I really appreciate, but on the whole I don’t have many people to talk to about my experience of the school other than you lot, sorry that sounds a bit off, but ‘you lot’ know what I mean!!
So I’m not going to stop talking about school, however, I will try to turn down my meanness, lol!!!!
Does that seem fair?
21st November 2007 @ 9:58 pm
perfectly! You are entitled to say what you want on your blog. And you aren’t mentioning any names so what’s the problem? Good luck with William.
21st November 2007 @ 10:00 pm
Oh poor you. That must be really difficult. The situation with your blog sounds hard…I’d find it a little like someone having read my diary…invasive. What a shame that people have been offended by it, when you obviously wouldn’t have intended that. But if people known to you lurk, rather than presenting themselves, then of course there is room for you to write about things in a way that you may have dampened down slightly had you known they were there (not because you think any other way, but because the way people write when they feel unselfconscious is very different to the way they would write when they feel they have certain people in their ‘audience’)…it seems like an unfair position to have put you in.
Your situation sounds really isolating…I think you’re doing a brilliant job at self-preservation in continuing to let your blog be a place where you talk openly about how you feel.
Your bags look great…and congratulations on selling so many corsages!
21st November 2007 @ 11:13 pm
Because what will REALLY help the situation is a bit more pressure, which (however inadvertently) they are putting on you. I am sure Alice, that you haven’t said anything on your blog, that you wouldn’t express to those concerned (although, as you say, you may have tried to phrase it a little more kindly).
And if I were a Mum in your playground, I would give you a big hug and take you home for tea.
22nd November 2007 @ 12:58 am
I think your corsages are super – I love the mottled ones! I’m so glad you had a good evening – if a blurry one with the 2 glasses of wine! Great little bags as well. I’m sure they’ll sell well on Etsy.
As for the meeting this morning etc I am pleased that their plans seem fine to you. I hope William responds well and that things will eventually turn out for the best.
You must be feeling really upset with all this bother going on especially after having to sort out your first ‘difficult’ child. No one really appreciates how hard it is on Mum and, as you don’t live in the village, you don’t even have the opportunity to chat to other mums and share their experiences of school and really get to hear the general chit chat.
I don’t think you have written ANYTHING offensive about anyone. No-one HAS to read your blog. It’s up to them if they choose to. If they can’t stand the heat then they should get out of the kitchen!!! I can understand your having a chat with your friends and family here and airing your thoughts and feelings.
Like Ali, if I were on the playground too, I would give you a big hug! Chin up! Don’t let them get you down.
22nd November 2007 @ 7:40 am
Chin up Alice!
as has been said – you have not mentioned any names and this is your blog after all. You are a caring mum who needs to share/let of steam sometimes
And that’s fine with us…. x
22nd November 2007 @ 12:22 pm
I agree with all of the above comments, it is your blog, you haven’t ‘named or shamed’ anyone, you are perfectly entitled to let off steam here (or anywhere else), and being a lurker is a bit like being a listener at doors – you sometimes don’t hear good about yourself. Perhaps the school are being a tad defensive as they are aware they are perhaps not doing all they could to help (obviously, that is just my view!) Chin up, and, as my father always said, ‘don’t let the b*ggers grind you down.’
22nd November 2007 @ 3:57 pm
I’m with all of the above too. Your blog is a place to get things off your chest and not in a guarded who-might-be reading kind of a way. Those of us who’ve known and loved you for a while would rather that you freely let off steam as and when you need to (like we all do). Us lot are like the ‘mum’s in the playground crowd’ and we’re always here to listen and contribute our halfpenneth so don’t you dare stop your honest and from the hear writing. Good luck with things x
22nd November 2007 @ 5:16 pm
You need an outlet, should be permitted to express yourself, and your opinions are what they are. So don’t edit the honesty — just, I suppose, don’t put anything on the blog that you aren’t willing to say to them in person.
22nd November 2007 @ 8:57 pm
for goodness sake – it’s not like you’ve ever named the school or the teachers. and you have every right to talk about your life.
30th December 2007 @ 1:56 pm
I’m sort of a lurker as have been admiring your craft work on this blog and have not commmented yet.
Seems a bit silly of the teachers to mention that they were lurking, makes one wonder what they hope to achieve. I made my blog passworded to restrict who read it, but it is a bit of a shame because I’d rather not be so cloistered.
Perhaps you could password the blog posts about school though? Then the teachers wouldn’t have to be getting shirty. By the way, we have avoided the whole issue of narky teachers by home educating our kids: it was a huge relief for us and I can whole heartedly recommend it, we even have a ‘special needs’ child who basically stopped being quite so special needs once out of the school environment.
Anyway. Am delurked now 😉