@lifeatthenest2.bsky.social
Used to be a teacher but now I’m taking a gap year for the rest of my life. Adoptee. Rugby Fan. Art Dabbler. Campervanner
One has to wonder if teachers should have any faith in a mark scheme that includes this grammatical abomination. If they got this wrong, what else….
They ain’t done good.
It just seems that Australia has a fabulous can do attitude.
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“Your captain for today is ….[another glance at clipboard] ahhh it’s Peter” The smile told us Peter was ok and we wouldn’t need the ejector seats. The whole flight was only 90 mins but we got free hot drinks and a bottle of water. £140 including 20kg checked bag. Quite the experience! It just
09.03.2025 07:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0… No one seemed more delighted and surprised to be on this flight than Barbara. She literally giggled at everything. Her initial announcement was (and you have to read this in an Aussie Kath and Kym accent)
“Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to this flight to….[glances at clipboard] Ohhhh it’s Cairns!..
…The best bit was Barbara [not her real name but she looked like a Barbara] she was our air hostess. Now I call her that because everything from the actual plane to Barbara herself harked back to a bygone era when one had to wear long white gloves and a pill box hat on BOAC …
09.03.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0After joking about flying on a Spitfire and chocks away to my friends online I discovered that my plane actually had propellers and chocks. There were, I think 36 seats and 22 were occupied. The flight lasted 90 mins and flew so low it took in spectacular views of the Great Barrier Reef but…
09.03.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The check in guy hand wrote our boarding passes and then appeared again in a number of guises. We had a chair massage whilst watching an aquarium of tropical fish. The security people looked like volunteers from the local U3A and everyone and I mean EVERYONE was so happy to be there….
09.03.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🧵currently nearing the end of my post retirement Aussie tour. Ex tropical cyclone Alfred meant that we had to delay and divert to a completely unknown airline from the tiniest airport near the WhitSundays to Cairns. Now we had no idea what to expect but the experience was a delight…
09.03.2025 07:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Best let my husband back into our hotel now I’ve fully understood what he asked me to order for him.
06.02.2025 11:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Indeed. They’ll never know the joys of t’ vitenery
28.01.2025 21:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Darrowby 305. My favourite series and books as a teenager and then reader, I married one but he has an extra T. Youngsters don’t know what I mean when I say, “Like the vet” 🙄
28.01.2025 21:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ah that’s great. Hard when they go though. Mind you they are back most of the time! I am and I intend to carry on. One life and all that jazz.
28.01.2025 21:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve started looking. It’s daunting starting again but too much hate over there. Genuinely sickening. Retirement great. Very hard at first. Boy doing very well. They’ve made him music lead. I go in and hear readers for him once a week. I’m off to Aus for a month next week! How are your lot?
28.01.2025 21:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@psalisbury.bsky.social I’m gradually moving over from the other place -it’s too scary. Who should I follow on here! Hope all good with you!
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