OT Border Control State of Emergency

[frogmiller]

Thanks for the very kind words frog, very much appreciated. It was a rough start but many have lots worse and I've had a good share of lucky breaks since.

Wow, that's some good trawling there! Yes, to qualify, and without wishing to open the debates again, I was/am behind intervention in Ukraine, but the pacifist in me warring with the realist hates the arms trade as an instinct and oppose most. Re British history, there are parts of our history, namely the colonial part, of which I am not proud but I'm sure a deeper trawl would find me also saying that we have every reason to be proud of many other parts, not least our involvement in the great wars to play a big role in defeating fascism.

Yep, would love to meet and chat with posters as sure we'd get on much better than it seems on politics posts. My racist best mate (he now is quite happy to call himself that after many years of denial, and I love his honesty) are worlds apart politically but we were born in the same street, 3 days apart and share similar childhoods that keep us connected. Never a day goes by when I don't get at least a handful of his social media harvested far right memes, but we have a bloody good laugh when we get together for a pint! I'm sure most of us would on here.

He won't dance to ABBA though. Miserable ****.

No trawling, the things stuck in my head for some daft reason.

[ragingpup]

No trawling, the things stuck in my head for some daft reason.

THat's bloody impressive. I struggle to remember things said yesterday!

[frogmiller]

THat's bloody impressive. I struggle to remember things said yesterday!

To be honest I find it much more difficult to remember when I am tired because of the stroke I had. But like you I now don't let it determine the person that I am. I am still learning how to write in English and french again using a pen. It is a bit wierd because I can write using a keyboard in English but not every day with a pen.

[ragingpup]

To be honest I find it much more difficult to remember when I am tired because of the stroke I had. But like you I now don't let it determine the person that I am. I am still learning how to write in English and french again using a pen. It is a bit wierd because I can write using a keyboard in English but not every day with a pen.

Well, despite the stroke, your memory may struggle at times, but it still is very impressive at remembering detailis from quite a while ago. Interesting that you are struggling more with pen than keyboard. A lot of adults that have swicthed to keyboard for comms will notice how much their writing habit has deteriorated through lack of practice and repition. It happens much more than we realise, a huge change in comms culture.Good schools are aware of this in keeping kids handwriting across the board as all GCSE and A Levels are hand written, but some FE colleges like mine run vocational courses where tutors only take digital assessments. As a result many of our 16 and 17 year olds who have to retake their English GCSEs quickly fall out of practice between their September start and the time they resit their exam in June the following year. This has proved a real problem to us, we have to find ways to keep them handwriting, otherwise they spend much of their exam fumbling with pens and quickly aching at the wrist.