EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER!

Friday, 25 June 2021

LIFE GOES ON!!

So, it's been a while since I last blogged!! In that time, I've had a mental health diagnosis, I've graduated, worked in the Social Care sector, been made redundant, my daughter is in university, my son just finished his year 11 with predicted grades of course coz COVID denied us all forms of normality, and my last born is 13! Where's the time gone? So COVID happened, and we've only just started to see and feel a glimmer of hope to the end of COVID in that the restrictions are slowly but surely being relaxed. But then!!WAIT!! The numbers of the Delta variant have started rising again!! Just when we thought we could "breath!"

In that time, I've lost friends and family too either to death or to falling out as I became more selective and assertive in my journey and realised that I was carrying a lot of unwanted baggage in the name of lots of friends who were there just for the good times but when the "ish hit the fan", they slowly but surely fell off my friend train and I was left with less than I can count on one hand....but again....quality over quantity! Hey? I've made some very very dear friends too, added lots of weight as I got a bit carried away by life's everyday expectations and requirements, I let my family and friends walk all over me, I put myself at the end of the list!! Boy did I get it wrong!

Then comes the soul searching and re-evaluation of my life as we speak....things have to change! I love life, I love laughter and I love love.....so I start with me!! I LOVE ME!! So, drastic measures but in bite size chunks. I go back to college to up my skills, my daughter introduces me to the CV/Resume generators (we certainly didn't have these in my hey days) which make me realise that I have been short selling myself, which explains a lot! I start riding my static bike and taking walks then graduate to a gym enrolment which I thoroughly enjoy as again, slowly but surely the confidence creeps in. So life seems to be on the up and up, positive mindsets reap positive results.

Taking it all one day at a time!!

Tima.X

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

When common sence just ain't common!!

What an eventful week!!

FACT FILE!!

! Did you know you had to pay a fee of almost £500 in order to access the small business Government grants and/loans?

!! In spite of several calls in regards to a letter sent home with a child, it takes upto three working days for a call to be returned in regards to a child being struck off the SEN and IEP registers??

!!! In spite of a child being clearly a boy/male or girl/female, the SENco administrators are at liberty to refer to a child as of the opposite sex? i.e. She for boy and he for girl child at their discretion???

!!!! As a full time student with young children funded by the Student Finance company, the job centre is under no obligation to support you in times of difficulties. Although you get the last payment in April, and the next is in October, you can not be eligible for jobseekers allowance unless you leave/quit your course to avail yourself for work.....then you are eligible for job seekers allowance, housing and council tax benefits????

!!!!! In spite of visitor's badges going missing in a school, and although every visitor should sign in and out respectively, the children's safety and well being in this school is not compromised in any way?????

What an unbelievably crazy world we live in!!