Poor Charlie was off to the farm today with school… ” will there be mud mum?” <eyes gleam>

“errr yes I should think so!:-)” and a bit of other stuff too no doubt! <clears washing machine for 4pm onslaught…>

I had my usual small “grrrr” at school this morning though – they do lots of good stuff about reuse/recycle, grow their own veggies etc, but today for the trip they asked for all lunches to be sent in in throwaway bags/containers – so I sent C’s in in a good old brown paper lunch bag ( Mr FF brings me back supplies from the US)

when he got to school the teacher took it & put it in a plastic carrier bag ARGH

yes I know it was easier for them to be able to hang them on their pegs, and to carry them, and it was raining…

but it’s another unnecessary bit of plastic being chucked in a bin today isn’t it… <sigh>

ooh the sun came out for a second there… hold that thought

Great idea – , no, fan*TASTIC* idea,

so why is it such a pain and why are so many mods so totally jobsworth -

we’ve had some bizarre exchanges – we’re in the grey area between several groups, and you’d think I’d tried to post in Newcastle (we’re kinda in the South of England..) the way I got treated by one Mod for posting in a group whose boundaries are literally 2 miles from us. DH posted today and didn’t meeet the exacting standards for subject headings (capitalization if you’re interested..) the mod’s email to him pointing this out was quite frankly unreadable – text speak, no punctuation, no caps (!!) mispelled…blah

WTH was that about then? how hard is it to *encourage* people rather than give them unreadable emails or abusive insults?

I’m sure there are loads of lovely FC mods around ( I know there are, I know some of them! you know who you are!!) but there’s a real example of what happens when you give someone a little bit of authority here…

and don’t get me started on the FC users who are trying to blag laptops & widescreen TVs… it’s not what it’s about guys….!

all that said I much prefer FCing things to Ebaying them… (well unless I find an extremely rare item worth millions in my attic of course, but the general stuff I’d rather give away)