Dear Len

What Guns??? all I can see is the top off a tin of Grecian 2000  

Hi Ken

Not enough hair to use that product in fact I would be better of with a paint brush and a can of blackboard paint.

Come on Len what did you make the guns out of????

Paul

Hello Len

Thanks for solving our collective curiosity……but what is the light house made out of and does the light really work?  

With regard to the gallery photo I’m not shy I just prefer to be cautious.

Paul

Don’t be daft. As a teacher, we still have blackboards, although most have been replaced with interactive whiteboards. I never knew anybody call them chalkboards……politically correct people or otherwise.

Vinnie

True Vinnie – and as you say a lot of schools/colleges moved over to the white boards (have one myself in the workroom) but some now regret the change over, as the pens were forever running dry and so much dearer than the old chalk – and you can’t throw the pens at the kids ! – (bet you’ve chucked a few end pieces of chalk !) for fear of injuring them and being sued ! – bring back the good? old days when a spade was a spade and not an earth removal tool !

Next time your out and about have a look for blackboard paint – B&Q used to sell it, small yellow tin with a picture of a blackboard on it, but think its now just matt black paint…

OK – change that, just done a web search and some firms ARE making a blackboard paint.  Found 4 selling it – 2 calling it chalk board paint and 2 call it just matt black – Dulux don’t list it either. B&Qs site is down.

Ken

Didn’t know you were a teacher Vinnie – teach anything interesting ?

Hi Vinnie

Now I understand why they call you teacher……I thought it related to your love of a certain whisky.

Teaching particle acceleration and the theory of nuclear fission to kids in Toxteth???? very brave but surely by its very nature it must bend (or break) most of the terrorism laws.

Still you must have enjoyed all the holidays and short working days.

Paul

Oh Vinnie you will have us crying.

We have all been outside a school at home time and witnessed the scrum as the teachers trample the kids to get out first. After all starting at 9 and finishing at 3.30 is a very long day and not to mention those long coffee and lunch breaks.

How many weeks paid holiday

Still, on the bright side you have now managed to find a job that involves even less work.

Paul (retired and chilled)

A little bit of liquid nitrogen would do the trick (or a decent bottle of Merlot)

Respect to the Teachers its a job that I could not do without killing most of the little darlings..give me 500 guys on a building site any day.

Glug, Glug (Australian wine is fantastic)

Paul (very chilled and still not having to earn a crust)

A school called Shorefields, on the edge of the Dingle.

Vinnie

Yep, it certainly was.  It was Ringo’s old school, he actually paid the school as visit during the Capital of Culture build up earlier this year.  The rumour was that we had an old desk with his name scratched in somewhere, but we never found it.  I think one of the old headteachers put it on Ebay!

Ask her if she recognizes this pic, and see if she remembers names of any old teachers?  What was her year?  I have some very old class pictures from the early 70’s.

Vinnie

Hi Len

Nice work on the lighthouse it looks very effective, is it moored in position or do you let it drift about and be a hazard to shipping?

Perhaps an explanation regarding the off course chat about school, I started by ribbing good old Vinnie about being a former teacher little realising where he had worked, being a southerner you might not know that Toxteth is one of the toughest areas of Liverpool so teaching there takes some nerve. But sometimes running these sites and dealing with us he must think that he has jumped out of the pan and into the fire.

Still at least the hours are better…..eh Vinnie?

Paul