Driving home tonight from work I noticed a sign on a fence surrounding a building site. There was a whole heap of different signs but one in particular caught my eye.
It said:
"ANYONE URINATING ON THIS SITE WILL BE DISMISSED IMMEDIATELY"
Fair enough.
I mean not wearing safety clothes, not having a licence to operate a crane, that's bad.
But taking a leak on the site - now that's a sackable offence.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Little man's big night
Well the little guy is off to sleep tonight, the night before his first day in school.
His uniform is all laid out on a chair in his bedroom and to my surprise there was no "I'M NOT WEARING THAT!" when he saw it. Cool as a cucumber he looked at it and said "Oooh!" in a kind of "that's pretty cool" kind of way. Amazing.
I took down his little shirt and ironed it for him. I mean no self-respecting 5 year old goes to school with a creased new shirt now do they?
Not sure how often I'll be doing that though since little boys are not known for their natty dress sense when it comes to going to school. Everything is usually stuffed into a bag, or thrown in a heap on the floor so that might be more the norm.
Anyway, as Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman would say (don't ask how I know this, he's sleeping now.
Looking forward to hearing all about the first day of school tomorrow. Should be hilarious.
His uniform is all laid out on a chair in his bedroom and to my surprise there was no "I'M NOT WEARING THAT!" when he saw it. Cool as a cucumber he looked at it and said "Oooh!" in a kind of "that's pretty cool" kind of way. Amazing.
I took down his little shirt and ironed it for him. I mean no self-respecting 5 year old goes to school with a creased new shirt now do they?
Not sure how often I'll be doing that though since little boys are not known for their natty dress sense when it comes to going to school. Everything is usually stuffed into a bag, or thrown in a heap on the floor so that might be more the norm.
Anyway, as Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman would say (don't ask how I know this, he's sleeping now.
Looking forward to hearing all about the first day of school tomorrow. Should be hilarious.
Monday, August 27, 2007
A big day this week
My son starts school this week. It's exciting and scary at the same time.
At home we're trying not to make too much of a fuss about it for fear of making him anxious. So we've not really mentioned it too much.
My wife thinks he's excited at this stage but I daren't ask him directly if this is true.
A couple of weeks back we took him to Dun Laoghaire to buy his uniform. It's always been my understanding that young children starting school wear a uniform but speaking with colleagues from other countries it seems that this is not the case everywhere else in Europe.
Then on Saturday I took him to Dundrum to buy his first proper pair of school shoes. I'm not sure how well I did since the pair he picked out have hidden compartments in which a toy car can be concealed.
He confirmed shortly after that when he met his future new teacher a few months back she told all the boys that they can't bring any toys to school.
So I guess he'll be wearing a new pair of black leather shoes with 2 empty compartments. So too will just about all the other boys I'd guess.
Tonight we'll be trying to work out how long it will take to drive to the school on day 1. We don't want to be the parents of the only boy who was late on day 1.
At home we're trying not to make too much of a fuss about it for fear of making him anxious. So we've not really mentioned it too much.
My wife thinks he's excited at this stage but I daren't ask him directly if this is true.
A couple of weeks back we took him to Dun Laoghaire to buy his uniform. It's always been my understanding that young children starting school wear a uniform but speaking with colleagues from other countries it seems that this is not the case everywhere else in Europe.
Then on Saturday I took him to Dundrum to buy his first proper pair of school shoes. I'm not sure how well I did since the pair he picked out have hidden compartments in which a toy car can be concealed.
He confirmed shortly after that when he met his future new teacher a few months back she told all the boys that they can't bring any toys to school.
So I guess he'll be wearing a new pair of black leather shoes with 2 empty compartments. So too will just about all the other boys I'd guess.
Tonight we'll be trying to work out how long it will take to drive to the school on day 1. We don't want to be the parents of the only boy who was late on day 1.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
It's been a while
Sheesh. It's been weeks since I wrote anything on this blog.
I've been busy with other stuff going on that I can't get into here but suffice it to say it's difficult keeping multiple things going on at the same time.
Anyhow thank goodness it has now stopped raining in Ireland. There's this old song called "holes in the floor of heaven". Country music ok.
The gist of it is that there is this little child/young girl/middle aged guy (one per verse) and they are crying about some life-destroying event (country music.. use your imagination). To try and rationalise why this is happening to them and why they are crying profusely someone points out that even though it's raining it's not really raining.
Rather it's because there's holes in the floor of heaven and Granny/mother/wife is crying upstairs and their tears are falling down through the holes and it's appearing down here as rain.
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
anyway.
It felt more like whoever is in heaven had forgotten to turn off the taps in the bath the way things have been going lately. Madra agus cata how are you.
Now the rain has stopped. The sun shines every now and then for 10 minutes. The ice cream guy pulls a handbrake turn outside the house and it's a bit more like summer.
Now to find my qualitative research methods textbook for tonight. Oh joy.
Until the next time.
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