Hi Nicolette

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  Nicolette

  Dec 29, 2007 7:01PM

  Hi Caroline. Sorry to hear Bronwyn is not very well. These bugs tend to pass quite quickly and as long as she is taking milk she'll be fine. If you have any concerns, make sure you speak to a doctor and insist on her being seen if you have to use the out of hours service. Bon was ill one winter and he ended up in hospital because no one took me seriously.
  
  Bon and I are OK, I have a few problems connected mostly to my previous pregnancy and an ongoing issue thing that caused me some worry over Xmas but it won't affect the baby in any way so that is fine. Hubby is away at Everton today so it is just me and Bon for the day, hence a trip to splurge at FatFace. Actually I bought a top on Thursday that they left the security tag on so I had to go back. If it was a ploy to get me back in there and spend more then it worked beautifully!
  
  Just watching Robin Hood on BBC and it is painful to my Historian sensibilities. I studied Medieval History and I do have trouble watching something like this as just a story and not a piece of supposed historical fact. I find myself screaming "No!" at the top of my voice at some particularly inaccurate scene.
  
  Have fun with the bath, speak to you later.
  
  N. xx

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  Caroline

  Dec 29, 2007 7:17PM

  Bronwyn is fine Nicolette, she was only sick once and had a few runny nappies but was generally her usual chirpy self She had a few moments where she was grizzley and she slept a lot.
  Bronwyn has had her bath and is now in bed. She was shattered so (theoretically) it shouldn't take long for her to drop off!! Hmmmm. I can hear voices, over the intercom that is! She is jabbering away to herself!!!
  
  I teach History!! God knows how as I dropped it at GCSE in favour of Geography!!!

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  Nicolette

  Dec 29, 2007 7:49PM

  Hi - I didn't take GCSE History either, but did take A-Level and have a degree! I hate modern history and the GCSE was all WW1 and WW2 which leaves me cold as a subject. I refused to do anything beyond around 1399 and really stopped at the end of the reign of Edward II. I specialised in the Norman Conquest and the era of King John to Edward I including Welsh and Scottish History with the emphasis on the Welsh as I was at a Welsh uni.
  
  What do you teach these days in schools? Do you still get to cover a wide range of eras? Is there an official line to follow or are you allowed to deviate?

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  Caroline

  Dec 29, 2007 8:07PM

  We do from the medieval times onwards. I'm actually quite ashamed to say thatI have absolutely no idea what I teach! My min has gone blank!!!!!! Oh,The battle of hastings, castles, WW2. I am given a schedule but I never stick to it!!! I like doing WW2 and watch Schindlers list with my year 9 kids.

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  Nicolette

  Dec 29, 2007 8:15PM

  History is the only subject I would want to teach but I think I'd feel too limited to what I could teach. The official lines on stuff like the Battle of Hastings and what the academics believe are very different. And I was so annoyed that big chunks were left out at both levels. I really wanted to learn about the Wars of the Roses and no one I came across specialised in that period.
  
  My mum was a teacher so I appreciate the challenges. Is it a nice school you are at? How big?

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  Nicolette

  Dec 29, 2007 8:20PM

  Having two conversations going is too much for my pregnancy brain to cope with!
  
  Do you miss the movements in your tummy? I felt really strange about that with my first, I missed feeling the baby in there even though he was with me. I'd miss the feelings when I was lying down at night when he was at his most obvious. That contact that exists only between and mother and a baby, that no one else can experience, was so special and I was sad that it was gone.

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  Caroline

  Dec 29, 2007 8:27PM

  The history I teach is pretty basic. I do 1 unit of geography, history and then RE and start rotating again! I am a trained Geographer so God knows how I ended up teaching all 3! And I am responsible for all 3 subjects at KS3 (years 7-9). My school is only about 360 kids so its nice and friendly.
  
  It took me about 6 weeks after the birth to stop putting my hands on my bump. I was still expecting to feel movements. I could actually feel something moving, well it felt like I could, and I assume that it was my insides contracting back to something that resembled their pre-pregnancy state! I loved feeling the baby move and my pupils were fascinated too! They could see movements.
  I am still broody and would love to be pregnant again! Just can't afford it just yet!

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  rileysmum

  Dec 29, 2007 10:48PM

  Sorry to gate crash,i to loved that feeling at night when i lay awake rubbing my bump and riley would kick.I would love to have that again(hubby says no tho)

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