Do a new thing for spring, 2022 edition
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Mar 2022
9:53am, 3 Mar 2022
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
That's fabulous HappyG(rrr) ! A well deserved winner 
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Mar 2022
10:19am, 3 Mar 2022
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HappyG(rrr)
Oh, thanks guys, didn't realise there was an award! I have always read and been amazed by some of the things that you guys have embarked on as NewThings - and it's just so Fetch that Spring celebrates doing new things, rather than giving stuff up. A veritable font of positivity. I actually started thinking about volunteering a year or two ago, again reading how lots of Fetchies do such great things for their communities. And again, when I mentioned it in blogs got loads of encouragement, which again, pushed me to send in the application. A couple of months of selection, screening and training and I am now two sessions in to tutoring. My pupil is doing National 5 (Scotland equivalent of O Levels - are they still called that?!) and I'm helping initially with Maths, but have also been asked to help with English. I'm more comfortable with the Maths, but even that was a bit of a shock to the system when last night she asked for a topic that I hadn't "swotted up" before. Quadratic equations and the parabola. Eek! Anyhoo, so now I should choose someone else's NewT and just call out their name and why? Is that right? G
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Mar 2022
10:28am, 3 Mar 2022
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HappyG(rrr)
Am I allowed to nominate now? I'm sure others will choose hp's outdoor adventures, WA's new job, GM's motor home travels etc. But I would love to hear more about Linds's striking for her own organisation. I have joined a union (Unite) for the first time (it's not a NewT - I did it last year!) ever. Always been a Labour supporter (actually, probably labour with a small l - workers, society, though I've voted Green, Lib Dem, SNP and whoever seems to be helping those who need it most at any given time!) but was never a member of a union. So I thought I'd bite the bullet and join. Never been on a strike though. So Linds for fighting for and supporting her colleagues and her organisation to do and be better (presumably!) and... please can we hear more? G
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Mar 2022
10:54am, 3 Mar 2022
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LindsD
Aw. Thank you. My union is striking across 68 universities in protest at four things: 1. Workload - this is my focus 2. Casualisation - it's not unusual for people to still be on temporary contracts after ten or more years in the sector 3. Gender and ethnicity pay gaps - speaks for itself 4. Pay - whilst I'm paid well, a lot of my colleagues are not We undertook 5 days of strike action over the past two weeks, and are now participating in Action Short of a Strike, which is working to contract, and almost impossible for me. I actually came in to post a slightly woolly newt, which is I'm not putting any pressure on myself to catch up after the strike, when previously I would have done so. |
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Mar 2022
10:55am, 3 Mar 2022
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LindsD
This was the last day so the smallest picket and we have five sites, so five picket lines. I look like someone's kid they brought along. |
Mar 2022
11:05am, 3 Mar 2022
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Angus Clydesdale
I like this. How did I miss it previous years? I love the positivity of the whole New Thing Thing. I can't abide the drudgery of Giving Stuff Up, and it never really works anyway. When I stopped smoking, all those years ago I was advised to look at it as a positive life-affirming/enhancing move. Hence I didn't "give up" smoking, with the inference that it was something good I wasn't allowing myself to do, I stopped smoking, because I didn't want to do it any more (for many reasons). I don't know if it really was the attitude that worked, but it's a fact that the year I stopped smoking was the year I succeeded (2007, since you ask). Unlike the dozen or more previous times when I failed to give up smoking for more than a few weeks at a time. Sorry, hijacked your thread with a blog post!! I'm away to think of a newt. Hopefully be back in a bit. |
Mar 2022
11:37am, 3 Mar 2022
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BaronessBL
Well done HappyG and Linds for your newts. Not sure what mine will be for today but I'll try to find something before the end of the day.
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Mar 2022
12:15pm, 3 Mar 2022
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GimmeMedals
Worthy winners both. Well done 👏 My Newts today - Our first time walking round Moreton-in-Marsh and finding out some of the history of this centuries old Cotswold town with its distinctive sandstone buildings Buying some local varieties of cheese that I’ve never heard of, let alone tasted, before. The Ashcombe has a layer of ash across its centre! Buying a copy of Private Eye for the first time ever |
Mar 2022
12:19pm, 3 Mar 2022
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Raemond
Yay for return of the Newt thread!
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Mar 2022
12:24pm, 3 Mar 2022
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Well Done Linds! We drove past a picket line just now, I applauded the group from the passenger seat, not sure if they saw me, applauded you and your efforts at the same time
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