What a meal!
Last Saturday saw me rising at the unearthly hour of 6 - and bear in mind this is the morning we are talking about, in order to catch a train down to London to visit the Language show in Olympia. I went with Jill, one of our wonderful Teaching Assistants at school.
I think she has found me rather a new experience in teachers, apart from the fact that I teach her son, we have fun! Our DT work this term has been to make bread, so she asked us to make her some for the October Fest she was celebrating with her year 4 group. Of course, we obliged, but we also sent her an invoice. One with very small print at that.... then we crept along to watch her read it in the class room she works in. Bear in mind this woman is very shy, she has been asked to teach a class and then has a rumbustuous class and teacher spying on her through the glass door!
Much laughter later, the more aggressive children in my class pointed out that the bill had not been paid. So we sent the Bovver Boys in..... no response other than she woud look at the situation again. Huh! One week later we sent in a solicitor's letter - U.O.Me Unltd, Debtford etc etc. The response came in German, so I had to do some rough translating and explain the situation to my class. Oh, and one pound fell out of the envelope.
Now, would the business minded amongst you decide whether I should pursue the matter, or should I go for good relationships with this very local firm of Frau Mack's Caff?
However, this is all beside the point - she is a lovely person and the commercial 'front' is just that, an act. The language show was wonderful and we came back with lots of lovely stuff. (How many people in the real world, give up a week-end day, pay to go to London themselves and then buy the books too? Does that happen out there?) We came out of Olympia and couldn't make up our mind which way to turn and were heped by a lovely Londoner. Off we set,in the right direction, then he came back and asked if we were looking for somewhere good to eat. This was true!! So he directed us to the most wonderful Persian restaurant. It was so good, lunch took 3 hours to enjoy! Each course was so tasty - the hors d'ouevre were cheese and very special bread with herbs, and stuffed vine leaves. This was on the recommendation of a couple who were just leaving as we arrived. The main course was saffron rice and two different types of lamb stew. Then the pudding was an orgasmic sorbet - lemon and rose water with very fine egg noodles in it. Oh wow!
We were forced to walk back up Kensington High Street to the tube - three stations along because we were so full! Sadly this took us past a rug shop and I succumbed to a rug. (Breaking power and Kit Kats come to mind here....) Then off back to Shropshire. It was a great day and we didn't stop talking all the time.
Got home and set off for Leicester to go for the walk with the harem man on Sunday. That's another day's story and another question - do all fairs travel in the depths of night?
I think she has found me rather a new experience in teachers, apart from the fact that I teach her son, we have fun! Our DT work this term has been to make bread, so she asked us to make her some for the October Fest she was celebrating with her year 4 group. Of course, we obliged, but we also sent her an invoice. One with very small print at that.... then we crept along to watch her read it in the class room she works in. Bear in mind this woman is very shy, she has been asked to teach a class and then has a rumbustuous class and teacher spying on her through the glass door!
Much laughter later, the more aggressive children in my class pointed out that the bill had not been paid. So we sent the Bovver Boys in..... no response other than she woud look at the situation again. Huh! One week later we sent in a solicitor's letter - U.O.Me Unltd, Debtford etc etc. The response came in German, so I had to do some rough translating and explain the situation to my class. Oh, and one pound fell out of the envelope.
Now, would the business minded amongst you decide whether I should pursue the matter, or should I go for good relationships with this very local firm of Frau Mack's Caff?
However, this is all beside the point - she is a lovely person and the commercial 'front' is just that, an act. The language show was wonderful and we came back with lots of lovely stuff. (How many people in the real world, give up a week-end day, pay to go to London themselves and then buy the books too? Does that happen out there?) We came out of Olympia and couldn't make up our mind which way to turn and were heped by a lovely Londoner. Off we set,in the right direction, then he came back and asked if we were looking for somewhere good to eat. This was true!! So he directed us to the most wonderful Persian restaurant. It was so good, lunch took 3 hours to enjoy! Each course was so tasty - the hors d'ouevre were cheese and very special bread with herbs, and stuffed vine leaves. This was on the recommendation of a couple who were just leaving as we arrived. The main course was saffron rice and two different types of lamb stew. Then the pudding was an orgasmic sorbet - lemon and rose water with very fine egg noodles in it. Oh wow!
We were forced to walk back up Kensington High Street to the tube - three stations along because we were so full! Sadly this took us past a rug shop and I succumbed to a rug. (Breaking power and Kit Kats come to mind here....) Then off back to Shropshire. It was a great day and we didn't stop talking all the time.
Got home and set off for Leicester to go for the walk with the harem man on Sunday. That's another day's story and another question - do all fairs travel in the depths of night?
posted by Liz at 14:52
3 Comments:
Harem man???? Intrigued 'Lizbeth! Do you still have that stuffed parrot in the classroom?
If that came out as ANON, I wish to declare that it's me...
I have the stuffed parrot - and what's more its friends are coming back to roost chez moi... I think we'll have a parrot party - fancy dress of course!
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