Come To Suffolk . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . as soon as the lockdown restrictions are over!

We've got lovely scenery, good beaches, loads of history, plenty of culture, fantastic beers, (some) very nice people . . .

. . . and also a perfect sense of logic ;-)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-52412655

[marval]

That really made me laugh Buenchico, at least the library is clean.

[Buenchico]

An alternative way of doing things ;-)

[gness]

Oh that's given me a huge laugh, Chris...thank you!

Bit like all the saucers of food I left on the classroom window sill as a mould growth experiment over the Easter holidays. The caretaker binned the lot and gave me a telling off.

[marval]

Thank you Buenchico, that is brilliant. I loved The Two Ronnies.

[sunny-dave]

Suffolk 'n' Nightmare ....

[Buenchico]

^^^ LOL @ Dave!

Your 'saucers' post, Gness, reminds of when I used the white tape that the PE department used for marking court lines in the gym to put a big North-pointing arrow on the floor of my maths classroom (so that we'd got a reference point for work on bearings over the next few terms). The cleaner complained that she had a devil of a job getting it off!

[gness]

And you just have to smile don't you, Chris.....x

[melv16]

A few pieces of modern art have ended up in the bin when cleaners in art galleries have thought they were rubbish:-)

[zebo]

The cleaner must have been feeling a bit Dewey-lally.

[zebo]

My daughter's class when she was in the Infants made some lovely pasta pictures which unfortunately attracted all the mice on the neighbourhood, apparently her teacher never did that again!

[Buenchico]

LOL @ Zebo's 2344 post!

Teaching is fraught with disasters, Zebo. When I was in my 4th year at teacher training college (having already qualified as a teacher but going on for my degree), one of the 1st year students asked me to look at the project she's prepared on rthe topic of 'mills' for the middle school in which she'd be doing her first teaching practice. She must have spent hundreds of hours on it, with posters about the different types of windmills, poems about windmills, lesson plans themed about windmills and so on.

I felt terrible about reminding her that we were in Sheffield, which was a city built upon the knife-grinding industries in the river valleys that powered the water mills!

[jno]

that's how Samuel Pepys used to arrange his books. This was pre-Dewey, of course.

[tomus42]

Her topic was windmills though yeah?

[Buenchico]

Ah, but Pepys wasn't satisfied with having books arranged from large to small (or vice versa), Jno. He required them all to appear to be exactly the same height.

Quote:
"A peculiarity of Pepys's arrangement was that he wanted each book on each shelf to be the same height, and when any book was shorter than the others he had a wooden base made for it, the visible portion of which was rounded and covered in tooled leather to resemble the spine of the book which would sit on it"

Source:
http://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2026

I wonder what he would have done if, after getting loads of wooden bases made for the smaller books, he then acquired a book which was bigger than any other in his collection? Would he have needed to give that book a shelf all to itself or would he have had to had new bases made for all the existing books on the shelf where he was to place it?

[Buenchico]

No, Tomus. The topic the school had given her related to Sheffield history, and she therefore have prepared all her materials about watermills.

[tomus42]

Ok, that's fine Bc. You didn't say that before. You said the topic was mills.

[emmie]

that made me laugh, what were he/she thinking.....

[waterboatman]

Nice one Chris! :o}

[waterboatman]

I've been to the land of the South folk many times. Vera had relatives there.

[Chipchopper]

Fantastic beers indeed, I've just ordered a crate of beer from the wolf brewery, over the border in Norfolk.