Aaaaaaaaaaaagh! Right in my goolies Sooz! You'll have to carry my guitar-case for me now, I'm too doubled up with pain!

Lowden - while I disagree with Sooz about cribsheets (and we're mates so we can disagree in a happy way!) I have to stand up for her regarding teaching (and I'm one of those who was a youth worker for years and is no fan of teachers generally) and say that I know from personal experience how successful she is as a teacher, yet she's one of the few teachers I know who NEVER whinges about 'overwork', 'underpayment', 'little bastards', 'can't wait to retire', 'give me the redundancy pay', 'feckin' Ofsted' etc. She's the first to acknowledge that she's in a demanding but highly rewarding profession. Knock her comments on crib-sheets by all means - I'm with you on that (and she knows me and my views very well indeed) - but please, please lay off her as regards the day-job, she's a star in the education firmament!

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