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My friend was on Emmerdale Farms for around 20 years, so I wish they would show it here. They used to show Eastenders, but I haven't seen it on TV in years.
Jenny - I never got into Emmerdale Farm, or Coronation Street. I think they used to show EastEnders on more public TV stations, but apparently it's very expensive to put on and the audience is too small to justify it.
They took it off in LA a couple of years ago, and to my delight when we moved to Philly it was still on here. So I got my EastEnders fix back.
Stay safe!! Just the thought of tornados scares the crud out of me.
Thanks Dew. I think we will be ok. It seems more like a tropical storm than anything else. It would be a great day for Netflixing some movies but I can't tear myself from the Bay News 9 local news channel lol.
I've been through a couple of tornados in SoCal. (Yes, they have them there. In the winter there are even water spouts that come in off the Pacific. Which you actually may know since you lived there.) But "small" ones. Trees knocked over. Stuff blown around. Probably the force of a real strong Santa Ana wind in CA.
I spent a lot of summers in Michigan and every time the tornado alerts came on, I'm sorry but I went into the basement. Earthquakes, brush fires, mud slides I can handle. Tornados, no. (Too much Wizard of Oz when I was a kid?)
During natural disasters in SoCal our TV stayed on 24/7. I always wanted to know where we stood on things.
I have a feeling that "bully victim" parents are just as impossible as "peanut" parents.
Parents didn't go running to the school when I was growing up. What is happening to the world with today's overprotectiveness?
Seriously. Starting in sixth grade the other girls began to make fun of me all the time. It didn't bother me one bit until the principal took it upon herself to bring me into the office and make sure I was OK. Nothing about me would have led them to think I was having any problem at all dealing with it. I had other friends and just ignored the girls. Goodness.
On parent volunteers in the classroom, we had absolutely none. Parents just did not help out with the school except for the yearly "school carnival." The kids and teachers did fine without the help. Yes, it was a low income school, but even the mom's who stayed at home did not go down to the school. The only thing that all the parents went to were conferences in elementary school. The school always made the parents show up, and no excuses were allowed for those.
During my elementary school days (60's) parents came to school three times: Back to School night, (big deal - we showed off our ceramic turtles), Parent/Teacher conferences in the Fall, and the Christmas Pagent. Parent/Teacher conferences were held at night. The parents got dressed to the teeth. I can remember my mom wearing her Chanel no. 5 and her good jewelry it was such an event. (Granted there was no place else to go to. My poor mom was probably starved for a night on the town.)
No one even thought of bringing cookies and parents weren't expected to volunteer. (My school district had oodles of money back then.) I don't think it ever crossed anyone's mind to have the parents volunteer at the school.
Other than that if a Mom showed up at school it was because somebody threw up and the office called her to come take little Dennis home.
My school did have PTA but my parents refused to join. It was a very conservative town and I think they used to talk about things like "The John Birch Society and How it Improves Our 4th Graders".
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