Monday is here again, which means back to work for most of us.

Has it rained yet where you are? What’s happening this week?

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Desperately hoping my 16 month old has a nap so I can start my next book.

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I bought some garden furniture. It rained within the hour.

I have a day off on Friday to go dormouse monitoring - assuming that it is dry then. Dormice don’t like the rain and disturbing them when they will get wet is not something we want to be doing.

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Any chance of dormouse pics, or do you not want to intrude?

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dormouse monitoring

That sounds interesting, are you doing population surveys?

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Yes - part of the national monitoring programme. I have been monitoring this particular site for almost 20 years now. The population is fairly steady here overall.

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Half way through my run of 7 nightshifts, I was hoping the nice weather would last until my days off but alas in the North of Scotland we’re returning to our damp grey usual.

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Busy, busy week ahead. The eldest is going to high school this year, so we have a parents assembly tonight and he has three full taster days, so the routine of the week has been thrown into chaos.

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@sideone @rubikfrog

‘High school’? Since when did we become Americanised? Surely you mean seniors? 😄

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TIL it’s High School in Scotland and not in [edit: some parts of] England!

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West midlands people call it High School, and did twenty years ago

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Not where I grew up and went to secondary school 20 years ago…

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I’ve always known it as secondary school

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My friends.

Maybe this is our chance to get rid of the tiresome Reddit trope of trying to catch people out in so-called “Americanisms” (that usually just ended up being different British dialects anyway).

Maybe this is our chance to be better.

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Indeed. Also, the “Where are you from” thread highlighted that we have subscribers (Lemmys / Lemmies?) from all over the world, we should welcome everyone even if they spell something differently to you.

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Up at 4.15 trying to get tiny child to sleep. Then at 4.55 slightly larger child wakes up and refuses to go back to sleep. Downstairs at 5.00 watching Sarah and Duck (quack).

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Although Sarah and Duck is good at any time of day, it’s especially good in the quiet hours.

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