What a shambles all this " exam grades re-adjustment" is turning out to be. What a surprise ! The rot set in when "they" announced that ... ... they would all get "The Grades That They Need" ( !!!) .. now there's a thing. ... could it possibly have anything to do with ... ... the desperate need that Universities have for MON€Y. ? I'll leave that for you to consider. But what I say is .... why can't I claim " The List That I Need." (??) After all, my " almost 400" list is only (slightly) deficient because ... ... things haven't always worked out the way they should have. ... which wasn't my fault. .... that " Not going to tick Lesser Grey Shrike" episode was a striking example of "offspring-twitch-blocking" ..as was the " Capercaillie Dip" due to Lack of Time ... ... and the " No time to stop at the Definite Ptarmigan Viewing Spot" ... just a few of the "Offspring Effect Disasters" that I have had. It's not my fault that "we" had twins ..... I can assure you that twins are about 237x as much troubles as just the one. Maybe 250 x. My plan was, with the one child we were assured we were going to have, I could still do a lot of birding while The Significant Otter looked after the 1 (one) child. So, to suddenly discover, on "delivery day" , that we had in fact got two came as an avalanche of tectonic proportions.... I staggered back to my place of work like a person who has just spend an hour or two riding a Big Dipper ... a rather appropriate entertainment. From that moment on, my "Tick Trajectory" took a nose-dive into the abyss. "Flatlining" is , I think, the technical term. The King of Bryher, for example, isn't married. That just goes to show, does it not. And neither is The Flat Controller. [He never has thanked me, by the way, for that "weighing chart" I devised for him.] So what I'm proposing, in my current "delapidated, old-and-knackered" state, is that twin-owners should get a special subsidy from the gubblymint a bit like that " two-for-the-price-of-one" eating-out thingy. Fair Do's ! Here's a few links to "fill you in" on some of all that stuff ... -ode-on-not-ticking-the-capercaillie.html 694-the-ups-and-downs-of-birding.html 771-in-which-i-do-a-bit-of-upjustment.html 775-those-extra-32-ticks.html
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