david_a_dutch

MacDonalds. Monopoly Tokens....

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:52:30 GMT

Hi Folks this is a bit of a bizarre entry..Do any of you guys eat MacDonalds? I dont usually but found myself out and about, was starving so grabbed a meal with Carol. Anyway there doing a competition right now where u have to collect the diffrent street names of the monopoly board. If you get 3 of the same colour you win a prize.. I have a few tokens of the same colour and loads of doubles. This might help someone win as you might need some of the ones I have to win.. If you have tokens please put them on LJ as people can pull together and maybe win something!!
I need orange Marlborough St
Northumberland Ave ( Pink)
Coventry St (Yellow)
Mayfair ( Dark Blue)
I have spare Pentonville-Blue, Pall Mall-Pink, Oxford St-Green, Bow St - orange, Marylebone station and Kings Cross Station. Leicester Sq-Yellow..

Send a Strip!!!

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:10:15 GMT

The latest on our project is that Gretna sent us a van load and it arrived today.. It took the whole of our class to sort through it. They sent bout 13 boxes. Some big and small.. They also sent us last seasons match worn strips with all the official badges and stuff on them. A box arrived today from Queen of the South. They sent us 14 strips which is class. On saturday the Morton Chairman included in his pre match column all about our project and how he would hand deliver any strips which are sent to him... Clyde put a double page advert in their Match programme which included my p6 pupils letter and my own.again which was great... So just waiting to hear back from some of the northern clubs like Aberdeen and Inverness Caley etc... The responce has been amazing..Some of the staff are striking tommorow for some reason so the kids aint in-which is class as I can get some time to plan my next steps... I'll keep you posted....

Send a strip-Latest!!!

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:56:56 GMT

Hi all, just to let you all know the latest on our Football strip project. As it stands today we have 390 tops and about 150 shorts and socks. This project has just been amazing. We recieved 2 phone calls this morning. One was from kilmarnock. They were brilliant, they are going to send a box of kits to the school. Then Gretna Fc phoned. There chairman is a millionaire and he owns a sportswear company. He personally is paying for a transit van load of Strips and tracksuits to be delivered to the school. Is that not amazing..the whole project has got massive and we have not heard back from 23 professional football teams yet... Clyde Fc phoned tonight. The guy on the phone was sound..He was dead encouraging and said they would get some last seasons kits and send them to the school..Dougie has a mate called Skoogs and he is getting us a shed load of stuff for the project.. Man..I'm actually feeling quite moved by all this... the generosity of some people is outstanding... Anyway not finished yet... If any of you guys know of means of charity funding then please let me know.. I get the feeling this is not gonna be cheap to get this stuff out there..those of you who believe please pray that somehow provision for this stuff to get out to the kids will be provided... Speak soon all!!!

Out of control!!

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:35:52 GMT

hey people... a couple of weeks ago my class and I embarked on a small journey!! By chance a number of Langauge activities led to discussions about poverty in the world and why did we have so much and other countries so little.. We decided to try and help somebody else who was less fortunate than ourselves. I told the kids of an idea which I had had bout making a huge football strip picture in the playground using old football strips. I would then want to send then to a school or organisation which would enjoy this small gift. The kids in my class thought this was a great idea and so we began.. We decided to bring our (class) old tops in first and see how big our picture was with just our tops. We tried this a week ago. We had 42 tops and various shorts and socks. It looked great but it wasn't that big. We started making posters and leaflets to send home to each family in the school. These were sent home 2 Fridays ago. The responce was amazing. We got another 40 last Monday. By Wed we had 160 and Friday 220. This morning a boy in my class brought in 100 tops and shorts and socks..his dad has some cool contacts... By the end of today we have 340... We are going to send them to a village in South Africa called Venda. Our school chaplain has contacts there and she was involved in raising money for and building a school out there..The stories of these kids is tradgic so maybe a football strip might bring a wee smile to there faces... anyway with a bit of luck I'll manage out to south Africa myself to hand these strips out.. The strips will be worn and sold by the school to help raise money for clean water.. sobering thought eh... Im so excited about this whole project.. We have written to 27 scottish football teams to ask for there help so we'll see what comes of that.. Please guys if you have any old tops you dont wear get in contact with me and I'll arrange to get them from you..Your help would be som much appreciated and thanks to those who have given already...

Help...

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:02:24 GMT

Hi all..Thinking about buying an ipod..The sole purpose of this is so I can play music in the car. My car only has a Cd player so is it possible to buy some gadget that will play the music through your car system.. I 've found loads of cool downloads lately that I'd like the chance to listen to which I cant seem to get onto CD. Please help with suggestions....

Long time...

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:51:10 GMT

Hi people.. its been a while but I'm back.. Since I last updated I have become a dad for the first time.. what a superb experience! Carol my wife had a hard time for the week before Jack was born. For all you girls he was 9lbs 2 which is big for all u boys... Its something that I have been asked loads of time -What weight were you when you were born? I don't know..why would you ask a question like that....anyway Jack is great so far, he's dead laid back and when he's not sleeping he's happy to look about which is great.. Can't quite get past the fact I'm a dad but hey I'm 27 so thats quite old..

Also I have HMI inspectors who have arrived at the school. For those of you who dont know- thats quite a big deal. It involves a lot of work and its all a bit nerve wracking!! So far so good. They came today and seem nice which is good. The kids in my class met them and they said they were nice which from what I hear is not always the case.. Anyway we appear to be very fortunate.

Must go now, hope everybody has a great new year!

Baby is coming!!

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:07:34 GMT

Well the last 3 days have been the pretty mad.. My wife Carol is due to give birth to my first child. Woke up on Tue morning to find out Carol had been having contractions all night. I thought then, that this is it.. Went into work as these things take ages but my boss sent me home. Anyway things progressed, Carol still having regular contractions. The pain got worse and the hospital told us to come up. (3pm). They checked carol and sent us home as the midwife said there was still a lot of time before Baby was going to come.. So we went home and nothing happened for the rest of the night.. got up Wed morn and nothing new had happened . Went to work as usual and my boss sent me home at lunch as wasn't needed due to Christmas activities.. So into Wed evening nothing still happening-until midnight.. WATERS BREAK.. This was funny! Carol was laughing and I was relieved that something was finally happening. So its 2am and the contractions are soarer and closer together. Just been for a walk along Gourock front as midwife said to keep active.We are going to the Hospital at 6am this morn if not before... So here I am probabaly my last night without a child.. Mad mental thought.. Hope for Carols sake it goes ok.. Who am I kidding and mines!! Hope I dont faint or do anythin completely stupid. Prayers would be welcomed guys!! Well speak soon and hope I have something to report later on today!!

This is it!!

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:32:56 GMT

Tonights the night..Rangers are going to go through to the next round of the Champ League.. Man I'm nervous already as I will be there.. It's gonna be good.. Common the boys, for the good of Scottish football!! I right for the good of Rangers....

Inspector Calls!

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:42:25 GMT

Well todays the day that all teachers dread. HMI.. Yes there coming to my school on the first day back after the Christmas Holidays. At first I was gutted just due to the fact that Bambino Dutch is coming then, but now that I have had time to digest it a bit I am ok with it.. I've got 5 weeks to get my house in order so thats what I have to do... Guess what I'm doing tommorow-could it be work?

Manic tooo!!!

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:20:06 GMT

My life is so hectic right now.. dont know if it's the dark nights that make it feel later than it is all the time or if things are just getting busier!! My moan of the day is disobedience!!! There are children- good nice kids who honestly dont know what it is to be obedient..Not talking about what the word means but the whole concept of it! Its quite an easy thing really if an adult who is responsible for you tells you to do something then you do it!! I think ( now that I'm past the age) we should start military national service at the age of 8.. I'm sure that would work!! Funny I'm writing this and remembering at the same time what I was like as a child in class- although I was always acting the clown I dont think I was as blatantly disobedient as the middle class kids who do not have hard lives are in my class..
Anyway I'll fight on to make then good!! It has been one of those headbanging days when you feel as if you have got nowhere despite a load of work and effort!!

Been reading my bible loads recently- big chunks at a time to try and help my understanding of it!! I have been really enjoying trying to piece it all altogether.. This is in responce to Eric from Botswana s testimony about revival in his country.. I have been reading Pauls letters- its mad how in thousands of years things have changed so much ie technology but the letters still address the same people with the same problems!! I see the letters in a whole other way, if you read and understand them but dont do as they instruct ( or make no attempt) then in a way you are being disobedient!!! Very challenged right....

Anyway 3 weeks Friday long lies end!! Looking forward to wee Angus or Tinkerbell being born..should be a ball!!Got rugby training tonight so probably wont update for a while due to broken bones!!
Onwards and Upwards!!

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:31:32 GMT

Have you ever woken up and felt this ache..its an ache like no other!! Well it happened to me this morning.. I woke to find a belter and I mean a belter of a spot on my neck. I thought tou finished getting spots at 16 but NO... I've never really had spots at any time in my life so this morning was quite hard to take.. Anyway I think its on the mend- well I hope so as I've spent about 40 quids worth of aftershave on it- in the hope it calms it down!!

Friday!

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:45:35 GMT

Man what a week.. SOOOO glad its Friday. Had a great time with the Primary 7s at Rugby training today. Its brilliant to see a whole load of boys joining in a new sport all at the same ability level. Football as a sportis so dominant amongst the boys and it been great having boys come along who's only sport was Pokemon cards!! We have a great grass area which unfortunately is waterlogged as it would be carcking to get them out on the grass for a real shot. I learned recently that the SRU coach who organises the coaching used to play for the Rugby league team Bradford Bulls..quite cool eh. Think they just won a major comp in England!
(8)
C(5)

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:47:27 GMT

Two Names You Go By 1. Dave 2. Dutchy

Two Parts of Your Heritage 1. Scottish 2. English

Two Things That Scare You 1. Our Government 2. Delivering my own baby!

Two of Your Everyday Essentials 1. Bible 2. Time with Carol

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now 1. Wales rugby shirt 2. Spurs shorts

Two Truths 1. There is a God 2. I've got to work

Two Physical Things that Appeal to You (in general) 1. Health 2. Sense of humour

Two of Your Favorite Hobbies 1. Football 2. Rugby

Two Things You Want Really Badly 1. For my baby to be born fit and healthy 2. to see Spurs win something!!

Two Places You Want to go on Vacation 1. Kuala Lumpur- Malaysia 2. San Fran...

Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die 1. Go to the Superbowl 2. See all my friends become Christians

Two Ways that you are stereotypically a Chick/Guy 1. Hate going food shopping 2. Don't ever hoover

Two Things You Normally Wouldn't Admit 1.I supported Celtic against Blackburn 2. I faint at giving blood

Two Things You Are Thinking About Now 1. Weather-horrendous 2. What I'm going to have for tea!

Two Stores You Shop At 1. Greaves 2. Cruise

Two people I would like to see take this quiz 1. jo 2. dug

Two people I haven't talked to in a while 1. Boab 2. Cousin Colin

Speaking Contest!!

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:01:58 GMT

Just back from a school public speaking contest in which a few of my pupils were taking part. It was the school final. One of my kids won which was great until I realised I'm expected to go and see her perform in future competitions.. (eh NO) The speeches were over fairly quickly and on the whole were quite entertaining but not worth missing the student meeting for..The guys who put these comps on are really decent but a bit eccentric. Anyway cant make the next round as the wife is dragging me along too a baby parenting class- man what a life I've got!!
(4) Carol (6).

Church tonight!

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:31:15 GMT

(7) Carol(5)..

Church great tonight. Very busy with loads of new people which was great! Don't know what people thought of it or how people got on but guess we'll hear in the days to come. Well done all who helped as these nights are a massive job to pull off.

Baby Prep!

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:54:33 GMT

(0)so far! Was at the Southern General today visiting the Labour suite where my good lady will be going soon. Quite an eye opener as you get to see round all the rooms and equipment!! We went round the tour with a few other couples who were looking as nervous as we were! Think it hit home today what Carol( wife) is going to have to go through.. Well worth a visit...( if your havin a baby) would nt recommend it for a saturday afternoon trip out...Off to bookshop soon for Supper Outreach..Hope it goes well.. will be back later!

Bible Readings...

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:23:19 GMT

On Sunday we as a young peoples group had a particuarly good meeting. We raised a lot of issues- the main one being the time we give too praying, reading the bible and generally spending time with our Lord Jesus. Dug made an excellent point that he had heard someone preach about tything. That tything was not only 10% of your money but also of your time which works out about 2 and a half hours a day. Like everyone else we all live a very busy life but should our time for Christ be left to the end of the day for half hour (or even) or should we be re-arranging our time that God takes a more central role.. Of course we should but do we? We talked about having your time alone with Christ before you take part in any earthly pleasures whether that be internet, sport, socialising or even just reading( all ok things too do) but Christ should come first and other activities later. The idea behind the numbers in brackets is for us too mark our bible readings. The number says how many chapters we have read of the bible that day. It is soooo NOT a competition or a spiritual ego boost but to simply log each day that we have spent time with the Lord. People are free to opt in or out as they please but I personally have found it excellent as I have been looking at Romans. The amount of chapters you read is not to take away from any quiet time you already have but its too help us spend time with him. I was particuarly touched by what Eric had to say about Revival in South Africa at the Fire Conference and again on Sat night. About him reading the bible 8 times through and then the New testament 40 times through at a rate of 40 chapters a day. I am no way going to be able to manage that but half hour a day is not too much to ask on my behalf and am already greatly feeling the benefit of it! I hope this is clear and people feel as challenged as I do right now - lets try and take our eyes of ourselves and back on him! Onwards and upwards!!

Revival!!

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:50:28 GMT

Heard a few people talking about this website..From what I've seen and heard so far it's excellent!! www.fireonthealter.com
It's got loads of sermon downloads etc

Tuesday!!

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:47:35 GMT

Had another footabll tournament with the P7 boys..Gutted.. This time they played well and got stuck right in only to miss out on the next round due to goal difference- well harsh.. Anyway at least they won a few this time. Last night had such a laugh at Jo's Birthday night. Lorna produced this amazing 80's quiz which was such a trip down memory lane! One of the main debating points was the main trainers you wore - I said Adidas kick as did Fraser but the answer was Nike air jordan.. Well done Lorna- what a laugh!!! (0) yet!!

Monday!!

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:40:51 GMT

What a great day! I was dead organised and the kids got loads done. Just back and have got HOMEWORK to do and then off to Jo's birthday bash!Superb...
Ps Loved last nights young people s meeting! We are getting really getting a grip now and the responce of those who were there was great..onwards and upwards!!!

What a week..

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:06:36 GMT

Man I'm glad its friday..Had some week in school. Think it started with Halloween on Monday! Kids have been hyper and very badly behaved all week.. The children are involved in a speech competition right now which is great but having to listen to the same speeches over and over is painful..Some of the kids are dead funny and have put a lot of work into them but some of the titles and talks are mental.. Anyway back home to do some work before going back to P.e after playtime!! Got rugby with the P7 boys after school which should be a laugh.. We are going on the grass so we'll be bogging by the end of it!!

Meeting excellent last night- and what a welcome I had!! Can someone please explain in detail what Andy was saying when I arrived ( due to traffic) extremely late!!
oh to top of my week our school got a new laminator.. this doesnt happen very often - guess who was responsible for it breaking it?

Home again..

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:29:24 GMT

Thats me home for a couple of hours.. Every Friday I get 2 hours off to do work and as I live locally can go home..Dont get much work done in fact dont ever do any but I do have a rather large breakfast.. Carol off work with big ballooned ankles so I've got company! looking forward to tonight Youth outreach always excellent!!

Pretend Shop!!

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:50:00 GMT

Well today trops I had a ball!!!! When your in primary 1 and maybe in primary 2 you play with shops and pretend to buy things for fun supposedly!! I played in the house corner- well fought in the house corner with my pal BOAB ( fat ).. Anyway I made a cool shop for one of my strugglin kids as he is finding learning about money 'well ard'... What a hoot- its called Jamies Junk and he s got the lot from the bleeper thing that reads bar codes to a till and junk to sell.. cant believe i enjoyed making this but the alternative was Maths and Language.. Maybe the latter are more important but there must be some educational benefit of painting a shop..

I chat..Confused!

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:21:12 GMT

When i talk about "i-chat" i mean the programme on a mac which allows you to chat across the internet like yahoo messenger etc.. Is that the same i chat that everyone else is talking about?

i chat?

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:55:28 GMT

Does anyone still use this? Maybe I just have it set up wrong but nobody seems to be on it anymore...
dave