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[Dream Girl]

Catherine Huntley in the Kim & Co hour at 12 midday
Going on about the voucher offer then goes on the proclaim, “I don’t earn anything for telling you about this offer”
Yes right so for all the hours you have been harping on about the vouchers QVC have failed to pay you for those hours worked then!

Ridiculous :mysmilie_365: :mysmilie_455:

 

[candycane]

She goes on about the voucher scheme so much maybe she gets her pay docked if she doesn't mention it 100 times a show.

CC

 

[Evie]

Rest assured I am pretty sure she is very well paid. Very much more than people doing very worthy work who get paid a great deal less. I am trying to resist buying from QVC because I do not want to contribute to the salaries of these awful, talentless show offs.

 

[AndiK]

CHuntley is so bad with numbers, I doubt she even knows what she's paid or what for.

 

[Toril]

Or she pretends to be useless at numbers to appear more "endearing." She may well have discalculia, but I tend to take what most of the presenters say with a pinch of salt.

 

[maymorganlondon]

It's a good thing QVC's demographic is not young women starting out in life,they might get some very strange ideas about how to go on in a professional capacity from potential role models on the channel.

I do think it's a great gift to work somewhere you love, doing something you love. Isn't there a saying that if you do a job you love, you never work a day in your life. If that's the case for Catherine Huntley, she's a very lucky lady.

 

[Twilight]

This is her latest blog, I have no words.
https://blogs.qvcuk.com/a-bevy-of-bovine-beauties/

 

[Loveinamist]

Isn’t that the hat with a hole?

 

[shopperholic]

This is her latest blog, I have no words.
https://blogs.qvcuk.com/a-bevy-of-bovine-beauties/

I could only read the first few lines and the picture was enough to make me want to throw up. Singing to cows? was only up until a year ago that she was carrying her lip stick and purse in one, while tottering around on a pair too. It’s obvious that the reason she turned selective “vegan” is the fact her “beau” (who never takes his hat off) must be a vegan.

 

[Evie]

Good grief! I actually do feel nauseous.

 

[alter ego]

Maybe she'll get trampled by a(nother) herd of irritated cows :mysmilie_11:

Seriously, people reading that (and the stupid woman writing it) will find themselves in big trouble one day when walking through a field full of cows, possibly separating mum from calf. People have been killed by not having respect for the unpredictable nature of these animals.

 

[Brissles]

I do seriously wonder how in God's name any of the presenters got their jobs, because it sure as hell wasn't for intelligence.

 

[SisterBliss]

Or she pretends to be useless at numbers to appear more "endearing." She may well have discalculia, but I tend to take what most of the presenters say with a pinch of salt.

This makes me so cross. She doesn't have it - she's either thick, or pretends to be.

Now I know there are many who have such conditions, but, & shame on them/the parents / who make **** up, to have extra help/time at school, or just to hide their child's below average abilities at the school gate/dinner party.

Makes me so cross, having suffered conditions myself that weren't 'out there' & I struggled through & suffered as a result. Rewind in today's times - completely different story.

Every difference has to have a label these days - be a 'thing'. Sick of it. I suspect that being left handed will soon be 'non dominant hand disorder' Grow a pair people.
Rant over.

(I am right handed btw)

I could only read the first few lines and the picture was enough to make me want to throw up. Singing to cows? was only up until a year ago that she was carrying her lip stick and purse in one, while tottering around on a pair too. It’s obvious that the reason she turned selective “vegan” is the fact her “beau” (who never takes his hat off) must be a vegan.

Did anyone listen to the singing? Any good?

I remember spending days on a farm as a kid with my bestie. We'd pet,chat to all the animals, even the bull! She put her face out to coo to the cow & it put its massive snotty tounge out & caught her open mouth & nose. #snogged the cow.
I did laugh!

 

[Toril]

This makes me so cross. She doesn't have it - she's either thick, or pretends to be.

Now I know there are many who have such conditions, but, & shame on them/the parents / who make **** up, to have extra help/time at school, or just to hide their child's below average abilities at the school gate/dinner party.

Makes me so cross, having suffered conditions myself that weren't 'out there' & I struggled through & suffered as a result. Rewind in today's times - completely different story.

Every difference has to have a label these days - be a 'thing'. Sick of it. I suspect that being left handed will soon be 'non dominant hand disorder' Grow a pair people.
Rant over.

(I am right handed btw)

Before retiring a couple of years ago, I was a teacher for 44 years and also a special educational needs coordinator (SENCo) and so have experience in identifying, testing and supporting children who had specific difficulties (autism, dyslexia and discalculia to name only 3) so can fully understand your frustration and comments about those who "play" on it.

 

[Twilight]

I could only read the first few lines and the picture was enough to make me want to throw up. Singing to cows? was only up until a year ago that she was carrying her lip stick and purse in one, while tottering around on a pair too. It’s obvious that the reason she turned selective “vegan” is the fact her “beau” (who never takes his hat off) must be a vegan.

I wonder if he always wears it :mysmilie_17:

 

[SisterBliss]

Before retiring a couple of years ago, I was a teacher for 44 years and also a special educational needs coordinator (SENCo) and so have experience in identifying, testing and supporting children who had specific difficulties (autism, dyslexia and discalculia to name only 3) so can fully understand your frustration and comments about those who "play" on it.

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I'd be very interested to know more about that. You are very professional in your comments - more than I'd be if I'd had your experiences - (which is probably why I'm not a teacher.)

I saw a programme about primary schools really struggling for funding for the SEN children. Dishonesty simply takes away from the children who really need the help.

 

[Twilight]

Before retiring a couple of years ago, I was a teacher for 44 years and also a special educational needs coordinator (SENCo) and so have experience in identifying, testing and supporting children who had specific difficulties (autism, dyslexia and discalculia to name only 3) so can fully understand your frustration and comments about those who "play" on it.

My thoughts as well. I also retired two years ago & it's very interesting to see what's happened to former students. One, whose parents loved the SN badge, is now senior cabin crew & flies the world. I can remember him in year 7 when we were told he was extremely claustrophobic, had to wear ear defenders because high pitched sounds really affected him & had massive difficulties communicating with anyone. I saw his mother a few months ago, she's rightly very proud of him, & loves the reduced rate travel he gets for her. However, her comment that he'd 'grown out' of his autism left me speechless, I've read about optimal outcome but don't think it applied to him.

 

[candycane]

I saw a programme about primary schools really struggling for funding for the SEN children. Dishonesty simply takes away from the children who really need the help.

I worked on a community project once and one family had a child with ADHD. They were helped to get a diagnosis and to claim any appropriate benefits. The mum kind of wore it like a badge and told all the other mums. All of a sudden there was an explosion of families with children with ADHD, so much so that they formed their own group. What I found interesting when sending out the leaflets to the families was that a large proportion of them lived in the same street.

CC

 

[Toril]

During my years as SENCo, I often identified children with a specific difficulty before the parents mentioned it. That was a difficult part of the job when I had to explain to them that their child needed support. I will say that our parents were very supportive and only one was a bit difficult, not because her child had a problem but because she kept insisting that he had. Testing by me and then the educational psychology provided evidence that we were correct and she was not.

My job used to be governed by the Code of Practice and there were strict guidelines to be followed when applying for a Statement of Educational Needs for a pupil. I'm proud to say that every child, for whom I put in a request, did get their statement.

However, things changed, as did the Code of Practice, which meant that statements were "shelved" and re-named and schools had to apply for additional funding for those pupils. As with most things, it became a "jumping through hoops" scenario with very little funding available.

I don't personally like the way things have gone, but am now a governor at the school at which I taught and I now oversee the quality and standards of education, as well as the special needs (which encompasses the high flying pupils too.) Despite all the government cuts, I will continue to fight for our children's education, even though I am now wearing a different hat.

 

[SisterBliss]

My thoughts as well. I also retired two years ago & it's very interesting to see what's happened to former students. One, whose parents loved the SN badge, is now senior cabin crew & flies the world. I can remember him in year 7 when we were told he was extremely claustrophobic, had to wear ear defenders because high pitched sounds really affected him & had massive difficulties communicating with anyone. I saw his mother a few months ago, she's rightly very proud of him, & loves the reduced rate travel he gets for her. However, her comment that he'd 'grown out' of his autism left me speechless, I've read about optimal outcome but don't think it applied to him.

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