Comments on: Twenty-nine. http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Doug Belshawhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6330 Doug Belshaw Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:11:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-6330 Thanks Simon - it's always a balancing act, although I would hope that I always put my family first! :-D Thanks Simon – it’s always a balancing act, although I would hope that I always put my family first! :-D

]]> By: macca_mjmhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6329 macca_mjm Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:22:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-6329 Ha ha, my mum and dad bought me a guitar for my 21st birthday and suprise suprise i too have yet to master it, get a student to teach you it during dinner time. Ha ha, my mum and dad bought me a guitar for my 21st birthday and suprise suprise i too have yet to master it, get a student to teach you it during dinner time.

]]> By: Foxburghttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6328 Foxburg Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:49:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-6328 My warmest wishes for a Happy Birthday, just three more years until the mid-life crisis! My warmest wishes for a Happy Birthday, just three more years until the mid-life crisis!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6327 Anonymous Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:54:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-6327 30 is the new 20 30 is the new 20

]]> By: simfinhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/22/twenty-nine-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6326 simfin Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:16:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3956#comment-6326 Impressive achievements Doug - schools would be more exciting and dynamic places with a few more like you around. ..Going to sound like an old bloke here (indeed I am an old bloke, by any definition) and it is the prerogative of the old to 'tell' the young how to live their lives. Fret not about money - many of us were pretty mainscale teachers and enabled w' wives to be there for our young kids. Chez simfin it was only when the kids were well established in KS3 that we both worked full time and I think we had enough money to allow them to seize every opportunity. And secondly, much more importantly as I look at my almost 18yr old and 15yr old I wonder where the time has gone, would give anything to rewind the time to spend almost every minute with them when they were growing up. You don't get this time again Doug and in a blink of an eye that young son of yours will have his own life and you, like many of us will wonder if all that work stuff was worth it. Turn off your technology and commit the same energy to the youn 'un as you have to work! (climbing off soap box, feeling a bit sheepish) Have a fantastic Christmas with the little fella and let your new year's resolutions include treasuring every moment of his adventures :-) Impressive achievements Doug – schools would be more exciting and dynamic places with a few more like you around. ..Going to sound like an old bloke here (indeed I am an old bloke, by any definition) and it is the prerogative of the old to ‘tell’ the young how to live their lives. Fret not about money – many of us were pretty mainscale teachers and enabled w’ wives to be there for our young kids. Chez simfin it was only when the kids were well established in KS3 that we both worked full time and I think we had enough money to allow them to seize every opportunity. And secondly, much more importantly as I look at my almost 18yr old and 15yr old I wonder where the time has gone, would give anything to rewind the time to spend almost every minute with them when they were growing up. You don’t get this time again Doug and in a blink of an eye that young son of yours will have his own life and you, like many of us will wonder if all that work stuff was worth it. Turn off your technology and commit the same energy to the youn ‘un as you have to work!

(climbing off soap box, feeling a bit sheepish)

Have a fantastic Christmas with the little fella and let your new year’s resolutions include treasuring every moment of his adventures

:-)

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