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17 sets of twins prepare to start school in Scottish district
A scottish local authority colloqui¬ally known as “Twinverclyde” is bracing itself for the second-larg¬est number of twins on record starting primary school next week.
Schools in Inverclyde will welcome 17 sets of twins next Friday.
The only other time more twins started school in the region was in 2015, when 19 sets of twins started primary school.
On Friday, the majority of the 2023 class gathered at St Patrick’s Primary School in Greenock for a dress rehears¬al ahead of their first day.
Most of the youngsters were pres¬ent with 15 of the 17 sets of twins in attendance.
St Patrick’s, along with Ardgowan Primary, is one of two schools in Inver¬clyde taking in the most pairs of twins, with three sets each joining their respective primary one classes.
The class of 2023 will take the Inverclyde twin count to 147 sets since 2013 – an average of 13 sets each year.
Graeme Brooks, de¬pute provost of Inver¬clyde Council, said: “It has become an annual tradition in Inverclyde, or Twinverclyde as we’ve become known, to welcome our twins into primary one.
“Excitement is definitely building for the start of the new term next week and what better way to look forward to that than seeing the pu¬pils here looking resplendent in their uniforms.
“It’s also a good bit of fun for par¬ents too – and a handy dress rehearsal ahead of the real thing next Friday.
“We’re lucky to have so many incredible schools here in Inverclyde with every one renewed or extensive¬ly refurbished, including St Patrick’s which was rebuilt and opened in 2016, thanks to the council’s unprecedented quarter billion (£250,000,000) invest¬ment in our schools estate.
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I spent some nights with her, and the behaviour of her baby makes me feel like there’s another man she knows. She cries when I pick her up.
The same thing happens when she wakes up and sees me in bed with her mother. I’m not comfortable with the way that baby looks at me. It’s as though there’s someone else looking at me through her eyes. She doesn’t blink an eye. She looks at me as if I’m not the one she’s expecting to see. Is this normal?
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Psychiatrist: Does a dream usually precede your bed-wetting?
Man: Yes.
Psychiatrist: Tell me how it happens.
Man: A little demon appears to me in my sleep and says, “Hey… Let us pee.” Then, I wake up to see the bed wet with my urine.
Psychiatrist: This is what you must do. If the demon comes tonight and tells you “let us pee”, just reply him that you have already peed.
The man left and returned the following day with tears streaming down his face.
Psychiatrist: Why are you weeping? Didn’t my therapy work?
Man: You have worsened my case!
Psychiatrist: What? How?
Man: When the demon came, I told him I’d already peed. Then he said, “OK, let us sh*t.”
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