May 2002
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Parents
Truancy prosecution was LEA’s ‘duty’. The responsibility of ensuring our children attend school is a joint effort between school and parent. The school tried everything in it’s power to correct the situation and without support from the parent in question, failed. One half of the party did it’s job, the other didn’t. Yes it’s a…
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Hissing Sid
Did I say I found a snake in our back garden? (There are only three native species in the UK, the grass snake, smooth snake and the adder) It was when we were clearing out the side of the garage, the previous owners, or the owners before that, had left a lot of branches and…
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Moo
Ohhh almost forgot. Cows are scary. I was driving back from the skip yesterday morning, and on rounding the bend came across 3 cows wandering along the road. Another car came from the other direction, and the cows turned round and started trotting towards my car. Straight at it. Now trust me, cows are quite…
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Scruples Saturday
Saturday Scruples (yeah yeah a day late…) 1. Outside a liquor store, a needy person offers to watch your bike while you’re inside. He needs to be trusted. Do you take a chance? No. I would lock it up, and thank them for the sentiment, probably chat with them a little about the state of…
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Linkeroo
Rather than post a whole host of differently timed links I’ll just pull them together here (courtesy of w.bloggar): hydragenic prompts another addition to the MUST BUY list. spinning-jennie helps raise money, runs really far and gains a LOT of respect! You go girl! “accidental. screw planning.” The ‘lean, mean packing machine’ has finished her…
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Catchup
Feeling much better, thank you to everyone who passed on various remedies, from chicken soup (which I thought was better for the soul?) to the message of ‘pull yourself together, bloody men, can’t handle a little sniffle…’ – thanks to all. So what did I miss? It was odd being away from a computer for…