Brockington College, a Shining Report, Well Done Nat, Henry, Quiz Night, Scouts, Work, Calls, Meeting, Twitter

Well who’s a clever boy then? Today we had to visit Brockington College to meet with Nat’s teachers for a report on his progress at school this year. What a fantastic surprise; with the expected exception of his hand writing and rushed presentation his teachers, without exception, had nothing but praise for him. Miss Lewis, his form teacher, was effusive in her praise of him, his attitude to learning and his knowledge. The only criticism she had to make was that he was impatient with others who didn’t have the same level of knowledge as he did. She warmed him that as he progressed thought the education system he would meet cleverer sand cleverer people and wouldn’t always be the brightest in the class. I think she was warning him of the dangers of Hubris.


He was performing at the highest levels in Science, Maths, History, Geography, ICT and English and made a good contribution in all his classes and could be relied on to answer the more difficult questions and to follow and develop arguments.

We bumped into lots of people we’d not seen for a while, Cathy (Jonathon’s Mum), Nicky (Connor’s Mum), Brandon’s Mum and Dad and finally Dave and Maxine (Henry’s parents). Judging by Dave and Maxine’s faces when they were speaking to Miss Lewis (who’s also Henry’s form teacher) they were finally learning a few unpalatable home truths about the apple of the eyes.

Henry can be a right little inconsiderate shit but each of them has always been utterly blind to this and has always, whenever someone has accused him of doing something wrong, uncritically taken his side. It is all well and good supporting your child but the end result is that he’s grown into an amoral little bastard who is virtually friendless. Nat, who’s usually pretty easy going, can’t abide him which of itself says a lot. Maybe this will prove to be a wake-up call…one can only hope so, for Henry’s sake as much as anything.

On a lighter note, we picked up tickets for the school quiz on Saturday and after chatting with the new head, a very nice chap it seemed, were invited, should we wish, to be part of his team. Obviously being a Parent Governor, as Deb is, has its perks!

When we got home Nat and Hannah got changed for scouts, Han is now attending Scouts as well as Cubs as preparation for moving up after next week. Deb drove them there while I remained home getting ready for work. Hope they had a good time; the question is, will Scouts be able to survive Hannah!

Work was incredibly busy, again, between 8-9pm for reasons I still can’t explain. Why are there 70 calls in queue at times when during the rest of the evening one is left waiting for the next call. We had a meeting, supposed to last an hour ran for 90 minutes in part because, as usually we were all left waiting for C to finish a call. She does this every time we have a meeting and there were many moans about her while we waited. The bike4work scheme has been launched again and this may be a good opportunity to get Nat the new bike he so desperately needs!

Spent some (a lot of) time on Twitter tonight and got JDM contributing suggestions for #animalsongs, in fact his first suggestion got retweeted almost immediately the jammy sod! This was Guinea, Guinea, Guinea a Lamb After Midnight #animalsongs Admittedly, I added lamb instead of man but he came up with Guinea.

Here the rest of tonight’s tweets:

We're Living on a Bear #animalsongs

@davejewood Me but taking a break and catching up on back episodes of Waking the Dead on the iPlayer.

@TwatBlock Thanks for the RT's

Two fat ladies...88 On it's Own ...1 ....VAGINA!!! #replacehousewithvagina

I got rid of that big old roomy vigina and got a smaller much more cosy little vigina instead. #replacehousewithvagina

Fucking sub-prime mortages; I've just been kicked out of my vagina! #replacehousewithvagina

I don't care how hard you bang on the door you're not coming in my vagina #replacehousewithvagina

I had to get a huge mortgage to afford this vagina #replacehousewithvagina

I'll Huff and I'll Puff and I'll Blow Down Your Vagina #replacehousewithvagina

Animal Vagina #replacehousewithvagina

Can't Buy Me Dove #animalsongs

Mole Out The Barrel #animalsongs

My Old Man's A Dustmite #animalsongs

Lice is a Minestrone.#animalsongs

It's Still Croc and Mole To Bee #animalsongs

Show Me The Way To Armdillo #animalsongs

Croc Around The Cock #animalsongs

@davejewood Thanks for the RT

Guinea, Guinea, Guinea a Lamb After Midnight #animalsongs

"Gnu York, Gnu York (So Good They Named It Lice)" #animalsongs

Gnu York In The Bark #animalsongs

Gnu York is a Wombat #animalsongs

Gnu York City Beaver #animalsongs

Gnu York City Gull #animalsongs

Tiger a Yellow Gibbon Round The Old Oak Flea. #animalsongs

Monkey's Too Tight (To Mention)" #animalsongs

Monkey For Nothing #animalsongs

Homeward Hound #animalsongs

Tie a Yellow Gibbon round the ole oak tree. #animalsongs

The Boxer #animalsongs

Love Me Moo #animalsongs

Rock Around The Cock #animalsongs

RT @scott_hurst: If all atheists left the USA it would lose 93% of the National Academy of Sciences but less than 1% of the prison population

MT @Darnack71: New craze: stick vodka-soaked tampon into your vagina or asshole to get wasted quickly. / Lends new meaning to string theory.

Herman’s Hernias #rubbishmusicians

The Sock Pistols #rubbishmusicians

Kink Floyd #rubbishmusicians

Manfred Womann #rubbishmusicians

Engelbert Humpsyoursink #rubbishmusicians

Cindy Slaughter #rubbishmusicians

Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tarquin #rubbishmusicians

#rubbishmusicians Mad Donna