"Robin Nicholson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 04:50:03 +0100, "Col"
wrote:

When I was a kid we didn't wear hats or used sun cream.

And I bet you made the odd daisy chain too. That has been banned.
Conkers too are out. I work with someone who once,at a meeting, asked
forgiveness for a (lazy) pupil because he was suffering from an
in-growing toenail. And there is another who spends a great deal of
time explaining away pupil issues..I got a filthy look when I got fed
up with this and suggested that the person would one day blame
Nelson's 3rd eye operation and the trauma on the pupils great great
etc grandmother.

Why on earth have daisy chains been banned?
It's coming to the point now that no child is ever to blame or held
responsible for their behaviour. It's always someone else's fault,
or poverty, or their environment, or television, or just society in
general. Sometimes kids, just like adults are simply not very nice
people. But this is a rant best left to postings on other newsgroups
as it's getting ridiculously off topic now

As for the weather, well another crack at making the elusive 30C today.
'Only' made 27.7C yesterday and there's not many times I have said that!
Currently 18.7C.

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.