Despite the 8cm of snow I was pleased to see that my 5 year old grandson had
gone to school. (They're tough you know, these little southerners). More
disappointing is that the very light wind is now from the west, the temp is
up to 3C and the snow is melting fast so it looks like the reward for going
to school is not going to be the promised sledging trip. Hopefully, the
extra 100m altitude will save the day.
Dave, S.Essex

Dave Cornwell wrote:
Despite the 8cm of snow I was pleased to see that my 5 year old grandson had
gone to school. (They're tough you know, these little southerners). More
disappointing is that the very light wind is now from the west, the temp is
up to 3C and the snow is melting fast so it looks like the reward for going
to school is not going to be the promised sledging trip. Hopefully, the
extra 100m altitude will save the day.
Dave, S.Essex


We called the school this morning and told them that we were keeping the
kids off to go sledging!!

You could hear from their tone that they were not impressed but heh!,
the last time we got enough snow to hurtle downhill on was 5 years ago
and the kids are only young once - I'm sure their education won't suffer.

As I write, our 6 year old is painting a picture of the mornings
activities and our 8 year old is writing an essay about what it felt
like to sit on a bit of plastic and hurtle downhill.

See, it was educational after all ;-)

Oh! just looked out and it's pouring with rain - They'll be some very
unhappy bunnies at the end of school today!

Cheers

Neil

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Dave Cornwell wrote:
Despite the 8cm of snow I was pleased to see that my 5 year old grandson
had gone to school. (They're tough you know, these little southerners).
More disappointing is that the very light wind is now from the west, the
temp is up to 3C and the snow is melting fast so it looks like the reward
for going to school is not going to be the promised sledging trip.
Hopefully, the extra 100m altitude will save the day.
Dave, S.Essex

We called the school this morning and told them that we were keeping the
kids off to go sledging!!

You could hear from their tone that they were not impressed but heh!, the
last time we got enough snow to hurtle downhill on was 5 years ago and the
kids are only young once - I'm sure their education won't suffer.

As I write, our 6 year old is painting a picture of the mornings
activities and our 8 year old is writing an essay about what it felt like
to sit on a bit of plastic and hurtle downhill.

See, it was educational after all ;-)

Oh! just looked out and it's pouring with rain - They'll be some very
unhappy bunnies at the end of school today!

Cheers

Neil

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Don't worry - The Langdon Hills piste was in fine fettle.

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We called the school this morning and told them that we were keeping the
kids off to go sledging!!


What a disgrace.
That should count as truancy.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

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"Neil" wrote in message
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We called the school this morning and told them that we were keeping the
kids off to go sledging!!


What a disgrace.
That should count as truancy.
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Bring back the birch :-)

Will.
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
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"Col" wrote in message
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What a disgrace.
That should count as truancy.
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Bring back the birch :-)

Well I'm sorry if I sound like a killjoy but I don't think that
something as ultimately fivilous as sledging counts in any
way, shape or form as a legitamate excuse for keeping
kids off school.
What's next, Christmas shopping, a trip to Alton Towers
when it's quieter?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

in 219931 20070208 184401 "Col" wrote:
"Neil" wrote in message
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We called the school this morning and told them that we were keeping the
kids off to go sledging!!


What a disgrace.
That should count as truancy.

I don't know if it's still the case but some US schools used to schedule "snow days"
into winter terms. Any day of extreme weather could be declared a "snow day"
and the school stayed closed for the day. At the end of the term unused "snow
days" were taken as "holiday".

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in 219931 20070208 184401 "Col" wrote:
"Neil" wrote in message
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We called the school this morning and told them that we were keeping the
kids off to go sledging!!


What a disgrace.
That should count as truancy.

I don't know if it's still the case but some US schools used to schedule "snow days"
into winter terms. Any day of extreme weather could be declared a "snow day"
and the school stayed closed for the day. At the end of the term unused "snow
days" were taken as "holiday".


Some, mostly in more northern climes, still do. I think the district I
grew up in had 2 per year and we generally used at least one. In
Norman, we don't have any, so we've got to make up those days that were
cancelled this year. We were scheduled to be off 16 and 19 Feb and
those days off are now gone, and then we'll have the other 3 days added
at the end of the year.

Harold
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Harold Brooks