After I took Issy's friend home, we went to the Book Fair at Luke's school. Jeez - the price of those books! They had the prices in GBPounds on the back so by the time I'd converted my NZ$ back to stirling I'd worked out a book for a fiver in the UK was costing me the equivalent of eight quid! I growled and parted with $40 (15 GBP) only for the children to be told to 'Come back tomorrow,' to collect them. Apparently they'd only put one of each book on the shelves so you couldn't take a copy there and then. My two sulked for 20 seconds then forgot about it but there were plenty of tear stained faces walking out that library.

Then we had Parents Evening. GULP! More male primary school teachers please... esp. if they look like our son's, hehehe. Kept that bit to myself. Didn't think Mr Steve would appreciate me saying "Oooh wasn't he nice," with a wink and dirty laugh like you do when you're with a girl friend. Anyway, Luke is one of the top six students for maths and english, is easy going and a delight to teach, so no worries there then. The thing is, his teacher said that he can't take credit for that as it was obvious he was bright when he arrived. What remains to be seen, is if this is due to his UK education... will he go downhill under NZed's system? They don't study geography or history as separate subjects but do something called Topic (which I thought was a chocolate bar) and that tries to combine everything in a sneaky way. They seem to have it pretty free and easy in primary school but I think they have to knuckle under a bit when they reach Intermediate schools. There are three schools here whereas in the UK you go to two, then further education if you wish. It's all a bit complicated.

Update for the weight loss: 4lbs off last week, happy with that considering the weekend. Went walking again yesterday - five minutes late in order to miss the Survival of the Fittest walking group, but I'm off out tonight. I have a babysitter! Whoo-hoo. Right, round to visit for a while.

< # Blogging Brits ? >

< ? blog-girls # >