Bloody schools

For no particular reason here's a picture of a fireplace.

I'll try and stop talking about the weather because it's getting boring now, but this is all new to me and quite an experience. Anyway, I have one last thing to say. The forecast for Monday is a high of -20 Celsius and a low of -29 Celsius. That's, like, friggin' cold in anyone's language. When I read the BBC news and they're in paroxysm's of excitement about a smattering of wet snow it makes me laugh derisively. We always used to say in England that the winter's were a lot worse than people thought - well they're not. They are nuffin!

Anyway, what I was originally going to post about. My daughter has been mucked around by the school which has got right on my nips. We're not used to it, being from England, but the schools here nickel and dime you. She sold 6 magazine subscriptions a couple of months back (which still haven't started arriving) and this week she received some "prizes" for all her effort. Three pens, some flashing necklaces (which broke almost immediately), a couple of squishy light up rubber UFO Frisbees (of which one is broken) and a plastic beaker with seizure inducing flashing lights in the bottom. Anyway, some bint at the school asked her to return some of them because they weren't hers and were given to her in error. She was asked to bring back the working ones and keep the broken ones - the effing nerve of it! Anyway, she didn't want us to make a fuss, so we didn't. She took them back a couple of days ago and then had them returned today because the school had got it wrong and the other kids did get their "prizes".

No apologies, nothing. Well? Next fund raiser, you can forget it.