Thursday 19 July 2012

The Last day of school, the Foreign Legion and sandwiches


The Last day of school of the school year before the big holiday. The pupils are gutted it means no homework maths, Latin, geography, history, English or watching the goat majestically heading over the school as it heads towards the out of town supermarket.  Most of the teachers spent today leaping about in the playground shouting and waving their arms about. However the science teachers have locked themselves in the science block and are laughing hysterically and refuse to come out. They say they are now free to do proper science with glowing things, laser beams and goldfish?

 

The headmaster spent most of the day arguing with parents telling them that it was no good bribing him to cancel the holiday as it was out of his hands. It can be a difficult holiday to get through firstly it is well long seven or eight weeks which is more that six or seven more weeks that most pupils have interesting things to do.  Then of cause the summer holidays happen right in the middle of summer and as we all know this is the time of year when the weather is at its worst.  Anyway that’s it the end of another school year, dads says that if I like I don’t need to go back and I could join the French Foreign Legion and trek over the endless sand dunes eating scorpions and sand castles. Dad said it is where a man gets true grit from, but I have told dad I can get true grit in my sandwiches on the beach at Barmouth.  I was told at school that the sandwich was so called because no matter how hard you try if you eat them at the beach they always get full of sand…….

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  1. School lets out for the summer earlier here. My daughter’s out of school so I don’t recall exactly, but I believe it’s somewhere from the middle to the end of June. I was one of those weird kids who excited for summer vacation to be over so I could go back to school. Proper science, hmm? That sounds like all sorts of fun! LOL

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    1. It is a strange thing the summer holiday you think such things are a universal standard but then you find it is different all over the world. In fact it is different all over Britain I'm sure somewhere like Durham has this weird holiday that is totally different due to an event like the traditional miners coal rolling and cheese making contest.... I may have the wrong town and wrong reason by the way.

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  2. Brilliant point about the gravitational pull that sandwiches exert on sand at beaches.

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    1. Yes it is very strange it is a wonder science has not done more research into this. Maybe they could trap the Higgs Boson in a sandwich rather than spends loads of money on a giant doughnut.

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  3. Spawn finished school early because of the Olympics.
    There have already been tears, tantrums, shouts of "I hate you!" And threats to run away...but enough about me...

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    1. Oooooo I do feel Miss Lily there must be a good post in that little comment. And I will hope you consider doing it soon. It made me laugh.......

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  4. I have never completely understood why the French are so fascinated with the Ions of the Leg. I figured out a long time ago that the ions of the Arm are totaLLy equivalent, and I think the French Foreign Leg-Ion is an Arm-y.

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    1. The Old saying An Army marches on its stomach was finally proved false by the French when it was discovered that an army marches much faster on its legs. However as you say, an Arm-y is not a legg-y so in order to join these forces to form cohesion between leg and arm a length of iron was used where the ions in the iron are polarized to be positive thus a French leg-ion will always be positive and march forward. The Foreign refers to the insertion of the iron to connect all the parts....

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    2. I discovered that the scientist Italian scientist Volta was honored by French guy Napolean who said he should be a count. So we can count on the electricity being available to form a circuit, as Volta was very circuitous as weLL, he was born and died in the same place 82 years later.

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    3. I also discovered that the light on my front porch stays on aLL the time, when it is s'pposed to have a motion detector that makes the light go off after awhile. Perhaps there are flying bugs attracted to the light that then the motion detector senses and then decides, oh, I need to stay on, "Motion!!", which of course attracts more bugs, more motion, ah, that's amore, as Volta would have said.

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