Last day of school today so we had a quick breakfast in the famous golden arches restaurant before dropping them at the school. As we took delivery of the coffees the kids grabbed the sugar sachets and readied to tear off the tops and pour them into my black coffee.

I warned them,

“if you guys don’t stick in at school and keep up all your good work, you could end up with the job of filling all these little sugar packets you know”

Lottie looked at me, slightly puzzled, kind of enquiring, sort of ‘you sure?’, Scarlett merely assessed what I’d said, carefully weighing up, and Ted, well Ted, he came back, quick as a flash of light,

“Don’t be silly Dad, it’s a machine that does that…”

Seems the heady mix of school and cable TV is working then.

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