BA speaks out

"Why did you make us go to school?" asked BA this evening, "How comes LA gets a better deal?"
...as I keep telling him, I was ignorant, I thought children had to attend school, I didn't know that there was an option.

Middle Acorns Work Experience

MA is on work experience this week at the local primary school, the very one she went to, she’s been allocated to one of her old teachers in year 1.
This is one of those situations which could go either way – she’ll either see only the benefits of a school education or see the real issues.
One of her first comments on arriving home last night was, “I agree with you now Mum, I can see why you don’t want to send LA to school. They don’t do anything.”
She has 2 weeks on this placement…so it’s a good start.

TalkTalk

TalkTalk are rubbish. Yet again we have no internet connection, BA is getting frantic, trying to get his A level coursework in on time with no broadband to do his research on. BA has been used to an internet connection since he was a mere tiny acorn; it’s very much confused him all this “todo” with TalkTalk.
We changed from the wonderful “absolutely no trouble in 7 years” Tiscali to TalkTalk 2 weeks ago, because the promises were good and the cost was less. Since this time we have had 4 faults with our connection and have been without a telephone for 4 days and an internet connection for 8. Even with my primitive maths skills I can work out that it’s not good.
Rich finally managed to get through to their “higher level” technical support yesterday, so we remain hopeful that it will all be solved today.

18:54 Here we are, back online....we must have made it through the agro of talktalk!!!