Let me introduce you to another member of the cast. My youngest has just become a teen and he is like any other teen boy in the country… well almost. He likes his football, is loud and eats food mainly from the ‘sugar’ group.

Let’s call him JJ.

During one of those advertisement breaks on the TV we were shown the new CD from Sandi Thom

When JJ heard the title of this he said, ‘ Is she one of those people who thinks too much’, I don’t add the question mark as the comment was purely rhetorical, that’s my boy.

He has also been doing a paper round over the summer to earn some money. As he is only 13 he needs a work permit to do this. So we applied for one. We got an answer yesterday saying that the permit was refused becasue his school attendence was unsatisfactory. This attendence was based on the new term which started a couple of weeks back. As he has had a few days off, for a bad virus, his attendence was down. When we contacted the work permit dudes, they said that if his attendence improved he could get a permit. He needs to increase his attendence by 10%, which, becasue it is so new into the term, equates to him attending for the rest of this week and next. Essentially, the idiots have refused a permit becasue they don’t understand percentages. If you have three days off out of three you have an attendence of 0%. If you have three days off out of six your attendence is 50%.

Roll on the free economy… at this rate I’ll be voting Tory at the next election. Well I would if this guy was the leader

Only joking