24th August 2007

I’ve known most of you for a reasonably long time, but I’m not sure how many of you have children who are at GCSE or A level age. It could be quite a stressy period, unless, strange though it is to concede, you’ve got one like Hen. I was up in Norfolk for a couple of days holiday this week with two old family friends of ours. One of them had to drive their daughter 70 miles at the crack of dawn back down to Cambridge because she wanted to be with her school friends when she opened her GCSE results. The other’s daughter had her on-line password lined up and planned to log in on the dot at 10.00am to get her details. Finger nails chewed to the bone. Hen, it transpired had no intention of traipsing back to Rugby, nor had she come to Norfolk equipped with her log-in password or a telephone number to call. When asked how she was going to get her results ……“Why would I be in a rush to find out?” she asked. She is a frustrating child as you may have gathered, but once you get used to her….in the overall scheme of things, interestingly stress free. OK. Not too many A*’s here, but you gotta love it.