The last week of the holidays...

... and count_tygath is here for the week. We've had a fun time so far, and for once, the weather actually seems to be on our side. Well, more than usually, I guess. Well, it is not snowing, so that is a good sign.

We've been to the Scotland Street School Museum yesterday, and apart from the fact that those make me always feel wistful and dodgy because old school buildings look so pretty, with all those little desks arranged in reverence around the shrine of knowledge, the desk of the teacher - the other visitors were what made it interesting, not the thought of how wonderful it must have been to teach in these.

Coming from the Girl's Cloak room -  there were dess-up school uniforms, Crocky and I had to try them out -we met a family who was visiting the museum with their grandma. This woman actually wanted to convince us that corporal punishment was a good idea. She had been punished during her own school days and apparently got stuck with the belief that it is very character building and all in all a good idea. She told us that one day a teacher smacked her wrist with a tawse so hard that it bled - the WRIST, for heaven's sake! That is so dangerous! -  and her mother just had a look at it and went "stop bawling, you'll have deserved it!"

"The WAY the children talk to the teachers today! The pure CHEEK! I wouldn't want to become a teacher today! No wonder there is no discipline when there is no real punishment and no real discipline anymore!"

I don't know what fascinates me more - her apparent state of denial, or the fact that there really are people who are in favour of corporal punishment around...

Even in spite of the fact that there are a few people who deserve to be smacked round the head - who would WANT corporal punishment be reintroduced for non-kinky reasons?!

PS: I bought the boots I lusted after. They are gorgeous!