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| White Queen |
Something I’m ashamed of – I’ve given the twins quite a few
lifts to school over the years. It’s not
the distance – it’s the huge schoolbags, not to mention the saxophone.
Even last night, Perran called me from school.
“Just why should I come and pick you up, Perran?”
“Because I’m on antibiotics for tonsillitis, and I’ve been
revising for hours and I’ve got an exam tomorrow.”
Any excuse.
And now, this morning, the final dilemma. It is a fact that pupils are more acute after
a morning walk. That’s doubly important
just before an early exam, and this morning Carenza has Latin Lit and Perran
has Statistics. They should walk.
But it is also the official “last day” with fancy dress and
an assembly of mock awards and nostalgia, all on top of the exams. So here they are in front of me dressed
respectively as the white queen and a playing card soldier from Alice in
Wonderland. It is raining and we are a
mile from school. I have a vision of
Perran’s playing card costume slumping into papier mache around him while he
glares at his exam paper.
I don’t know what to do for the
best.
But the twins know –
"We'd rather walk and be alert for the exams, Mum."
So I grab 2 bin
bags and stuff the playing card costume in them. Perran and Carenza put on their raincoats. We pray for focus in the exams and off they go.
Leaving me to stuff my warmest
duvet into another bin bag, ready for a weekend of glamping.
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