September 25, 2008 • 11:55 am
Someone has contacted me to ask me to encourage you to take part in a survey. They say:
The study involves learning more about parents’ attitudes towards child nutrition, obesity and food choices offered to children at school.
This blog has been selected based on the overall content of your postings and the comments posted by your readers – so your readers’ participation would be very important. The survey findings will allow us to learn more about parents’ attitudes towards these important topics.
I’m quite excited by this! Not since the Evening Standard contacted me in desperation has my help been sought…
My problem is that:
- the survey that they want you to fill in seems to relate to the American market
- it’s for a potato products manufacturer and although the intention seems unbiased I’m not sure
But, hey, it’s up to you: Kids & Food: What do You Think? I’ve had a quick bimble through and if I qualified to fill it in then I would do (no kids so I can’t).
Not wishing to lead the jury, but I know what my response would be…. homemade packed lunches full of pretentious yummy mummy organics, no to school dinners until I can be sure that chips, mini pizzas, ‘chicken’ nuggets (or any kind of non free-range chicken) etc. are not on the menu.
Further than that:
- school dinner menus should be published a week in advance to help prevent clashes with home cooking (like they do in France)
- schools should not be allowed to purchase from food services companies such as brakes bros. etc.
- potatos would not count as a vegetable choice
However, I don’t think I’d go as far as banning jacket potatoes and am relieved to see that that this story was rubbish.
Although all of this is based on personal prejudice it’s not from a position of complete ignorance, my mum was a primary school bursar who had to outsource and then re-house school dinners and Himself works in the food service industry.
Filed under: Children, Cooking, Family, Food, PR, Shoes
January 17, 2008 • 9:23 am
Writing about http://esales.roh.org.uk/christmas/video/nutcracker.aspx
Went to see this last night. So pretty! I am of course a Sugar Plum Fairy myself – have I ever told you the story?
I was, aged 6 or so, practicising before ballet class by ‘pirouetting’ down the hall. Unfortunately, I twirled down the hall and straight through the glass front door. And emerged, on the other side without a scratch.
Sadly I was forced to give up a promising career in ballet because I couldn’t reconcile the demands of weekly classes with the necessity of watching Grange Hill.
Filed under: Bicknacre, Children, Christmas, Family
December 7, 2007 • 12:49 pm
Follow up to http://caseyleaver.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/intranet-distraction-oubay/
You can almost picture the festive scene….
Enter small child home from school with mud artfully splashed up back of trousers and trailing satchell behind them.
Small child: Mu-um, oh yeah, we was s’posed to get costumes for the play…
Anyone got a child’s monkey outfit for ages 3 – 5 years I can borrow or buy for my daughter’s show next Wednesday?
Star outfit. Does anyone have one that I can buy? For children’s nativity play. Asda did them for a fiver but sold out.
Filed under: Children, Christmas, Clothes, Internal Communications, Work
December 6, 2007 • 12:26 pm
We went to see The Golden Compass last night. It was fast-paced (no surprise given the length) and visually beautiful – but the script was a bit clumsy in places:
It’s Ma Costa, Head of the Gyptians and Billy Costa’s mother….
But I was left wondering where I could get an Armoured Bear.
Himself suggested that I could dress up Sprack in some of his old shin pads to get the effect.
I’m not sure she’ll go for it.
Filed under: Cat, Children, Christmas, Films, Sprackle
December 7, 2005 • 10:01 am
October 4, 2005 • 9:03 am
Overheard this morning whilst waiting at the bus stop:
Boy 1: You fancy Kayleigh
Boy 2: No I don’t
Boy 1: Yeah you do, and you fancy Katy
Boy 2: No I don’t, I fancy someone else actually but I can’t be bothered to talk about it.
Boy 1: You do, you fancy both of them
Boy2: You’re just saying stupid stuff now
Boy 1: Are you calling me stupid?
Boy 2: No, I’m just saying that you’re talking about stuipd stuff. Anyway, you can’t talk, you went out with Katy.
Boy 1:
Yeah, but only for 2 hours… …and it was mess-about. I don’t even like
her. You so do fancy Kayleigh anyway. Why is it that whenever I see you
walking on Indistinguishable Road you’re trailing after Helen and her?
Boy 2: Because you always jab me with pens and stuff.
At this point they get on the bus.
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Filed under: Bus, Children
