A for Effort or should that be an E ?

Not for the first time am I sat behind a mile high pile of school reports for eldest son.

Having agreed it was time to move on I am reluctantly clinging to the handrail of the past. It is like lancing a boil.

I have a shredder in front of me and so far it has guzzled all of the reports ( and there are many) from the Education Psychologist, Consultant Paediatric Physiotherapist,  Developmental Sensory Integration Specialist, Consultant Paediatric neurologist, Developmental Delay Syndrome Specialist ... so many 'ists' I have lost count.

The years 1997 - 2014 , from Nursery to Sixth Form College have been hard to put it mildly. 

The bin bag of shredded paper, ready to be recycled into combustible bricks is full and I expect the flames to leap high into the night when we eventually throw a lit match into the chiminea.

Good Riddance.

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