Ups and downs 2

"A DfES spokesman said: "The government is committed to ensuring that children are provided with the healthy food and nutrients they require during the school day, not just to aid their physical health, but to ensure they can study hard and behave well."

Now that strikes me as rather creepy. Compulsory food to change behaviour. But am I being over sensitive? After all children will have the whole of their adult life to be autonomous beings; do they really need to be treated as such before the age of 18?

Son is already smarter than either of us; good job we deprived him of fish oil (and fruit and vegetables and a private education) or we would be crushed by inferiority complexes by now.

We are getting new next-door neighbours in a few days time- young and rich, apparently (they are buying the house outright and will be parking their Porsche and Freelander and whatever the other car was in front of it.) I shall miss the old ones (older and rich, also with a Porsche and Freelander and other cars but very nice with it. Solihull doesn't do variety.). Wonder if they will like the Green Thing? Unlike the old neighbours they have no dog so they will get the cats whether they like it or not, I suspect.

I shall report back when they move in.