Busyknitter

S came home with what I think was supposed to be an easy piece of homework. He had to find and cut out 6 pictures of celebrities, paste them into his workbook and describe them in French.

Now, we are actually pretty strict about homework help. We’ll try and explain a concept that he hasn’t quite grasped or we’ll discuss an idea with him to stimulate his thinking. But help him with the actual work? No way. I did my fair share of boring crap when I was at school, now it’s his turn.

We took pity on him tonight though . It wasn’t the French, that’s easy peasy. But find 6 pictures of celebrities? Cruel.

Here is the list of publications we scoured
- Today’s Guardian
- The local free sheet
- The Economist
- Easy Living
- My mum’s Oldie
- My mum’s Home and Country (the Womens’ Institute magazine)
- Some back copies of the Sainsbury’s magazine
- Health Service Journal (piccie of Patricia Hewitt anyone?)
- Public Finance (we were getting really desperate by this stage)

And here is the final roll call of celebrities that S has used
1. Tony Blair (Guardian)
2 Madonna (Guardian TV page)
3. Princess Anne (Home and Country)
4. George Best (Guardian - taken from a picture of the crowd at last night’s Old Trafford game)
5. Nelson Mandela (Guardian - photo of a painting being unveiled somewhere)
6. The Queen (a stamp)

The whole thing was a complete pain in the whatsits. Perhaps I’m going to have to take out a subscription to OK Magazine to support my son’s education!!!