» Messing with people's heads

The Wazzock will get you!
I used to teach at a high school in Essex back in the late 90s. Every year we'd take the Yr7s (11-12yr olds) camping for a week. It was a great activity, the whole year group would bond together and we'd have an excuse to have some staff bonding time too!

However, I decided to tell the kids about the Wazzock. Half badger-half Fox that were about in the area. That they'd be out in the campsite at night and could attack them. They'd need their torches and after-dark it was best to stay in their tents. You can see the plan.

Other staff got in on the act and so did a number of parents too.

"I asked my mum what a Wazzock was and she said I was one"........

So 15 large canvas tents, kids eating all sorts of unhealthy snacks that they had squirrelled away and you can guess the keeping tents clean was not on their list of priorities.

So a dark night and we as staff decide to go out and find a tent where we could hear chattering. One of us just runs our fingernails over the canvas. It all goes hush for a while. Talking starts again and then another one decides to run our nails over the canvas. Then we hear screaming from another tent, our tent begins to scream. We run over to hear the kids going "It was in the tent" - "the Wazzocks were in the tent - I felt them". "It has had my crisps".

Next night we find that the kids have been leaving so much rubbish in their tents and it was a campsite that was used a fair bit that the local Grey Squirrel population would visit the tents at night and clean up any food.

We got very little bother and clean tents upon inspection for the rest of the week!
(Sun 15th Jan 2012, 19:26, More)

» Famous people I hate

Look East
If there is one person I can not stand that is Julie Reinger.

www.bbc.co.uk/lookeast/content/articles/2006/12/26/julie_reinger_feature.shtml

She does the weather on BBC Look East. Reasons are is that she thinks she is IT because she also does the odd report on Inside Out. Well Julie I hate to tell you this.

a) You look like you need a good meal
b) Your just a jumped up local weather presenter stuck in a local TV studio-cupboard in a city full of inbreds ie Norwich
c) All your pointless talk comes out as patronising as a nursery school teacher talking to their class "Yes, it has been a lovely day". I know what the past history of the weather has been like. I happen to have been awake during the day.
d) You can't forecast the weather, you get it all from CEEFAX.

Please leave my screen alone.
(Sat 6th Feb 2010, 15:33, More)