Summer hols reflections

Pretty much every educational establishment has shut for the summer hols although unlike the past some of us recall this no longer means the school is not in use.

For instance my local junior school, the one I did actually attend does have the breakfast and after school clubs running for working or "vulnerable" families even though they are not undertaking formal education.

So far in I have seen few school children about which suggests they are either away or plugged in to their electrics which these days doesn't mean the tv, games console or a personal computer but their mobile phones eating up the data allowances too.

It's also worth saying something I touched on elsewhere which is children don't wear uniform 24/7 even though we see them as schoolboys because they do other stuff like play and so may have sports shorts and t shirts on if not actual football strips if having a kickabout in the park.

Sometimes I think we forget that as adult little boys or schoolboys who for whatever personal reasons are emulating that life we do not have to either so for instance I may wear a t shirt and a plain shortish pair of sports shorts if out going around in the park.

You do look more blended in doing that when school is out than in your full uniform although there is no reason of itself not to have your grey shorts on as if you may of been visiting a mate rather than with blazer and cap.

We're not avatars, we're schoolboys of adult chronological ages.