Piranha, Deep Sea World

Well that's another annual Activities Day over. 32 pupils taken out and entertained for seven hours.

This was our first port (ha ha) of call and although I took lots of photos in the underwater tunnel, I think I like this one of a lone, lurking piranha the best.

These fellas were upstairs in a chamber of their own. They always make me smile because they bring back a memory of a pupil I once taught. The first time I saw the piranhas after I started teaching him, I realised that they looked exactly like one another - both the boy and the fish having slightly protruding lower jaws, and dark, expressionless circular, bulging eyes. And in that instant a phrase came immediately into my mind. For the boy's forename and surname began with the initial T, and my brain looked at these fish and suddenly spurted out: "A Tankful of Terry Taylors" (I've changed the lad's real name here by the way, but you get the idea). So I think of that every time I come here, and I think of the boy every time I see a piranha anywhere else too. He was a pleasant lad, so it's not a bad thing to recall him, though admittedly, it's perhaps a weird reason to remember a pupil for!