i-eye Day 97: - Glimpses

of summer continue. I don't know what these flowers are but they always put on a magnificent display right at the end of the summer.

Lizzie and I sauntered around our beloved Greenhead Park this morning; I must say the park is looking sorry for itself, a little unloved, with weeds around the boating lake and litter floating miserably in it. There are still barriers waiting to be collected from the fair, and a large green area has been cordoned off all year while the children's play area is reconstructed - they didn't get it finished for summer, and now they are saying that come parts of it are not fit for children so will have to be demolished!

I know money is short and funds are needed for more urgent matters but it still makes me sad. Beautiful public spaces are good for the soul.

Sarah enjoyed the first day of her new animal care course. I have a bit of work to do to convince them that she still needs to study functional maths despite having passed maths GCSE over a year ago - further evidence of how education has become an exercise in box ticking - so what if a child can't read a bus timetable or work out what change they need in a shop, they've got the GCSE so that box is ticked. It's a funding issue of course, not down to the individual tutors, who must feel like they are banging their heads against a daily brick wall.

That was a moany old Blip!