'Summer' Holidays - you're having a laugh!

Does anyone else look out of their window, check the forecast, listen to the latest August weather predictions and wonder why the hell the Government persist in keeping the 6 week summer holiday during August?

Our summer vacation, both in terms of its length and its placement, has more to do with the historical need to employ child labour in gathering in the harvests than it does to weather patterns in the 21st century.

Indeed, year on year we now swelter during June and early July whilst still at school, only to endure week after week of grey skies during the summer recess!

There, that's off my chest then....