Study leave begins

Older son now on study leave. He got up at 11.00am despite numerous wake up calls. Now downstairs probably engaged in his project of reading Wikipedia from beginning to end. Or playing Championship Manager.

Yesterday, he took an old computer apart. What for? No reason. Just painstakingly took it to bits. Each time he extricated a bit, he brought it up to me proudly:

"This is a motherboard".

"Here's the hard drive".

Oh he was so proud of himself. He piled all the bits up into a tower and looked at them with awe.

But he says maybe I can use the hard drive for backing up my stuff. He has ordered an adaptor for the connection with my credit card details which are saved on their computer for vital itunes and pizza purchases.

If it works, his study leave will have produced something good.

Also, this tinkering around makes me feel more comfortable about his recent choice of engineering as a degree subject.

Study leave isn't meant to be a holiday

1045am. Older daughter not in school but in bed. She isn't on study leave yet but will be from next week as her A levels begin in a few weeks. But the holiday spirit in which my children take study leave seeems to have set in early.

Yesterday, older son came in from school cheering and hitting high fives and saying "yessssssssssss". Why? Because he is now on study leave (his A/Ss start today) so reckons the fun begins now.

Do other children take study leave in the same spirit? My two eldest are both pretty clever, so they know they don't have to work too hard. But this endless BBC sports-wikipedia-Championship Manager-US-soap-operas fest just seems crazy.

Is it my fault they are so lazy? Probably.