Hot thoughts

Well, it's been a warm one so I'm rather glad of having short skirts on this week as they really do help keep cool and avoid that sticky clammy feeling that's so so ikky.

We've not long before school breaks up which did help with Early Monday (UK Time) with England's World Cup match that put them through to the Quarter Finals facing Norway this weekend.

Some schools laid on either full or highlights coverage of the match and used it as a springboard for work in English and Art given much of the formal syllabus can't be touched with the imminent closure for Summer Hols. 

I did read some old comics while trying to stay cool and one cartoon strip I recall was Little Plum which was an attempt to make what today I'd call First Nations people specifically children look universal in a world where much we were fed, usually from American sources showed them as savages, justifying land confiscation and much ill treatment. 

It would be easy today to criticize the usage of language and the like and in more recent returns such things are put aright but at least you could feel more empathy with Little Plum and his chums than we had on Westerns.