Christmas Dinner Drama
My wife has built quite a reputation over the past few years as the kids favourite school dinner `aunt' at Swaffham Bulbeck Primary School. The mums, dads and teachers are amazed at how she can get the little ones to eat sprouts (baby cabbage) and broccoli (trees) with the same enthusiasm as pizza and chips.
It was the week before Christmas and in Margaret's usual way she was encouraging the toddlers to enjoy their dinner by describing the day's menu as Shepherds Pie made with `real shepherds'. As the queue reduced, one little tot with a quivering lip and a heart breaking tear in her eye said to Margaret that she was going to be a shepherd at the nativity play, thinking on her feet Margaret managed to find some Three Kings Hot Pot from the other side of the tin. Problem solved.