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GEE WHIZ, X FACTOR AND COD FLU

My son's best mate has just passed his driving test and is therefore driving himself to school in his mum's car. On Friday evening my son called me and said - "mum, quick - come outside - we're just about to drive up our road - come out and see us". Well. What a sight to behold. Frankly I'm surprised they're happy to be seen in broad daylight (although he won't let me show you the photo) - three huge teenage boys appeared oozing out of the windows in the smallest car I've ever seen in my life. It was like a Tonka Toy. Hilarious. It was going SO slowly up the road it almost looked as if their legs were being used to propel it. It was a teeny weeny blue "Gee Whiz" - the eco friendly electric car. You don't need petrol or have to pay any congestion charge and obviously I'm going to keep my mouth shut about the zero street cred because it only goes up to 50 miles per hour (max) and my son said that sometimes going up a hill it goes backwards, which means that hopefully there's a lot less chance of them hurting themselves in one of those. I've had a lovely children's weekend watching my youngest score a goal in his football match today and just doing stuff together. My oldest son didn't have any sport this weekend for the first time in ages. Normally he plays rugby on a Saturday and football on a Sunday, but he's injured. So he just blobbed around doing not very much. He was meant to stay at a friend's last night but I got a text at 1am saying "Are u at home? Can i have a few people to stay as a girl broke something reeeeeeaaaaaally expensive at B's house by accident so we had to leave". Turns out one of the girls sat on a table that broke and an ornament smashed that was worth thousands of pounds and a picture fell off the wall at the same time. Holy shit if that's true. What a nightmare. Really bad. We all sat and watched the nations favourite guilty pleasure together tonight - "The X Factor". Personally I thought most of the contestants sounded flat yesterday (perhaps that's just George Michael songs in general) and I'm pleased that Danni had the balls to see John and Edward off. My daughter was apoplectic with fear at the thought that Ollie might not make it. She loves him. Apparently "COD flu" is the latest virus to hit schools - it would be interesting to do a survey to see whether there was an obvious dip in attendance - according to my son, when the new "Call Of Duty" game came out at midnight last week, loads of kids stayed up all night playing it and didn't go to school the next day......how many people kept finding blood being spattered all over their television -isn't it a worry when a game can have that sort of effect on so many teenagers?

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