Double Fantasy League

The Schools Fantasy League competition starts a couple of months into the football season, so everyone can enter once term starts. Rachel's school has run its own for the last few years so she's got a team again and is joined this year by Thomas's own entry. This means that Thomas's usual level of interest in who plays for which Premier league team, scores and results (considerable) has ratchetted up to a level bordering on obsession. Thomas is, of course, currently seven points ahead of his mother and sits 4th in the overall school table. Rachel is languishing in 12th. It is, however, a marathon not a sprint (or a Snickers).

Here's Thomas's team as it currently stands. He's already shown the level of ruthlessness required to succeed in football management by dispensing with the services of two underperforming defenders (Patrice Evra and Kolo Toure if you're interested).



















Rachel's team looks like this, obviously once Darren Bent (still got to have one ex Town player in there) and Drogba find their shooting boots she'll be zooming up the league.



Further updates as the season progresses, assuming I'm not driven mad by answering constant questions on the fitness, form and price of Premier League players.

Day tripper

Thomas recently went on a trip to the British Museum with his class at school because they'd been learning about Ancient Greece. This is what he wrote about it and some of the pictures he took.

"Yesterday we went to the British Museum at 9.00 am the coach arrived. The first building we saw was Canary Wharf. Then we saw the O2 building, a statue if Winston Churchill, Gherkin, London Eye, HMS Belfast, Embankment, River Thames, Downing Street, Pudding Lane, Changing of the guards, St. Pauls Cathedral, Monument, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben. Then at last about 10 minutes later we arrived at the museum. The first thing we saw was a statue of tutankhamun's head. We saw some very strange statues. We saw loads of bones some of them were very disgusting.

For lunch I had a packet of mini cheddars, a frube, peanut butter sandwich, berry biscuits, an apple, skips, a fruit shoot and that is it. I bought a wooden sword and chocolate bar, at the children's shop. Then we went home."