It's that time of year again...

Summer! Or as close as we in the UK get to it.  That can only mean it's that time of year again....Summer Term

It sends a shiver down my spine - sports day, summer fairs, school trips, raffles, school plays, prizes, donations the list seems to go on and on during this term. Not a week goes by without a coloured sheet of paper being waved in my face by 'middle son' saying "letter from school for you".

Now the fact that it isn't in a brown envelope addressed to me personally makes me feel better but when I read the sheet I just know it is going to involve me sourcing something or paying something.

Now I am not being a Bah Humbug about it as I have been in the position of being on a school committee and having to find willing helpers. I know how hard that can be.

This year I have to applaud the idea's I have seen for our summer fair.  With the economy the way it is, they are certainly looking at alternative forms of fund raising.  We are having a 'Most amusing fruit or vegetable' competition, not for a prize but for the glory!  Now that's worth going to the Fair just to view what gets handed in to be judged and no doubt end up with a lighter purse at the end !

So I would like to know what the weirdest thing you have been asked to donate, find or make to raise funds for a school event..

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