In keeping with her longer term ambitions she is spending two weeks as a gofer to the County Archaeologist. This will involve some office work, some cataloguing, a day or two manning an exhibition stand and visits to a number of sites. All in all a good intro to the work that she wishes to do when she finishes Uni.
Her careers co-ordinator at school is livid that she has landed such a position (having previously deemed it to be impossible) and was even more miffed to discover two days ago when she summoned the child to interrogate her about what she would be doing and instructed her to telephone the County Personnel Dept to confirm matters that the THW direct dialled the County Archaeologist from her mobile and said "Hi Fiona, its me, can you confirm to Miss XXXXX that we are all set for next week." Said teacher then discovered that daughter is a member of the Young Archaeologists Club run by the aforementioned Fiona and has been booked by her to deliver a talk on and give a demonstration of Medieval Braiding Techniques. "What do you know about that subject?" she sneered. "Well" said THW "Actually quite a lot" and pulled from her bag a book on the subject "This was written by my God Mother, I helped her with the research ~ we made a lot of the braids used in the costumes by the Globe Theatre company during their last season"
THW reports that teacher then dismissed her from the room without another word. As the dear child put it so sweetly "It's really rather fun to be able to say 'Bollocks' to a teacher and know there is nothing she can do about it"
