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In which The Boy gets published!
« on: September 03, 2011, 02:40:00 PM »
Mrs NIck informs me that the Boy has won some sort of National Poetry competition  eeek:  It is being published in a collection in time for Christmas  eeek:
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2011, 02:46:54 PM »
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2011, 05:00:36 PM »
The boy's going far. His FIRST publication  :thumbsup:
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2011, 05:10:24 PM »
Oh well done him!  :thumbsup:

Game on for you then ...  ;)
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2011, 05:10:42 PM »
QUite predictably Mrs Nick has NOT sent me a copy of this poem  evil:
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2011, 05:41:09 PM »
Equally predicable is that the "prize" is that his poem will be published in a book of poems featuring all the "winners" from schools in the area and all the parents will be coerced into buying a copy...... the schools getting a rake-off.

Sorry but I have that tee-shirt. noooo:
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2011, 05:43:07 PM »
Oh ...... And I have the book to prove it.
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2011, 05:49:07 PM »
You are right

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/1163112-Really-cross-with-school-Young-Writers/AllOnOnePage

Mrs Nick has been duped and I followed her tracks. What utter cvnts
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2011, 05:57:36 PM »
They caught us out when the THW was in year 5.

ISBN 1-84460-056-4 Edited by Simon Harwin
Published by Young Writers, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Peterborough PE2 9JX

Book cost £15.99 but how the fvck do you say no to a proud 9 year old who is being praiised by the Head Teacher and told her poem will be published in a "Real Book" because it was so good?
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2011, 06:00:33 PM »
I will maintain praise but plan to call the skool on MOnday for some bollocking type stuff
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2011, 06:03:43 PM »
Exactly what we did.

The THW has only recently worked out that it was a con.


Oh and they wrote to us saying they had "reserved 5 copies so that the 'Nains and Taids' could have copies" each.
Nains and Taids are Grandmas and Grandpas in Welsh.

I told them to fvck off and only bought one copy for the child's sake .... Meanwhile we kept quiet and lavished praise.
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2011, 08:56:51 PM »
Also been there, done that.
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2011, 08:59:04 PM »
I told Mrs NIck earlier. She was not pleased  scared2:
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2011, 09:03:04 PM »
With you or with the school ?
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Re: In which The Boy gets published!
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2011, 09:04:26 PM »
With the skool, and also with me for telling her  noooo:
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