Gwen went to Bornholm with her class from Thursday to the following Tuesday. She enjoyed it enormously and recommends that we make a visit as a family. She took over a hundred photos and you can see 11 on our photosite (link is on the newsletter not here as I don’t want to make it too public). On the other hand there were several incidents of varying seriousness including that Gwen received a black eye. Therefore we collected our daughter looking as though she had been in a boxing match. Nobody said anything to us either at the time it occurred or when they returned to our care so I’m afraid that we have been up to the school to complain and phoned both the headmaster and one of Gwen’s teacher after a class session in which it seemed that Gwen’s incident was described as an accident which it most certainly was not. We now wait for the school to act as I don’t think it can be good for Gwen to have her parents continually haranguing the staff.
Meanwhile it was Tony’s birthday last Monday. We had decided to postpone it when we thought he would be home very late that night from Greenland but as we all now know he returned home early. However Gwen wasn’t there so there was still a reason to postpone it. When they discovered at work that Tony had come home early they organised a surprise birthday party on the day in the woods below Kalø¸ where we had a barbecue dinner. That went very well.
The barbecue meal quality was surpassed only by the birthday meal we finally had on Friday at Grenaa where the food was ten cuts above what we normally experience in this part of Denmark.