School's Out
I was back at our SoundTown school - Elgin High - this week for the end of year prize-giving ceremony. As I said in my speech, I can't believe our year's association with the school is almost at an end. The time has flown.
When I last visited Elgin, the town was in uproar because the council was planning to merge Elgin High with Elgin Academy and create one large Superschool. That plan seems to have been abandoned and now there will be two new schools built for the town.
Gary Robertson, a former pupil of EHS, handed out the silverware and certificates and probably raised a few eyebrows when he admitted that, as a teenager, he couldn't wait to leave school. A could see a few of the current pupils nod their heads in agreement.
Meanwhile today is the last day at primary school for my own two children. Our relocation to Inverness means they've been saying goodbye to classmates and teachers and they both received huge cards with all sorts of good luck messages written inside. Reading the messages it was all I could do to stop from blubbering.
I dabbed at my eyes with a tissue and said it was hayfever.
