On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:05:02 GMT, older molly
wrote:


But you don't understand. Today's children are not tough and hardy as
we were. They are delicate things to be mollycoddled, and pampered, not
allowed to climb trees or play near dangerous holly, or collect nasty
dangerous conkers or walk to school in all weathers like we did.Poor
little sods, they are missing a lot of fun.

Don't fool yourself

"Two men and a 12-year-old boy made a 999 call from a mobile phone
when they found themselves in dangerous conditions in severe gale
force nine winds a quarter of a mile off Whitby's pier ends."

and
"A SCARBOROUGH school was a "scene of devastation" after
vandals smashed windows in eight classrooms and set fire to a storage
shed.
About 100 pupils had to be sent home from Hinderwell yesterday and it
took a team of cleaners and teachers most of the day to clear up the
shards of glass scattered in classrooms and hall.
It is the latest in a string of attacks at the school and headteacher
Philip Snowdon said it was one of the most devastating.
Today Mr Snowdon said that security camera footage from CCTV cameras
had identified two Hinderwell School pupils and two older boys as the
culprits."