"Insect Day"

[mrsbabookaloo]

The letters we get from nursery - and a lot of the notices on the walls there - are often littered with errors, which I try to benignly ignore on the basis that it won't do dd any harm, but I had to share this one.

"The nursery will be closed on Friday 21 November for an Insect Day."

Hmm, I thought, are they getting pest control in to deal with some cockroaches?

...No, it's an inset day.

[Threadworrm]

That's brilliant. I'll never be able to hear of inset days again without imagining all the teachers setting off with jam jars and magnifying glasses, going on a jolly bug hunt.

[OrmIrian]

DS#2 always insists it's Insect Day anyway so now I know he's right!

[GrimmaTheNome]

At least it didn't turn out to be a sinister "In Sect day"

[WhatFreshHellIsThis]

I thought that they were called Insect Days when I first heard of them

In my defence, DS isn't school age yet, i heard my sister talking about one and misheard.

weird name, anyway!

[stealthsquiggle]

Perhaps you should turn up with DD dressed as a ladybird ?

What is it about 21 November - the entire country seems to have picked that as their inset day?!

[RustyBear]

Better than the "Incest Day" someone's DD recently reported her teachers were having....

[mrsbabookaloo]

Incest day!!

[Tortington]

my ds thought it was insect day - and they were allowed home so that they could get rid of all the insects in school.

awww...that was when he was cute..

[SoupDragon]

DS1 used to call them Bugs Days because he thought it was insect day.