Yup! Well, I haven't made the spaghetti yet, but I'm assuming if I chuck a load of colouring into the cooking water (am using paste so it's quite concentrated) the pasta will absorb it as it cooks.
Tbh I think my approach is partly innate reballion against my uber-practical mum. She was/is great but practicalities always come first and I can't really remember her doing anything remotely wild when I was growing up (she did let me bury her up to her neck in sand once).
Obviously I manage the practical stuff, but I'm not naturally efficient and all the school rules and routines drive me up the wall. I had a phase towards the end of the summer tern when the teaching assistant from her class was constantly on the phone cos we'd forgotten something and it was the most stupid, trivial stuff. I think because I work 5 minutes away they think I can just come and go as I please.
For instance, they made a huge fuss about her not having a jacket on a sunny day purely because it was forecast to rain and they were on a trip. Then on another similar day, they phoned up because she didn't have a cap for sports day even though it was forecast to, and did, thunderstorm so the whole bloody thing was rained off.
I know technically I should be on top of this stuff (moreso the cap) but seriously walking from a coach in the car park to a castle and back again in a shower is hardly going to kill anybody!