To think Argyll and Bute Council are a gang of morons

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www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/15/girl-photos-school-meals-blog

So incompetent your couldn't make it up

is this the lassie blogs about minging dinners?
read it and think aye mine were greoss too at school

I think the most interesting thing is the international aspect to this blog, and the way all the children are writing in with pictures of their own school dinners, comparing notes. I hope the council give in, so this can continue. The dinner ladies are being a bit irrational tbh, from the sound of things.

Next time Michael Gove is invoking Finland as an educational powerhouse, perhaps he might want to look at the free lunches children get there, and think very hard about how we need to think about the whole child, not just the bit at the top that recites tables and poetry.

I went to an A&B school and the food was ok...

Did the Council try to ban the photos or the whole blog ?

Under what authority did they have the power to ban the blog ?

Just heard the little girl's Dad interviewed on R4: he sounds sensible, rational, well-grounded - but VERY English!!!

Wonder if that had anything to do with the alacrity with which the SNP Council tried to stamp on their whipper-snapper critic?

just looked at the blog most of the meals look vile pasta with pineapple?? and the portion size wouldnt feed my 6 year old the pics coming from other countries all far outdo them

Her just giving page is up to £45k, was about 2k this morning

They only banned the pictures. Martha and her dad decided they couldn't do the blog without pictures.

They have no authority to stop the blog.

Couldn't be bothered reading the thread and couldn't give a flying duck. Who cares. Seriously, who gives a shit. I'm fed up listening about it.

I think that if Martha's dad is wise, he will not let her resume the blog until they give in over the photos, and they are having a meeting about that next Thursday acording to the Beeb. If she does come back with just graphics and lunches from around the world the idiot apparatchiks Council will say that she can sustain the blog without pix.

An amazing achievement by Martha - like others, I am now glued to the page ticker on her blog and the refresh button on her Just Giving page.

Well done Argyll & Bute councillors. You have enabled a 9 year old girl to raise £45,000 (and rising) for children who will benefit from an education far more than you obviously did.

wendy I doubt that tbh, I don't think they would want to annoy such a big proportion if their electorate, there are a lot of English people here.

I very much doubt it Wendy. That part of Argyll, in particular, has many English sounding people, very much settled and part of the community.

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Great minds Casper

I am not sure they actually have the right to stop her taking pictures. There is no law against taking pictures of food you are eating, whether it's at school or not. Nor should there be.

schools can and do restrict use of camera,pretty common
i suppose the negotiation is how to maintain blog but not impinge upon other individuals privacy

Really highlights how much better meals are over the rest of the world.

Well done to Martha for raising this money :)

Taking pictures of potato croquettes and cups of the legendary carrot and coriander soup does not seem to me to be an infringement of anyone's liberty, but treating a nine year old in the same way as a plane spotter photographing sensitive military installations might be.

I lived in a rural part of Scotland for most of my adult life. In the local SNP branch, the chairman was English-born, as were several of their most active members. The secretary was Welsh-born.

And I'm sorry, ComposHat, but when you say "The council say their meals are nutritionally balanced - that is the most absurd thing I've heard. I live in Scotland and NO-ONE eats a balanced diet" - that's pretty absurd, too. Most of us do not live on Irn Bru and deep-fried Mars bars.

ComposHat talk about a blanket statement! How offensive can you get??

bucketbetty Stupid name, stupid comment - you obviously do care, one way or the other, or you would not have bothered to post!! And all of those others who have commented clearly think that this is a worthwhile thread; so hop off back to your bolt-hole with A&B Council SNP group...

Queen & Sconetta, it is exactly the prevalence of "English-sounding people" in that part of Scotland that makes the SNP so keen to slag them off!

New post on her blog

My DD (10yo) was so indignant about this today that she emailed Argyll & Bute council to protest.

The school was happy about her taking photos of her meals, it was the council which objected - and specifically because she was photographing the food - nothing to do with individuals privacy.

NettoSuperstar tell me about their housing dept.

wendy I live in A&B and trust me, even the SNP know what side their bread is buttered.

The council might have dealt with this better, but the meals are actually ok. In fact, they've been carefully chosen over the past few years, as A&B have changed their policy regarding healthy eating over the past few years.

There are baked potatoes with various fillings available every day as a stand by. Then there are two choices of main meals, along with soup and/or a pudding every day.

Children are allowed to put what they like on their plate. She's obviously had days when she doesn't fancy anything. What do the catering staff do? Make her take food she won't eat, or just let her take what she will eat?