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ds has got a strange present from school...don't want to be ungrateful but.

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fridgealwaysfull · 20/12/2013 18:10

ds is in year 6 and in his school the PTFA buy each child a book for Christmas. He excitedly opened his present earlier ' A Photographic Guide to British and European Fungi'.

I know it's the thought that counts and all that.... but really?

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HECTheHeraldAngelsSing · 20/12/2013 18:11

Mine got a handy guide to wild mushrooms one year.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 20/12/2013 18:11

My son would enjoy that book, but realise it's not for everyone! Did they all get the same book, or were they aiming to personalise? Maybe he got muddled up with the fungi enthusiast!

wonderstuff · 20/12/2013 18:12

That is strange.

HECTheHeraldAngelsSing · 20/12/2013 18:12

Oh!
ha!
I dont know what I thought you wrote but I think its the same book!

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fridgealwaysfull · 20/12/2013 18:16

They all get different books, just seems a very odd book for a 10 year old

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NewtRipley · 20/12/2013 18:16

You sound ungrateful.

YouTheCat · 20/12/2013 18:19

Dd would have been overjoyed with that book tbh.

BuntyPenfold · 20/12/2013 18:55

They buy a job lot cheaply, and then allot the books as they see fit.

timidviper · 20/12/2013 18:56

At about that age my school gave me "The Observer Book of Pond Life". I sometimes wonder if the teacher had more of a sense of humour than I realised

Indith · 20/12/2013 19:02

Dd would love that, she adores mushrooms and would love to learn to forage for them.

CranberrySaucyJack · 20/12/2013 19:03

Maybe your teacher thinks your DS is a fun guy.........?

Embarrassingly crap puns aside, perhaps it came in a mass bundle of non-fiction/educational books and he pulled the short straw.

Tinks42 · 20/12/2013 19:04

Well it is educational if you want to know about mushrooms that is Grin

complexnumber · 20/12/2013 19:06

Fun guy apart.. I think its a great present and really do not understand why you might think otherwise

Coconutty · 20/12/2013 19:07

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Heartbrokenmum73 · 20/12/2013 19:12

It's certainly an odd present, but teachers don't have to give presents and have probably paid for them out of their own pocket, so I think you are being a little unreasonable, but I see your point.

JodieGarberJacob · 20/12/2013 19:16

They would have come in a variety pack of 10. Just pot luck. Help him become a mushroom expert and amaze his friends.

revolvenotevolve · 20/12/2013 19:16

Odd unless he has previously shown an interest in the subject.

JodieGarberJacob · 20/12/2013 19:18

The teacher wouldn't have had anything to do with it, it's the PTFA. They would have wrapped all the books and stuck a named sticker on it. Completely random.

gettingeasiernow · 20/12/2013 19:19

Have just asked ds, who has no previous with funghi. First he said it was quite nice, then said it depends what everyone else got.

FredFredGeorge · 20/12/2013 20:18

Completely inappropriate, forcing you to take him on expensive overseas trip to explore his undoubted future fungi enthusiasm. It should've just been a book on local fungi!

Sakathu · 20/12/2013 20:24

I'd have loved it. Books are bo

Sakathu · 20/12/2013 20:25

Posted early- books are brilliant :)

LynetteScavo · 20/12/2013 20:27

DS1 would have really like a book on Fungi.

DS2 would have found it...odd.

soverylucky · 20/12/2013 20:27

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OutragedFromLeeds · 20/12/2013 20:36

That is a weird present! Definitely. I don't believe anyone who says otherwise. Ten year old mushroom enthusiasts must be in the minority?