User blog:SmudgyHollz/Thank StarClan for the Tattie Holidays.

Wow. I basically haven't edited for a whole eight weeks. I'm pretty sure that's a new record of laziness for me! However, I have been checking up here at least once a day, so I haven't really been gone. Just haven't had time to do anything. This term has been mental. I've had ridiculous amounts of homework; for English, I have to do forty hours homework for a three minute presentation! What?! How does that even work?

Skived off Monday this week! Yey! Kind of ruined my perfect attendance though... I was down at the West Coast with family. Watched my dad steal a boat, which was pretty fun. There was also an awkward moment involving a lady with a lost dog. I was walking through a forest with my uncles when we heard a weird screaming noise. We assumed it was just some guy messing around and so we just ignored it. The noises had been going on for a while when Gav decided that it would be really funny to scream back. So the next few times we heard the guy, Gav replied. Then we turned a corner and met a middle aged lady. Turns out, there was no guy trying to scare us. It was just a lady with a very high voice, calling for her lost dog 'Roley'.

Anyway, this was just a short blog to say that I haven't forgotten about you guys. It's the tattie holidays next week and I have nothing to do, so I'll be back. By the way, in case you were wondering, the tattie holidays are the equivalent to October Holidays/Fall Break. Tattie is the Scottish word for potato. Kids used to take time off school around this time of year and earn money by helping the farmers pull up the potatoes from the fields, hence the tattie holidays.

So, are you guys excited for winter? I am! It's suddenly got really cold and frosty here. The leaves are turning orange. We just had our emergency snow closure practice... I've been told that it's going to start snowing in around two weeks! Can't wait! I hope this winter will be a proper winter, not like last year. We got zero snow closures. Not even one. Instead, we got a wind day and a day off because the school had no water (or heating, can't remember which). It should be like the one we had three years ago. Snow up to my bedroom window and about four weeks off school!! That was great - apart from living off of tinned soup because we couldn't get out the house to buy food...