It’s been a big week of school events for all of us, I think. I’m looking forward to posting a few reflections on things that I’ve been storing up for a while, but in the meantime I wanted to share with you all one of the highlights of my week.
In the library at Walthamstow Academy today some of the Year 8 and 9 students found out that I used to be a songwriter, so they challenged me to come up with a song about biscuits on the spot.
I think I passed their test – just. Here is as much as I can remember of my efforts:

I just woke up from a very bad dream.
I was walking up the aisle with a custard cream.
Everyone was smiling and I tried to look festive,
But it’s hard when you really love a chocolate digestive.
The custard cream took off its veil. Should I kiss it? Could I risk it?
Spend the rest of my days with a stale, old biscuit?
I couldn’t face it. Had to go back to my true love, so pretty,
So I admitted, ‘Sorry, darling, I’m in love with Miss McVitie.’

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biscuits, Joe Craig, poem