The school summer holidays are nearly over and mums everywhere are buying new school uniform for the start of the next academic year.
Kieron has always been very fussy about what he wears to school: Callum preferred black school trousers, so of course black is Kieron's choice and before long, most of his friends were copying him, instead wearing the generalised grey trousers. Kieron's school had Jade green sweatshirts when Kieron first started so there was no choice, but as soon as they brought fleeces out with a zip front Kieron decided that he wanted one of these instead. He gravitated over the next couple of years between sweatshirts and fleeces....the positives of a sweatshirt being that the cuffs are nice to chew...no fluffy bits and as all of Kieron's long-sleeved tops have chewed cuffs, need I say more. However, fleeces have pockets in which to hide all manner of things, from woodlice to conkers to rubbers.
Kieron also decided that he didn't like the standard white polo shirts as soon as Callum started to wear short-sleeve cotton shirts. Black socks because they were Callum's choice; loafers because Callum chose those...the list goes on.
Kieron was due to start Grammar School and was looking forward to wearing a tie and blazer and we'd already decided to make a uniform shopping day into a real outing.
Summer 2010, I went and bought Kieron the blazer to put in his bedroom. It was and never will be worn.
