Gloom...

From the perpetual gloom that is my classroom it has become a regular daily routine to hear screaming children at preciisely 1.25pm each day....the source of distress? Swooping gulls, mainly black-headed but increasingly common and lesser black-backed, deftly swiping the food remains of the best part of two thousand packed lunches. The screams occur when the birds start to defaecate on the dispersing children. If the kids dropped a little less litter it probably wouldn't be such an issue but in this case they really have brought it on their own heads.......