Great! My DD has just informed me she has a note from school. Apparently the teachers are on strike again.

I am on the side of the workers – just pay them! – but it does make me wonder how many of the parents cope with this. Working from home, it’s easy enough for me but what happens when you are supposed to grab the guagua to work by 8.00 a.m. but your kid just tells you there is no school tomorrow.

This last scholastic year has been very disrupted by strikes. While I am all for sending the kids to state school that only counts if there is actually a teacher to take the class for the majority of the year.

Given my jitters about the size of your average Presa Canario dog and the fact that at four months old Tito is already heavier than my four year old son and three kilos heavier than his own brother, you’ll understand that this picture caught my attention.
Here are the reasons the girl is selling her four legged friend:

Free to good home.

• Excellent guard dog.
• Owner cannot afford to feed him anymore, as there are no more thieves, murderers, or molesters left in the neighborhood for him to eat.
• Most of them knew him as ‘Holy S**t.’

Heh.

Head to Playa El Socorro tucked between Puerto de la Cruz and Icod de los Vinos to catch the Santa Surf Pro Junior in which 98 of Europe’s best under-21 surfers will compete to bag a US$4,000 prize. This is a Grade 4 ASP Junior Men’s Event and is taking place between the 4th and 8th of June 2008.

Live Coverage from Surfer’s Village