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Any of you that happened to go near a library in the UK (surely all of the beautiful and intelligent Britain-based people on my friends list, right?) over the summer may well have noticed posters up for the Big Wild Read, the summer reading events for 'the kids'. Well, it finished a week or so back and now we have the donkey work of printing up the certificates for those who took part, then over the next month or so we go to school assemblies and give out the certificates to them, those that managed to complete the Read and read six books (six? I did a summer reading challenge when I was a lad where you read dozens!) also get a nasty plastic medal. We've been given bags of medals in preparation, we've been given ribbon to thread through the eyeholes of the medal. We've also been given stern warnings via the Council's H&S department that on no account are we to tie this ribbon round the necks of any child in case of some bizarre chain of events they end up strangled by their Big Wild Read medals.

The medals are about the size of a fifty pence coin, so I'm surprised we're allowed to give out these obvious choking hazards, and what about haemophiliac kiddies getting paper cuts from the certificates? Someone suggested we do the ribbons round the children's wrists (tourniquet danger surely?), but this whole situation is just so Chris Moyles I feel like writing a "Why oh Why" letter to the Daily Mail about it.