Yes my daughter is honing her skills.

Yeterday she was handed a stack of dirt cheap rubbishy xmas cards to send to her class mates. We left her sat at the table, methodically going through them, selecting which people deserved which card and writing name on envelopes.

After a while I glanced over to see that she was writing more than usual in one card. A quick inspection showed she has everything required to be queen b1ch in the playground:

"Dear A**** <name obscured to protect the innocent>,

I dont want to talk like babies anymore. I'm starting to get bored of you.

Happy Xmas
Love N****** <name obscured to protect the guilty>,

XXX"

They are certainly born that way - got two of them with my poor boy child in the middle.

Love it! When I used to write my cards at that age I remember giving the people I liked snowmen and santa cards and the crappy ones of robins and holly to everyone else.

I always got robin cards

At least you got cards. I got lumps of coal if I was lucky.

The poinsettia ones got given to those I didn't like

That's what my lot were doing a couple of days ago. My eldest daughter got a separate pack of really nice girly cards for her best friends and my son stole one for a girl in his class saying it was because he'd run out of girls cards in his pack. I'll have to check the cards very carefully this year as I found a card to my youngest a couple of months after Christmas with a message from a boy in her class saying that he loved her golden hair. Very charming young Danish boy - I bet the aussie boys are not so romantic.

Here's a Batman for you this yr.

Poor old robin.

One year when my son was little he sat down to do his cards for the 30 of so children in his class.First he wrote all the messages in the cards,then he put them all in envelopes which he happily licked banging on it each envelope to make sure that they would need an angle grinder to get the card out.He then started to write the names on the envelopes of each child.......