Gladiator, ready..........

Coming soon to a childcare provider near you........

For The B&G's nursery, an alternative name.
These days, I call it Gladiator Academy.
This, a reference to the 1990s LWT show, a programme that dedicated itself to bringing a little light violence to the teatime schedule on Saturdays.
In recent days, The B&G's nursery - to me, at least - seems to have been focusing its efforts on training the Gladiators' next generation.
The other day, for example, upon arriving to collect The B, I found several aggressive-looking boys (The B included, it must be said) pummelling each other using padded apparatus of all shapes and sizes.
The staff like to call this soft play, I prefer to call it combat.
There is other evidence that I can present.
Earlier this morning, for instance, reading the pegs in the cloakroom, I noticed one or two unfamiliar names in The G's room.
One Saxon, the other Phoenix.
Naming children is a subjective business, it's true, but to me, such monikers point to little more than a future career in the Gladiator trade.
For now, I'm not concerned.
But should ever a peg appear for a child called Wolf, it might perhaps be time to reassess our choice of childcare provider.

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