I quite like wearing bright shirts, it's nice to have a change from the normal white/pale blue path that it's so easy to go down every day. Previously I've even worn a pink shirt to school, which received a mixed reaction from pupils and staff. On Friday I wore a shirt you could describe as bright blue if you're being generous, or purple if not.

Comments from pupils were largely along the lines of 'I like your shirt', and I think they were being geunine or at least I'm going to choose to believe that they were. Other reactions were just outright laughter, which is a little rude I think.

Most female staff passed comment too, one maths teacher was relieved that I was wearing a shirt that didn't make me look like a pupil. The fashionable psychology teacher smiled at me, I aked her what the funny look was for.

'I'm smiling, are you not used to people smiling at you?'

To be honest pretty women don't smile at me that often, so no not really.