Well that takes the biscuit

A splendid young girl in yr8 once underwent  surgery on both her arms and ended up with a full bandage/plaster arrangement from virtually shoulder to fingertips on each arm, thus making any kind of movement in her arms and hands extremely difficult for her. After only one or two days convalescing at home, in her true pioneering spirit, the young lady was very keen to get back to school and despite the obvious attendant difficulties, she returned to school on day 3. When I was informed of this I felt that she deserved some recognition so I found out what class she was in at that time, I picked up a very special stainless steel “designer” fruit bowl (a gift from some Swedish visitors) and placed in the middle of it, just one silver foil wrapped chocolate biscuit.

I took it along to her classroom, walked in with it held high, as a waiter might do, and made a ceremony of the presentation. There was rapturous applause as the brave young lady clumsily scooped the chocolate biscuit off the fruit bowl with her two bandaged arms and began unravelling the foil!