Reference :- A domestic report from The Sky Reply .The kids are skipping school today.

Reference :-   Along with his best mates , Monte , and Gabbo ( the aborigine ), Sky Reply co-editor  Ken junior is skipping school to protest about climate change .  

 Well good luck to them I say . We may as well go mad with demonstrations before the right honorable Mr Scott Morrison starts throwing people into Black Marias if they so much as wear a green T shirt . The lads are running a fund raiser for the fire fighters at the same time , as are many other students across the country  .  Although we were disappointed that Andy " I am not a racist " Bolt didn't make it to Gabbo's band's fund raiser at the pub the other night , we still raised quite a few quid . If the kids raise a few more today we can get a couple of new tyres for our local volunteer fire brigades's  1964 Bedford fire truck.  

 Young Monte will be giving the younger kids rides around the school yard on the back of his old motorbike .  Although he is years away from getting a license and the bike isn't roadworthy , he is quite a little  " Evel Knievel ".  He charges one gold coin for a blast around the oval . For two gold coins he does a wheelie , and for three gold coins you can also wear a helmet . Though nobody does , for fear of looking like a sissy.   

The last time he ran his bike rides fundraiser , Monte was briefly concerned when one kid burned his foot on the exhaust .   But then the kid's mum dragged him off the bike and snapped  "I told you not to put your bloody foot on the hot exhaust you little idiot.  "  Gabbo is selling a few dot paintings on home made boomerangs . Last  time he did that I asked him if all his boomerangs really worked , and he said they must because he has never had one come back .  And my son , Ken junior has set up a stall where you can throw darts at caricatures of politicians you don't like . He has done up half a dozen of Mr Scott Morrison , since last time that caricature was in shreds by smoko time .

 Despite the heat and dust , we expect a fun day , and in the evening we will have a beer and laugh at the  red faced Sky News anchors as they splutter about unscientific student activists being the pawns of leftie idealogues  .  Gabbo won't be able to come though , he will be online with a student in  Norway working on his assignment  "  The use of the  'isolated source tracer ratio method ' when measuring  methane release from melted permafrost " . Whatever that means.

 Well, that's all from the home front  for now .    Your comrade , Ken