April First has a life that is sensational, exotic, unexpected, bizarre.  Which is odd considering she is a school administrator.

As toxic waste is dumped in her office, a plague of frogs steal the letter “W” from all computer keyboards, and the number of children in the school drops to the square root of minus 5, so the office staff focus on their age old task of outmanoeuvring the management and keeping the teachers in their place. 

When 20 Latvian children arrive their parents (all, rather surprisingly, dentists) are placed in the head’s study, and immediately set up a surgery.  As synchronised cost cutting becomes the flavour of the day a significant sum of money is purloined from the Dept for Education and Skills to help pay for a Latvian teacher.

Bored by her mundane existence following an attempt by the managers to introduce cashless catering and so downsize the administration department April applies for a job with MI6.  To her amazement she is taken on, and is given the job of spying on her own headteacher….

April First: Diary of an Administrator is currently being published on www.admin.org.uk and publication in book form is being contemplated.  There is an extract contained here.