Right, you've just seen the attendance record for 1 May. And what a fine mess it is!!! How does it differ from the other days? There is no blank row, nor a row with a squiggly pencil line running through it, to separate the morning from the afternoon session. And why isn't there a row which has been left blank to separate the sessions? Because I didn't leave room for it. BECAUSE I SIGNED-IN "MADELEINE McCANN" LAST IN THE MORNING SESSION, AND FIRST IN THE AFTERNOON. And I forgot that the norm was - see all the other days - to leave a blank row.
Did the carer notice? She must have done. Notice how Cat Nanny (Cat Baker) entered the name of Ella O'Brien and signed her in at 2.30. Isn't there a Mark Warner rule that each session - never mind each day - should be on a separate sheet of the book? Yes, there is, and that's another reason why they packed the lassies off to Greece. Kept 'em quiet. Saved Mark Warner's bacon. Whatever, I got away with it. And, do you know, it took years for anyone to deduce how I came to sign-in "Madeleine" on consecutive rows. Here's how:
Sign her in at 9.30 in the morning. and out at 12xx (exact time illegible). Sign her in to the afternoon session at 1430. All done in one easy movement, all accomplished during the lunch break. Done and dusted. Just forgot to leave a space between the sessions.
And did you notice also, that she wasn't twinned on consecutive rows with the Naylor child? In fact, Ainne Naylor had to take her own wee girl into the afternoon session. First and only time she took her to creche, I can tell you.
What's it all about? I'll tell you, because no police force is going to ask the questions now, that they should have asked in 2007 and 2008. Madeleine McCann never attended the creche on 1 May. Nor any other Madalene. And that's why, as you'll notice, neither I nor Kate went back to sign Madeleine out. We might have been asked too many awkward questions about the fact that I didn't allow the staff to create the space for the afternoon session. And about the fact that nobody saw her.
Never mind, it's the anniversary today, and nine years is a long time.