hippo girl

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  1. As I have said before, good teachers are born not made , and I see no need whatsoever for violence to achieve discipline ....

    I like fly , was constantly smacked at school by poor teachers not satisfying my enquiring mind .

    This led to me becoming rebellious and non conformist in my teenage years......

    I then went into education, listening to the needs of my pupils and worked some of the most deprived schools in England without any disrespect or disruption....

    So in a way the grammar system I was educated under gave me the courage to give my children and my pupils more self worth and conformist values .....

     

     

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  2. Alison Steadman in Gavin and Stacey.....sooo good with Larry Lamb .....

    She has such a talent in making people believe it is all real ......

    My mum still watches the evacuees Kath ..... she was brought up in the Jewish faith , evacuated to north Wales during the war and offered roast pork for Sunday dinner !!!!,

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  3. Not forgetting the fondue set and habitat chicken brick ......and if you liked to entertain "like Abigail ", the height of sophistication was an awful Tupperware thing with twiglets, peanuts and other h'douvres on it....

    Today it's Tapas !!!!!!

  4. What great pictures....

    When my mum and dad built their house in the late 1960's they had that same orange wrighton kitchen, G plan Danish furniture, and dralon sofa from Sankeys in sandiacre.....

    They still live in that same house but sadly the kitchen and the furniture has been replaced....

    Would be very retro and on trend today 

     

  5. The problem here Loppy, is that after university, the jobs worth having are in London ...

    Not only do the youngsters have to pay off uni fees, they are faced with high rental costs, long expensive commutes and never getting onto the property ladder .....

    Post brexit has left gloom and doom in London and sometimes the life of a " burger flipper " seems rather more preferable !!!