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Many years ago, when I was at Berridge, we were involved in some activity and a Jamaican lad who was in my class was annoying me. I told him he'd been left in the oven too long and he was out of his chair like a rocket to report me to the teacher.

 

I was summoned to the teacher's desk for the usual, "I'm surprised at you," opening gambit which is designed to make children feel ashamed of themselves.

 

It didn't work.  I asked the teacher whether he was familiar with the West African myth of clay children being baked in an oven, some being baked longer than others and, therefore, darker in colour when they emerged.

 

He had to admit he wasn't and was still intent on ticking me off, so I went to the school library and retrieved the book in which I'd read the legend. It contained the usual gamut of cultural myths and legends from Adam and Eve to the Dreamtime stories of Australia.

 

He didn't know what to say when I asked him why, if we weren't permitted to refer to its contents, such a stupid book was present in the school for all to read.

 

I have never forgotten that incident. It certainly wiped the smirk from two people's faces.

 

In more recent years, this myth has been turned into a children's book, The Fire Children.

 

It taught me a valuable lesson. Teachers don't know everything...and some of them don't know anything!

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????  I couldn't give a toss whether Forest get promoted or disbanded. I'm one of the few people in England who cannot stand football ! Yet its on the bloody telly every night. 'Match of the sodding day'.

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Wrong subject for me mate. I'd rather talk about the Falkirk wheel or the Clyde at Erskine bridge.

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12 minutes ago, Beekay said:

????  I couldn't give a toss whether Forest get promoted or disbanded. I'm one of the few people in England who cannot stand football ! Yet its on the bloody telly every night. 'Match of the sodding day'.

 

And I'm one of the others that has no interest whatsover in team sports, never have had.

And there's more than a few of us Beekay.

The only exception is I'll watch the England team at the Olympics.

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Cheers pal ! More power to yer elbow. Glad there's a few of us left. Although I've got to admit, I'd watch owt at the moment, after being in isolation for 122 days. Really fed up with all these repeats. Running out of things to paint. Take care mate !

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19 minutes ago, Al Duff said:

live only a few cabers' tosses

That's  summat else, not bin tossing fer ages. :rolleyes:

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Bekay the wife loves knitting , but the sound of needles annoys me, I am a miserable old sod, so I am reliably informed, give me the peace and quite of the greenhouse and the garden anytime.

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I don’t like watching professional football.  Enjoy watching the grandchildren playing footie though

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That's it then Trogg. We could form the M.O.G. club, (Meldrew Old Gits). We could sit around somewhere and complain about everybody who passes by or the state of the weather etc. Or little kids playing football near us.  (TONGUE IN CHEEK FOLKS!)

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@radfordred  would love you to join us but it might be embarrassing as our granddaughter might run rings round you!    She is only 10 but was training with Cambridge United Juniors until lockdown.  She is football crazy...  

Another  couple of years and you'll probably be playing footie with your own little granddaughter (unless she would rather you play dollies with her :wacko: )

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My chickens definitely love me. Last evening, when sitting outside, by the coop, with my pre dinner beer, they all settle in next to me :)  It's quite peaceful sitting and watching them

 

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Sat on a bench in Woodthorpe Park this afternoon when a chap pulled up on his mobility scooter thing & we had a good chat. During the conversation that followed I realised I had worked for him as an apprentice more than 50 years ago.

Amazing who you bump in to.

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