Syd posted:
Tie pressed skirt rolled up, chewing gum ready to go....... evening you 'orrible lot......
Evening Syd 
Baz posted:Grief , I had one of those velour hats
Syd posted:Can you imagine leaving school at 11!
No
Baz posted:I’d have him outside the headmasters door like a shot ...uppity lad
At that time you would have done it............
Evening Baz,Syd and Yogi
my school hat was worse than theirs 😂
Kaytee posted:Evening Baz,Syd and Yogi
my school hat was worse than theirs 😂
Evening Kaytee 
Decorum has gone out of the window.............
Children just get sent home now if not wearing the correct uniform.......
Kaytee posted:Evening Baz,Syd and Yogi
my school hat was worse than theirs 😂
Dunces cap?
Syd posted:Decorum has gone out of the window.............
Children just get sent home now if not wearing the correct uniform.......
Syd posted:Decorum has gone out of the window.............
Children just get sent home now if not wearing the correct uniform.......
I landed in detention many times for not wearing the awful hat properly
I learnt Esperanto...........Forgotten it now tho.....
Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Decorum has gone out of the window.............
Children just get sent home now if not wearing the correct uniform.......
I landed in detention many times for not wearing the awful hat properly
Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Evening Baz,Syd and Yogi
my school hat was worse than theirs 😂
Dunces cap?
They were like those old fashioned district nurses hats...we used to backcomb our hair, put a big pleat in the back, then used grips to attach the thing to the back of our heads...I think I'd rather have had the dunces hat😂
Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Evening Baz,Syd and Yogi
my school hat was worse than theirs 😂
Dunces cap?
They were like those old fashioned district nurses hats...we used to backcomb our hair, put a big pleat in the back, then used grips to attach the thing to the back of our heads...I think I'd rather have had the dunces hat😂
Baz posted:Syd posted:I learnt Esperanto...........Forgotten it now tho.....
Did you Syd
Yes, around 1967.............
Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Evening Baz,Syd and Yogi
my school hat was worse than theirs 😂
Dunces cap?
They were like those old fashioned district nurses hats...we used to backcomb our hair, put a big pleat in the back, then used grips to attach the thing to the back of our heads...I think I'd rather have had the dunces hat😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Evening Baz,Syd and Yogi
my school hat was worse than theirs 😂
Dunces cap?
They were like those old fashioned district nurses hats...we used to backcomb our hair, put a big pleat in the back, then used grips to attach the thing to the back of our heads...I think I'd rather have had the dunces hat😂
I bet you looked a right wally!..........
Baz posted:I remember school medicals
Me too
Baz posted:I remember school medicals
And lining up for them.......
Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Evening Baz,Syd and Yogi
my school hat was worse than theirs 😂
Dunces cap?
They were like those old fashioned district nurses hats...we used to backcomb our hair, put a big pleat in the back, then used grips to attach the thing to the back of our heads...I think I'd rather have had the dunces hat😂
I bet you looked a right wally!..........
Me and about 300 others😂
And lining up for medical JABS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Baz posted:Cod liver oil
My mother used to dose me with that, with a spoonful of Virol after to take the taste away
Syd posted:And lining up for medical JABS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes
If we had a school hat I have totally forgotten what it was like! 
I bliddy never had a nap....I was often woken from my desk tho............
Syd posted:I bliddy never had a nap....I was often woken from my desk tho............
Baz posted:Kaytee posted:Baz posted:Cod liver oil
My mother used to dose me with that, with a spoonful of Virol after to take the taste away
Same here ....and if I was really lucky , some of that medical orange juice
I liked that orange juice..........
Baz posted:Syd posted:I bliddy never had a nap....I was often woken from my desk tho............
Nor in mine
Baz posted:Kaytee posted:Baz posted:Cod liver oil
My mother used to dose me with that, with a spoonful of Virol after to take the taste away
Same here ....and if I was really lucky , some of that medical orange juice
Oh yes...I remember that too....it didn't taste much like orange as I remember
Now there is a wally hat if ever I saw one!
Baz posted:These kids ....with their answering back etc ....just show how far the wrong way things have gone !
Baz posted:Syd posted:I bliddy never had a nap....I was often woken from my desk tho............
No chance at mine either😂
Baz posted:Syd posted:Baz posted:Kaytee posted:Baz posted:Cod liver oil
My mother used to dose me with that, with a spoonful of Virol after to take the taste away
Same here ....and if I was really lucky , some of that medical orange juice
I liked that orange juice..........
Me too
Me three
Too delicate to play football, but hockey was ok😂
Kaytee posted:Too delicate to play football, but hockey was ok😂
My eldest got a broken nose and hairline fracture in his cheekbone playing hockey.
Baz posted:These kids ....with their answering back etc ....just show how far the wrong way things have gone !
No discipline these days
Syd posted:I bliddy never had a nap....I was often woken from my desk tho............
No naps allowed at my school.
Baz posted:Marriage bar was still in force when I started work
Was it?
Yogi19 posted:Kaytee posted:Too delicate to play football, but hockey was ok😂
I was on the hockey team, because I could run and wield a stick to great effect
OMG...........how disgusting!!!!!!!.......no wonder there was so many unmarried female headteachers around later on........
Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Kaytee posted:Too delicate to play football, but hockey was ok😂
So much for being a girls’ game
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Syd posted:I bliddy never had a nap....I was often woken from my desk tho............
No naps allowed at my school.
Only in needlework!
Kaytee posted:Yogi19 posted:Kaytee posted:Too delicate to play football, but hockey was ok😂
I was on the hockey team, because I could run and wield a stick to great effect
I can imagine
Baz posted:Marriage bar was still in force when I started work
In banking ,when I got married I had to resign and then be re employed...and they gave me a dowry too
My mum had to give up work when she got married to my dad...........and that was in the 1950s
Syd posted:We had Domestic Science.............
We had Home Economics
Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Baz posted:Marriage bar was still in force when I started work
I’m sure it was ....for nurses and teachers ....and I remember being asked in interviews if I had a boyfriend , was engaged , or had any plans to marry
Kaytee posted:Miss KT on phone
She needs some retraining
Baz posted:This lot are very Bolshie!
Par for the course nowadays
Domestic science for us was cooking knitting and sewing.
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Domestic science for us was cooking knitting and sewing.
Ditto but we called it Home Economics
Shame really we may have progressed, but if the washing machine, or Internet breaks down now the world is at a loss!
Syd posted:Shame really we may have progressed, but if the washing machine, or Internet breaks down now the world is at a loss!
True
Baz posted:Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Domestic science for us was cooking knitting and sewing.
Cooking and sewing for us
And folding a kite nappy............