My next school was the Girls’ High School. That school was in its final years before the changeover to the comprehensive system, and the upper school was already under construction. Nevertheless, the school kept to its old-fashioned organizational and disciplinary system, so the all-girls school had four houses with a system of house points andContinue reading “Secondary School”
Category Archives: teenage years
Accidents
Although Mum didn’t work full-time when we were children, she did work: on the market on a fruit & vegetable stall once or twice a week, and a 4-hour early evening shift at CAV, although not at the same time. We had a series of babysitters to look after us when Mum wasn’t there. OneContinue reading “Accidents”
Forty years today
40 years ago today, at a little after 9 a.m., the phone rang in our student house in Hull. I ran downstairs, knowing exactly who and what it was going to be – no-one else would have called at that time of day. I grabbed the receiver from its cradle on the wall and listened.Continue reading “Forty years today”
Fading Memories 