Ooops ... fumble fingers ... where's the remove emoticon button ? What I meant to do was a big like and I was going to say ... who needs illustrations when you have a word picture like that ....
did you go to school in Fareham?
I agree Philip.. Lady salwey taught me a lot to do with garden design she was a good artist with flowers and colour when designing planting plans, sadly she passed away.
Just wondered as I did and had a lovely English teacher there...
There are a few about ... good teachers ...I had more than my fair share ... and the ones that didn't leave me enthused (history and biology ...) left a few words that occasionally do ring in my ears ...
Good school as well - approved
Yes, unfortunately there are also some bad ones. I had two exemplary English teachers (although old Dai Bed could not get me enthused about Jane Austen!!) sadly both died before their time - one in front of his A level class, but (apart from Austen) you could not but be enthused in their lessons, brought Shakespeare to life for us, got me into acting in a big way and both inspired a lifetime love of Thomas Hardy's novels in me.
The cruelty of some knows no bounds and in our physical and emotional carers is so reprehensible it makes me seethe. What a jewel can be made coached by a sensitive, understanding and empathic teacher yet what dross, what ruined life is risked by physical and mental violence.
The chalk and board rubber routine was a favourite of my maths teacher too - it must have been part of the training. He also took the whole class out on to the snowy playing field without coats and wouldn't let anyone in until someone came up with the correct answer. Funnily enough, it didn't work; even those of us who knew it suddenly became innumerate. Sweet victory
I went to one of the concerts where they performed songs based on the words in the book - music and songs developed in collaboration with Robert M and Jackie M. Jackie reproduced the otter illustration under lights and cameras, live on stage at Birmingham Town Hall, as they preformed this. What talent
Wow. Lucky. I have spell songs on disc
Philip, are you sure we are not married to the same woman? That description could be of my missus. Mine is in the kitchen at the mo.......
Ha ha ... no - I've got her tied to the washing machine at the moment but she has been going for long walks on her own during lockdown !Philip, are you sure we are not married to the same woman? That description could be of my missus. Mine is in the kitchen at the mo.......
Yours hasn't disappeared for a while has she?
My school was also an old style grammar school ...my father had gone there before me and some of the teachers who had taught him as young pre-war teachers also taught me in the autumn of their teaching years ... I was occasionally plagued with the the taunt by one who taught Dad 'you didn't inherit your father's brains then ?' Sadly - he was right ... but what I lacked in some areas I made up for in others. Discipline was strict .. a lot of the teachers were ex WW2 service personnel and it showed. They insisted on good manners .. woe betide you if you were seen sitting down on the bus home when there was ANY adult standing... The corridors at school were long and if you saw a teacher coming through the doors at the other end of the corridor you stood and held the door where you were open until they had passed through. I had some good teachers, a couple of duff ones and a couple that scared everyone witless - I got through and learned probably more than I thought I did. Schools and teaching are very different these days ... in many ways for the better but... there are aspects relating to manners, common sense and self discipline that I sometimes do feel has deteriorated in favour of a lessez faire attitude and the lack of any real censure for those who transgress is very limited.
