The other night I sat down to watch the story of Top Of The Pops in 1979, followed by a compilation of clips from that year. Without question, 1979 is my favourite year for music. I know that others will prefer 1983, 1972 or 1967, There may even be some poor misguided fools that think […]
Entries Tagged as 'Schooldays'
My favourite year
January 5th, 2014 · Comments Off on My favourite year · Music
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays·TV
Betta Bilda
January 10th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
In one of those strange coincidences I had some thoughts about toy building blocks this morning, specifically Betta Bilda bricks, and then in the afternoon a colleague raised the topic of Lego in a conversation, giving me the opportunity to voice my recently-formed theory about Betta Bilda.
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays
Open minds
March 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
With a general election fast approaching – probably only 47 days away – the trickle of invitations is starting for various events. By the time it is all over there will have been hustings, Q&A sessions, interviews and all sorts of things. I still find it hard to adjust to the idea that there will […]
Tags: Education·Elections·Schooldays
Go Bish!
July 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics
On Thursday I actually had the TV on during BBC’s Question Time. I had my back to it and the sound turned quite low, so I wasn;t really paying attention to it until near the end when I hear Dimbleby mention that they were in Colchester. I thought to myself “I wonder if my old […]
Tags: Doh!·Schooldays·TV
There is more to being a teacher than just teaching
February 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on There is more to being a teacher than just teaching · Life
Last month there was a brilliant example of the ways a teacher can improve the lives or happiness of pupils without having to teach anything. The whole pastoral care thing is difficult to pin down and define and impossible to measure and put into league tables, but can make a lot of difference, which we […]
Tags: Education·Family·Schooldays
Nothing But The Truth
October 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Nothing But The Truth · Life
According to a ‘lifestyle survey’, as reported in the Crawley Observer: Students in West Sussex have admitted regularly binge drinking, taking drugs having sex and smoking. A follow-up survey into religious leanings and ursine toilet habits has also revealed the similarly shocking news that the Pope is a catholic and that bears shit in the […]
Tags: Local Papers·Schooldays
School’s Out
July 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on School’s Out · Work
School holidays started this week. There is something depressing about continuing to go into work every day when the Mrs. keeps reminding you how she is off for the next five-and-a-half weeks. It would help if she didn’t keep rubbing it in so much. It was already bad enough being there while everyone else in […]
Tags: Holidays·Schooldays
Record of achievement
May 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life
On Friday we went down to K2 for Thomas Bennett’s Year 11 Record of Achievement ceremony.  I had not not been to one of these before – I missed Frankie’s and Chas’s school did something in the evening which was on a much smaller scale: he did go to a much smaller school.
Tags: Crawley·Education·Schooldays
Wrong time to rain
May 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on Wrong time to rain · Life
I find hot weather quite uncomfortable so I’m quite happy for it to be overcast with the odd shower, but today is different.  Its Chrystal’s last day at school and we have to go and sit in the assembly hall for what will feel like hours while they all get their records of achievement and […]
Tags: Schooldays·Weather
Zaine Griff
July 13th, 2007 · Comments Off on Zaine Griff · Music
Before tonight I had never heard what Zaine Griff sounded like, and on a whim I did a search, and turned up this little encapsulation of the 80s. The irony is that Zaine Griff will always remind me of the 70s When I was at school my friend Barry (his name wasn’t Barry. Thats just […]
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays·Spizzenergi
