Yes, I am still unpacking! Well gosh, you can't expect a lifetime to be unpacked overnight, surely? Especially not when it is being done single handed, things need to be checked!
Alas I am losing hope that some of my photographs may yet be found. They have not been seen in years and a "friend" assisting me to pack some years ago, took it upon himself to be 'clever' and grabbed handfuls of things declaring them to be rubbish and unceremoniously dumped them into trash bags.
Naturally I kicked him out and attempted to go through all the bags. Finding, amongst other things, books and collectibles. Suffice to say he is no longer on my friendly list! I value books above most things, photographs, family papers (incl. VERY old letters) and music are all highly valued.
I did find an almost complete collection of school annuals from my school days. One is missing from 1974 and I know exactly who nicked it - yes, you know who you are!
I also found my old house badge, there were three houses at the school whose colours were yellow, blue and red and all were named after early headmistresses. Families were allocated to one house, so if you were unfortunate enough to be placed in a different house from a friend, rivalry may have caused fallout. I was in the yellow house, the same as my sister had been and possibly my mother and grandmother before us!
Glancing through the annuals, I am proud to announce that I was a published author at the ripe old age of 6. The content, grammar and spelling of the small article may lack a certain amount of .... appeal!!??? BUT it was written from the heart and that is what counts!
My contributions over the years became more limited whist at the primary school, during those four years my achievements were mostly outside of the school environment, at local art schools and such. The headmistress had it in for me and I consequently did not hold her in very high regard, her and one particular teacher whom I would happily drive over should she step in front of my speeding car - I have it on good authority that most of my peers would applaud such an action, such an unfortunate legacy for her, but how well deserved. As for the headmistress, it gave me a great deal of pleasure in my late teens when I spotted her at a local restaurant with her partner and she was suitably inebriated, to the extent she could barely walk. Looking back at it now, I feel sympathy for her, she must have been miserable. Perhaps picking on 9 - 12 year old girls was just her way of coping!?
High school became another matter, it was there where my art and my insolence became more notable. I wish to say however that I was politely insolent and only in later years. Boredom and irritation drove me to it!
Ah yes, the golden years!
I see the schools website (3 in 1) is currently being overhauled, about time, it has been embarrassing! I do hope they improve it dramatically! It is such a pretty school it deserves better publicity! I am not going to insert a link, purely because it may embarrass the people mentioned herein. This is also why I have not used the school house names.
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