Morning all. Dark & a bit damp here - but not windy thank goodness.
Enjoy your last day Chive. When I was at infants & juniors in the 60’s we had very simple end of term Christmas celebrations. A nativity play in infants about 3 days before the end of term and a couple of days making decorations (still have a cardboard Christmas clown and a 2 pom pom Christmas robin) and on the last afternoon a party. But no food or gifts or cards. The party was just lots of games and a couple of picks from a tin of Quality Street.
In junior and high schools festivities were restrained to a single carol concert on the final afternoon which parents could attend.
Maybe the no-fuss way is the same these days now so many of our schools are multi-faiths.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
My first school Christmas party was in 1949. We had some kind of paste sandwiches ,Jelly and custard , diluted orange juice .Played lots of party games including pass the parcel . To settle our excitement before we were picked up by our parents ,we had stories .Miss Smith and Miss Malian (spelling ) were great at reading stories and we had a couple of Christmas tales . We sat on very scratchy coco mats . When we got up to go home there were several dark patches on the matting that nobody would admit to doing .I remember both of my infants teachers with affection . They were great fun . In those days in my school the infant teachers wore protective smocks over their clothes . The smocks were brightly coloured cotton and had nursery scenes printed on them.zHappy times .
Morning all. Going to dentist this morning for two small fillings. Bins are still upright this morning and weather has calmed down. My only Christmas memories of primary school are of making paper chains.
My first Christmas party and starting school ,I remember, also my first Christmas Panto at school . I was a rather fat fairy .Strangely any other memories I have of school are scant .
I was Mary Mary Quite Contrary in my first school Christmas play. My mother said it was a most appropriate role!
Sometimes I just love living in this village. This is the main content of a village Jungle Drums email received this morning:
"Free to a good home - approx 60 cell grown high quality native hedging plants av. 30cm high. Complete with bamboo canes and spiral rabbit guards. Includes hawthorn, field maple, hazel, dogwood, wild rose, and wild crab.
These plants were kindly donated by The Woodland Trust and are left over from the new hedge planting recently carried out by volunteers on The Cricket."
Really wish I was just starting my garden again and could take advantage....
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Good morning everyone. LB and Joyce take care in the winds. Hope your dental appointment goes swiftly Joyce. Topbird what a lovely start it would be for a new gardener. I can remember being very excited one Christmas at middle school because we were all to have fish and chips from the chippy in paper.
Hello again all. I have been a tad busy today. Nipped to 'sco first thing. Did some shopping, got it to the car, loaded it into the boot, then remembered that I hadn't bought one of the items that was one of the reasons for going there in the first place - batteries! Went back inside and got the items I had forgotten. Had a little chat with my favourite check out girl and then set off for home. Halfway home, I had to pull over along with the rest of the line of traffic as an ambulance screamed past us lights on etc. When I got near to the junction I turn at to get to my house I realised there had been a major car accident. The ambulance was parked across the road which created a natural filter for traffic. The two cars involved were on either side of the road. I do hope that no one was badly hurt. I was glad to get home.
School parties: I remember making yards and yards of paper chains. We had to take in dusters and had to polish our desks and wash out the ink wells. The party food was usually little paste sandwiches as has been mentioned by Ruby, and jelly and orange juice. Did we go to the same school Ruby???
Oh T'Bird I would have loved those free native hedging plants too!
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
It would be very interesting if that were the case LB .But I went to local schools only a short walk from my home . I think your schooling would have been more interesting, moving around .
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Enjoy your last day Chive. When I was at infants & juniors in the 60’s we had very simple end of term Christmas celebrations. A nativity play in infants about 3 days before the end of term and a couple of days making decorations (still have a cardboard Christmas clown and a 2 pom pom Christmas robin) and on the last afternoon a party. But no food or gifts or cards. The party was just lots of games and a couple of picks from a tin of Quality Street.
In junior and high schools festivities were restrained to a single carol concert on the final afternoon which parents could attend.
Maybe the no-fuss way is the same these days now so many of our schools are multi-faiths.
Bins are still upright this morning and weather has calmed down.
My only Christmas memories of primary school are of making paper chains.
Enjoy visiting brown eyes Joyce - but hope the fillings don't mean any dribbling afterwards
I was a rather fat fairy .Strangely any other memories I have of school are scant .
Sometimes I just love living in this village. This is the main content of a village Jungle Drums email received this morning:
"Free to a good home - approx 60 cell grown high quality native hedging plants av. 30cm high. Complete with bamboo canes and spiral rabbit guards. Includes hawthorn, field maple, hazel, dogwood, wild rose, and wild crab.
Really wish I was just starting my garden again and could take advantage....
T'bird, I hope someone can make use of the hedging plants.
LB, it's all too easy to forget to buy batteries when your mind is on foodstuff.