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Thinking of Piers, Emily and family <3

Morning Pat. <3 :-D

Still in the lap of the gods, I see. Freya tomorrow but there's another name for her which escapes me at the moment. I learnt about them at school - (ahem) just a few years ago. ;-)

How is your sun at the moment?

It's out here - a lovely bright morning but brrrrrrr. :-0

Morning Joy :-D :-D <3 <3

Harn or something like that. It's just a few years ago we were taught all this ;-) :-D


Sunny and 19 C here at the moment.

Priya's sun bathing by the window but will be on the settee when the sun reaches it, then across to her chair when it moves to there :-D :-D

I know you are getting bad weather and not just from the daily post on here. Everyone is moaning about it. :-(

We must be of an age, Pat. :-D

I've just ordered myself a piece of furniture that is going to take three months to come. All my unspent coffee and lunch monies to spend! ;-)

Taking absolutely no notice of my bestie's OH who, when we all retired, said what we have will see us out! :-D

BTW, no moans from me about the snow. I always think it looks magical - but I am not travelling to work in it any more. :-D

You need comfort and there's no pockets in shrouds.

Our schools must have had a similar curriculum. Heavy on the maths and English but lots of general knowledge. Biology was mainly the seasons and looking at trees and wild flowers to recognise them. Geography went with history - a map of the world with boats going around that we coloured in and named the countries - boats were Drake's, Magellan's, Vespucci's, Columbus etc. I'm going to have brain ache now :-D :-D :-D

My geography teacher was inspirational and he and Dad were probably a guiding force in my later studies

I hated school, though, and often zoned out and sometimes wagged, but the tutoring must have been good because I can remember much of what I learnt. Some excellent teachers we had, I think. Funnily enough, I kept in touch with two of them and had regular coffees and cake with one until she died. <3

' Morning all from snowy Kent....

Oh Pat, that was one of my late mother-in-law's sayings, 'No pockets in shrouds'.
She didn't want my girls to be out of pocket because of having to buy petrol to travel to Hampshire to see her.

I remember those school subjects and lots of talk about wave action and Continental drift in Geography too.
Did you have individual maps made with a roller and pad of ink?

Yes Gwyn - individual maps in junior school and fine nibs to write small lettering on the maps. Had to be careful not to get ink blobs on it.

Found my son early one Saturday morning, aged 6, sitting in front of the TV with earpiece in so we wouldn't hear it. He was watching OU about plate tectonics and was understanding it. He still remembers it.

Perhaps we should be taught up to about 12 then given a break for a few years, after which we may realise that education is very important whether it's book or skill based.

Nope, no individual maps with roller and ink that I can remember, Gwyn.

I do remember learning about the Continental Drift though and his teaching about Australia, combined with Dad's experiences there, led to my living there for ten years. They were both good enough to raise my curiosity - so a good job well done, I'd say.

I also remember all of us being lined up alphabetically around the walls of our geography classroom and the teacher asking us individual questions about all aspects of the subject. If you got it right, you stayed in first position. If you got it wrong you had to move to the end.

Our geography teacher wrote books about local history and his son was good friends with one of my brothers - very likely why it was one class I never wagged.

Something amazed me just a few years ago.

Like most my age, we probably learned to write cursive script using a nib and an ink bottle set into our desks to write rows of one letter at a time,

My younger grandson also learned cursive script by writing rows of one letter at a time.

Some things never change and I could say the old ways are sometimes the best ways.

:-D

I dropped history and geography in senior school - the sciences attracted me.

There are lots unable to read old style writing in family history yet it's what we were taught as you said Joy.

All we were allowed to choose from was art or domestic science.

Everything else had to be done right through to GCE (as it was then), after which, if you stayed on, you had a choice of A levels.

If you wanted to leave at the age of 15 your parents had to pay in order for you to be allowed to do so. I only recall one person's parents doing that.

Copperplate was how my Dad wrote - beautiful handwriting. <3

I remember one teacher in primary school, who didn't like us to waste any space in our exercise books.
If we had just 2 lines left at the bottom of the page in our English books, we had to fill those lines with carefully written writing patterns using one letter repeated along the line.

I really liked school.

Yes my father had lovely writing.

We had to make choices in 3rd year for our GCEs. All had to do English lang. and maths and then main sections were in 2 subject groups. I did physics and chemistry. There were 2 subjects the boys couldn't do (domestic science and needlework) and 3 the girls weren't allowed (GED, woodwork and metalwork).

A teacher with a good idea, Gwyn.

I think only one of my siblings liked school. It must have been a nightmare for our parents. <3

Morning Pat, Joy & Gwyn <3 <3 <3 :-D :-D :-D

Woke up to another blanket of snow which surprised me :-0

It is still flurrying and it is bitter out :-0

What is it with snow and dogs..... Ralphie and the others were in their element again :-D :-D

I don't recall individual maps :-( I do recall ink wells though :-D :-D

No choices for us apart from DS and art. We had to do the lot, including the three school science subjects, the two old humanities and at least one language right up to and including fifth form.

Much more choice for present-day schoolchildren.