tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post8505576712342453510..comments2024-02-09T06:24:16.626+00:00Comments on upside down in cloud: old school bellDru Marlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-71327163426894637052009-09-25T09:38:01.229+01:002009-09-25T09:38:01.229+01:00I wish it did seem strange. Remember that song in ...I wish it did seem strange. Remember that song in "South Pacific"? "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught"?<br />Mind you, speaking as a grammar school oik, we were incentivised to pass the 11 Plus with horror stories about the secondary modern...Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-51250998999362497562009-09-24T13:47:21.229+01:002009-09-24T13:47:21.229+01:00I heard this weekend that my cousin's daughter...I heard this weekend that my cousin's daughter, who was sent to private school in Cambridge and is 10, is nervous about going camp this year because there will be "children from comprehensives" there. This, despite the fact that both her parents went to comps (as did I, naturellement).<br /><br />Seems strange to pay to have your child's mind <i>narrowed</i>, doesn't it?Cathy Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03838615971611193743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-19236056212563004282009-09-21T09:51:20.227+01:002009-09-21T09:51:20.227+01:00Apparently bikes must have bells (or at least, ...Apparently bikes must have bells (or at least, 'audible warning devices') when they are sold, Anji; I guess that people take them off... I know a few people who went to posh schools, and some are v nice and some are a strange combination of posh and seediness with a big dollop of immorality; of the latter, I have heard them refer to people who went to state schools as 'oiks'. I'm glad I wasn't at school with them.<br /><br />I've been looking at some state-of-the-art bike lights, Chrissie, and some of them actually cost rather more than my bike cost me. My present flashing headlight cost nigh on £30, but it is bright enough to persuade oncoming cars to dip their headlights, which a lot of car drivers seem surprisingly reluctant to do for cyclists or pedestrians... so you're getting on with the practicalities of moving, then? Good luckDru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-17501069409472985642009-09-21T07:57:52.650+01:002009-09-21T07:57:52.650+01:00Hey! Nice bell..!
Need to get a bell and a couple...Hey! Nice bell..!<br /><br />Need to get a bell and a couple of lights for my push bike. I don't use it much her,e but it will be my main form of local transport once I move back to civilisation, so i shall need the legal bits...<br /><br />love<br />chrissie<br />xxxxchrissieBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495222190059079697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-64832583360753063172009-09-19T17:28:40.619+01:002009-09-19T17:28:40.619+01:00In France every bike sold must have a bell and lig...In France every bike sold must have a bell and lights. Unfortunately they are usually cheap and tacky. Rob has a horn to honk which he enjoys using to make people jump. I didn't realise that there were so many forms of bicycle bell.<br /><br />I bet as they get older their "extra curricular talents " take on a whole new, er, meaning. I can just picture Penny, Fiona et al. I've been listening to the comedy series about school; "The Pickerskill Reports", once a top school, eventually turning into a state comprehensive accepting (horrors!) girls. <br /><br />Rob went to a top school and look who he ended up marrying, a sec. mod.Anjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02562210585479814093noreply@blogger.com