spooky

About 90 seconds after pulling the cork on a bottle of wine from
Transylvannia[1], there was an almighty flash of light followed very
quickly by a thunderclap that made the house shake. Then the lights went
out.

Wooo-ooh

[1] from a Laithwaites introductory case

 

You'll just be into late night posts from now on then

 

I put the cork back in and placed the bottle back in the fridge. It's gone
quiet again now and the lights work.

My glass is getting empty. Do you think it's safe to re-open the bottle?

 

How are the canines ?

 

<wiggles tongue>

all present & correct

 

"Today Sesame Street was brought to you by the letters C and L."

 

I thought RE was pretty much compulsory up to age 16.

 

Compulsory all the way to O-level/CSE at my comp.
<waves RE CSE grade 2 dismissively>

 

I think we were allowed to drop it at 14 - only a handful of kids kept
it up and took it for O-level after that.

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I think I had it as a standalone class once a week until I took options,
then it was rolled into the 40 minutes a week of personal & social
education after that (or whatever the class was called). Home room kinda
thing.

All a long time ago now.

 

Pah. In my day it was RI. Until the 6th form when it became comparative
religion and smidgen of philosophy, which was quite interesting.

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Thankfully such shite hadn't yet permeated the classroom when I was a
kid. And what's a "home room" when it's, eerr, at home?

Not so long for you though.

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I'm fucked if I can remember what the actual name was for it, but it's a
class in your form room, with your form tutor, where they shoehorn in
all the crap that doesn't fit in proper lessons.

13 years since I went to uni. Feels like long enough.

 

You're at it again. "Form tutor"? As I recall, the only activity ev er
performed by our form master was calling the register in the mornings.

I bet you can still remember it though.
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Likewise.

 

Same for me - it was compulsory up to the third year.

 

They were Form Masters at my school - actually all the teachers were
Masters (or Mistresses).

 

They were teachers at my school, with the sole exception of the term
"form tutor". The only people who called them masters were teachers
who'd bought wholesale into the "we're almost a public school" schtick.

A few of them even referred to homework as "prep". Twats.

 

Ha!

Being a single sex Grammar School it was slightly cloistered TBF, but
close links with another establishment in the K.E.G.S. mafia happily
offset that.

"Oh you'll never get to heaven, down Rosehill Road, cos' the girls ain't
got no moral code."


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PSE? Your school was way ahead of the requirements if so.