Fifty years ago and counting...

[gillo]

We've been watching a documentary about the year 1966 this evening - lots of nostalgia there. It was a year in which a lot of things changed for me - I passed my 11+, went to grammar school, moved house, learned about a lot of things that passed me by before that. The programme also reminded me of a comment kazzy_cee made on my last post, so I thought I'd

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[geekslave]

Interesting backstory! Sounds difficult moving around a lot - especially with little notice.

Corporal punishment for writing in cursive! Yikes!

Stacey

[gillo]

She'd told me once - I just hadn't understood "We don't do joined-up writing till next year" was an order! That teacher made a lot of use of her ruler to smack though. We were all 7.

The moving got harder as I got older. I survived, though!

[geekslave]

I guess that was something fairly normal at that time, but I would have had serious problems with someone doing that to my kid. I was kind of a mouthy seven-year-old, so I would have had something to say about it as well.

I can empathize with that. We first moved when I was eight, but then stayed put for awhile, but starting in high shool we moved a few times and it was difficult.

Stacey

[kazzy_cee]

I'm not sure I would have enjoyed moving around so much, but it certainly meant you saw a lot of different areas. Your car crash sounds horrendous!

[gillo]

Well, the areas were all in the same county, so not that different!

The car crash was really nasty. Dad's police first aid training saved Mum's life - she went through the windscreen and was pulled back again - the broken leg was the least of it.

[bogwitch]

That was an interesting look into a way of life I had never thought about.

[gillo]

Thanks. We all assume our own childhoods were close to the norm, I suppose.

[snogged]

Wow...that's a lot of moving.

Thanks for sharing with us. Interesting stuff.

[gillo]

All within one quite small county too, which made it all the more frustrating. Thanks.

[chickenfeet2003]

I can relate to the moving around thing. My father worked for a clearing bank. I spent my first five years in Sale because Dad was working in Manchester and then as an IA. Then to Bradford where he spent four years as Assistant Manager of a branch there and then it got more stable because he got a head office job and, it seems, once in London one never got out because he spent the rest of his career either in HO jobs, London branches or on the inspection staff in the South East. Hence most of my schooling being in Bishop's Stortford, a place I grew to loathe, which contributed to my decision to choose a university as far away as possible!

[gillo]

You needed to return to Proper North. I get that!