Long day.

[Caran]

Just got back from taking eldest granddaughter(15) and friend to Cardiff to see their favourite group One Direction. OH and I found a chinese buffet where we stuffed ourselves silly.
Never seen so many hysterical teenage girls in all my life. Our girls were laughing and crying at the same time, both lost their voices. I had to smile at some of the stuff they were coming out with. They are convinced their favourite looked at them and now he knows they exist they can die happy!
Oh to be young again.

[Ann]

Sweet memories - I was just like that with the Beatles, first had a crush on George, then changed allegiance to fancying John .............found an old diary with doodles all over it from 1963 "I luv John", George is "fab gear" etc ........it doesn't seem nearly 50 years ago!! :(

[Caran]

I know Ann, I was the same over Tommy Steele in the 50's.

[trt]

I know the feeling,

I went to a club in Manchester to see Lulu, when I was about 18, she was looking at me all the time while she was singing and, I thought she fancied me and went to the stage door when she had finished to ask her for a date.
She just went straight into her car and ignored me, she dosent know what she missed? :-)

[Ann]

Doesn't it make you wanna SHOUT trt :)

[Buenchico]

Trt:
I can honestly say that I've danced with the reigning 'Miss England' ;-)

Carandrog:
For some reason I'm reminded of the time when I wrote the following on a teenage girl's school report:
"If Donna was prepared to devote just a small fraction of the time which she currently spends talking about 'New Kids On The Block' to her study of mathematics, we might make some progress. Until then all hope of improvement is lost"
;-)

[Buenchico]

For Trt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAbbXbZKph0

[MarkRae]

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0TMfQNRk8&feature=related

[Ann]

LOL Chris - reminds me of my treasured comment from my school report 50 years ago - Hubby loves this! .......... "Ann could talk less and work more" and another - "Ann is always lethargic in class" Brilliant!

[Ann]

One for carandrog ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDdcCzKjsc

[Caran]

Chris I know what you mean. These are 2 very bright girls at Gloucesters Grammar school, doing their GCSE's in a variety of good subjects but to hear them in the back of the car, I couldn't believe what they were coming out with. But they had a good time, which was what we wanted to happen, but to see thousands of them pouring out of the arena in an assortment of dress including 4 girls wearing shorts and bikini tops in really cold weather, well!!

[Buenchico]

Ann:
I was once admonished by the head teacher for my report on a pupil who had only attended one lesson all term. It simply read: "Who?"
;-)

[Ann]

LOL Chris - bet you were a fun teacher ! ;)

[Caran]

Thanks Ann It was!!

[Buenchico]

Carandrog:
When you're a teenage girl fashion matters about a billion times more than the weather forecast!

The school I taught in had abandoned school uniform so, within reasonable limits, the students (we weren't allowed to call them 'pupils'!) were free to wear what they wanted. Due to a boiler fault, we endured a half-term where the highest temperature recorded in my classroom was 12C (with 8C being far more common) but, despite knowing that they'd be sitting in a really cold classroom, most of the teenage girls still continued to wear only the skimpiest of attire!

[Buenchico]

Ann:
My lessons on negative numbers often created a stir among pupils (and their parents!). I used the example of a really bad TV talent show, where the audience had both 'cheer' and 'boo' buttons in order to register a total score. I then acted out the parts of the contestants. They included an incredibly bad opera singer and (most notably) a male stripper!

[Ann]

Good gracious Chris - at my old Grammar School, it was SO strict on uniform, the senior mistress made us kneel down on the hall floor and she came round with a ruler to measure the gap of leg showing above the knee - this was our pleated gym shorts!!! A quick slap on the leg with the ruler if she could see pink flesh! :)

[Ann]

Add to that the dreadful school beret - grey with red cord stitched on like a hot cross bun, we hated them and gripped them with hair grips on the very back of our heads as far back as we could then backcombed our hair over the top !!

[Buenchico]

Ann:
At the school I attended we had occasional sock inspections in assembly, where we all had to prove that our socks were the regulation dark grey (not light grey or black) AND had embroidered name tags carefully sewn to the tops. Anyone failing the test was immediately sent home, with a letter threatening expulsion.

At least having a missing name tag in a sock wasn't an AUTOMATIC expulsion offence. They included:
(a) playing soccer, in your own time, for an organised team ;
(b) doing a paper round ; and
(c) holding hands, while in school uniform, with a pupil from the neighbouring girls' school!

[Psybbo]

Oh lord, the day I was called up in front of the whole school as a perfect example of how a pupil should look in her gymslip, white shirt and tie! I never lived it down

[Buenchico]

Your berets sound about as annoying as our school caps, Ann. (If a prefect spotted you, several miles ways from school, on your way home without wearing your cap, you were in BIG trouble the next day!)