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  • st
    st Posts: 3,461 Forumite
    harrowing wrote: »
    I distinctly remember my dinosaur paintings being laughed at by several classmates :o harrowing stuff

    can imagine:rotfl: ........

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  • harrowing_3
    harrowing_3 Posts: 1,713 Forumite
    Congrats for sticking at it ST...I can't say the same about improvements in my practical skills, as my wife will testify.....watch it!!!!
    I did once change a piston in an old car and it even ran for a few miles afterwards....:rotfl:
  • amistupid
    amistupid Posts: 55,997 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic I've been Money Tipped!
    harrowing wrote: »
    I did once change a piston in an old car and it even ran for a few miles afterwards....:rotfl:

    Forward thinking doing the repair on the top of a very high hill. :D
    In memory of Chris Hyde #867
  • harrowing_3
    harrowing_3 Posts: 1,713 Forumite
    amistupid wrote: »
    I'll swap you a GCSE/GCE for a Norwich/Ipswich. :D
    :confused: "knickers off ready waiting i'm coming home" and WHAT ?
  • st
    st Posts: 3,461 Forumite
    GCEs still the best you see still avaialble in Singapore and lok at their standards very high
    education went stupid when the Thatcher government scrapped o levels -I will never know why :confused: crazy and introduced a stupid national curriculum -under Nu Lab even worse the standards -:mad:

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  • harrowing_3
    harrowing_3 Posts: 1,713 Forumite
    amistupid wrote: »
    Yeah but you were 17. :D

    Might as well have been. Trust me, if you can't draw & paint it don't improve post 11 years old!
  • amistupid
    amistupid Posts: 55,997 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic I've been Money Tipped!
    I excelled at Art and Human Biology great at drawing mucky pictures. :D
    In memory of Chris Hyde #867
  • harrowing_3
    harrowing_3 Posts: 1,713 Forumite
    st wrote: »
    GCEs still the best you see still avaialble in Singapore and lok at their standards very high
    education went stupid when the Thatcher government scrapped o levels -I will never know why :confused: crazy and introduced a stupid national curriculum -under Nu Lab even worse the standards -:mad:

    Yep, brother lives in Indonesia and sends his son to a private school there..probably sets him back....ooooh..... £20 a month !
  • st
    st Posts: 3,461 Forumite
    harrowing wrote: »
    :confused: "knickers off ready waiting i'm coming home" and WHAT ?

    cant wait !!!!!!!!!!:rolleyes:

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  • st
    st Posts: 3,461 Forumite
    harrowing wrote: »
    Yep, brother lives in Indonesia and sends his son to a private school there..probably sets him back....ooooh..... £20 a month !

    yes I know some expats there and sri lanka excellent schooling even in sri lanka at the local schools
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