Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

wigglebeena

PasturesNew wrote: »

My history was odd. I went to two different schools. First one we seemed to be working through those old kings to about the 1400s, I remember Henry VIIIth and the Bayeux Tapestry being mentioned.

Second school I did two years' history at, but can't remember much except two odd things we did:
- we had a photo of a dead man, it was some peat bog man found, he'd been hanged.
- the next thing was an accident scene, car accident/dead person, we had to work out what questions we'd ask to find out how it all happened, using skills we'd learnt in studying the peat bog man.

I'm sure I had that exact same lesson. Must have been something standard from school to school for a particular syllabus.

wigglebeena

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't buy newspapers, so never read her. I was brought up in a family where we had the local evening news delivered Mon-Sat and the Sunday People came on Sundays.

When I left home I just never bothered buying papers. It's about £150/year to see a load of adverts for stuff you can't afford... better off keeping your £150 in your pocket.

No papers! How do you pleasantly idle any time away at all? No Guardian means no Lucy Mangan. No Lucy Mangan means life as we know it cannot continue. Plus Charlie Brooker, a trusty deliverer of scorching bile in column-sized portions.

Plus Home Clubber. I feel sad for all the poor people whose lives are deprived of Home Clubber.

wigglebeena

gallygirl wrote: »

Took me 20 yrs to finish Tess, finally managed it when housebound with flu & had read all the shampoo bottles etc. Made me even more depressed. As did 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'. Got 1/3 way through, decided he should have taken his mother out too & left book on the plane :rolleyes:

My SIL left in in the bathroom when we visited. I can't see it as appropriate toilet reading. Horrible book.

SingleSue

wigglebeena wrote: »

I'm sure I had that exact same lesson. Must have been something standard from school to school for a particular syllabus.

And us! 1st year high school that was.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't buy newspapers, so never read her. I was brought up in a family where we had the local evening news delivered Mon-Sat and the Sunday People came on Sundays.

When I left home I just never bothered buying papers. It's about £150/year to see a load of adverts for stuff you can't afford... better off keeping your £150 in your pocket.

The diary column goes online every Sat pm.....you wanna link ?

lemonjelly

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I remember one half-term when I was in the fifth form reading "Jude the Obscure" followed by "Tess of the D'Ubervilles, which was a very depressing combination.

:eek::eek::eek:

SingleSue wrote: »

Makes me feel old where everyone is talking about GCSE's....they didn't do those when I was at school!

They came in 2 ish years later.....

We did 1918-1945 history in my 3rd year, I really got into it and scored 98% in the end of year exam!

GCSE history for me was european history, french revolution, napoleonic wars, waterloo and so on. Great stuff, & really really interesting.

Because I liked it so much, I did A level history. I specifically asked if we were doing european history as I wanted more detail & the years around what I'd done. I was told yes. I was very disappointed to then find us doing the industrial revolution.

Being from the midlands, there is a lot of industrial revolution taught when you're younger, & I really wasn't motivated, & it meant I no longer trusted the teacher. He was a boring so&so too!

On the reading, I love reading. When I had a job gap late last year, I realised I needed to find something mse to do, as I had no income for 6-8 weeks. I started to plough through all the books I have accumulated over the years, & have absolutely loved it. After starting the new job, I made sure I made time to read.

Last night, I read a quidditch through the ages http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quidditch-Through-Ages-Comic-Relief/dp/140880302X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260647061&sr=8-3. tonight I will read magical beasts & where to find them http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fantastic-Beasts-Where-Find-Them/dp/1408803011/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260647061&sr=8-2 followed by this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Victims-Jack-Ripper-Neal-Shelden/dp/0978911296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260647129&sr=1-1
One thing I am surprised by, is the amount of books I should've been reading at university that I really want to read now.

fc123

fc123 wrote: »

The diary column goes online every Sat pm.....you wanna link ?

Bad Manners to quote ones self...but, hey, why not?

Latest link to Liz Jones Diary
comes with a FC123 warning.....it's about schooldays and its very, very wallowing in self pity. The type that one has late at night in ones head.....not that you'd ever write it down when you are older ..god forbid.

Chose one para to save you time.......this is so deff leading to a spendaholic cure book, the spendaholicness coming from low self esteen etc etc.

While unpacking the last of my things, I came across an old school photo, taken in the art room of Brentwood County High when I must have been about 13 or 14. There, centre front, is Sarah Trembling, the prettiest girl in my year, who always had loads of boyfriends and was first to wear a bra. There too is Gillian Saunders: blond, great teeth, good at tennis and gymnastics (I couldn’t even perform a forward roll).

Next to me is Karen, with her smouldering dark looks and brilliance at maths – I once snogged her brother, but he was put off by my braces. In front of her is the girl who became a nurse and a lesbian. I remember we went to see The Towering Inferno together, and I fell completely and utterly in love with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. I spent months, years, agonising and trying to decide between the two

and some more before X Factor comes on...cos I know what counts to those that have telly reception

I’ve been sitting here wondering what the lives are like now of all these girls. They undoubtedly have giant, adult children. They are probably settled, looked after, content, whereas I am in constant turmoil, wracked with self-doubt. Looking at my young self, I feel I have let her down; I’m not really any further ahead.

I think the trouble is that now I no longer have hope, or anything to dream about. What used to keep me going was the thought that I would meet someone, or lose weight, or get a great job, or live in a lovely square in Islington. My most recent dream – and I would visualise it every night before I went to sleep – was of unloading a beautiful racehorse in my own stable block. What on earth would happen after that, I wasn’t quite sure. I realise now that I need a new dream, something to keep me going. The trouble is, I don’t know what it is that I want.

PasturesNew

wigglebeena wrote: »

I'm sure I had that exact same lesson. Must have been something standard from school to school for a particular syllabus.

That was pre-O level, so 3rd and 4th year secondary school. But the school tended to work towards the Associated Examining Board Syllabus, and the Oxford & Cambridge Syllabus.

PasturesNew

wigglebeena wrote: »

No papers! How do you pleasantly idle any time away at all? No Guardian means no Lucy Mangan. No Lucy Mangan means life as we know it cannot continue. Plus Charlie Brooker, a trusty deliverer of scorching bile in column-sized portions.

Plus Home Clubber. I feel sad for all the poor people whose lives are deprived of Home Clubber.

I have no idle time. Every spare minute of every hour of every day is spent researching stuff on the Internet, or writing stuff, or tweaking sites or ad servers. No idle time!!

That's why I'd like a job, to get a rest

Never heard of Lucy Mangan, nor Charlie Brooker. Home Clubber? never heard of it.

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

The diary column goes online every Sat pm.....you wanna link ?

Her life is so alien to anything I've experienced, I'd probably end up just wanting to track her down and daub poo on her front door. So no thanks.

She'd irritate me.