Drinking tea? The thin end of the wedge?

I'm 68 just born in December.
Where did you go to school?

jeni my profile page is right except i'm now a year older than the page. I think we all took exams young in that form-I remember three of us having to resit part of the 11+ because we had passed it young.Called out of the class as tho' we had been naughty. I don't think I've lived up to my earlier promise.I would do a sad emoticon but i'm not serious about that

I don't think it would have been allowed at my school otherwise!

Now, I remember. Even then I thought he was being priggish.

alie that's why I chose it! I had 'the Oxford companion to English literature' for the best results at O level prize.

“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around,
And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.”
William Cowper



He said' I said a few words mainly beginning with the earlier letters of the alphabet

Hey! I've just done my first copy and paste.

jeni, my dad would have approved of you dictionary prize. Why? He was always grumbling that his scientists couldn't write English.
(Present company excepted of course.)

I only know the bit where he escaped from the school in Pretoria during the Boer War.....and THAT is only because of research as to what was going on and how a distant cousin of mine (British) was found and stopped by the Boers - at a place out in the country, on the route Churchill took to get away.
The escape was in all the papers, and I think my cousin (who was 14 at the time) got separated from his family in the war, and tried to copy Churchill, as it was the next week!

Not generally interested in battle-type history, but a connection makes it feel different. I wouldn't bother to read the book, I don't think.

I have no memory of the comment having removed the whole experience of 'doing' the book from my brain. And I just googled it and still couldn't find it. So it can't have been that memorable.

Is that what he said?

I'm really, really, impressed!

I still quote his comment when he dislocated his shoulder!

That figures! All those facts...

Our choice was between Major Barbara and the Churchill. They asked me which the science form would prefer. I chose the Churchill and for the first time ever there was 100% pass rate in the science form.

Bung ho? I typed gung ho.

Loathed it. All those bung no tales of the battle of Omdurman. And my father equally cross at the choice. It should have been H V Morton or Hobsbsbaum. Fat chance.

I enjoyed the Churchill

I did My Early Life, the Tempest and the Oxford Book of Narrative verse. I'm surprised it didn't put me off books for life.

In which case you either took it very young or your profile page is wrong.

exactly those.

Did you do Macbeth and Churchills 'My Early Life' as well?

Just looked. My dictionary says prize for science 1960-1961.

NUJMB in 1960 I think!

I think I still have the O level Eng Lit book with those poems in. hated Tam O'Shanter- still can't read anything with dialect written-with apostrophes and weird spelling as if we are too stupid to hear a voice in dialect.Must have been1959-1960 O level-JMB board. and i drink tea most of the day Assam Darjeeling and ceylon not china-obviously plotting someone,s downfall

I had the 'Oxford dictionary as my prize for science!