Catherine Green
02-09-2002, 02:21 PM
The very first thing we learned, which was also vitally important to the amount of fun you could have during a winter lunch break was .... Country Dancing.
I started in the Second Year (gosh, how old am I - it's all Year 1, 2, 9, 11 etc. now) as I came from Foxhill and the very first thing we learned in PE was all the dances we used to do during lunchtimes in the Autumn term up to Christmas. 'Bionic' Mr Topham (so named because of his pace-maker) used to call the dances, he was lovely and very bow-legged.
I remember getting a pie in the face from Darren Lloyd, who thought it was hilarious until he got into trouble for nearly blinding me (and others) because he was using cheapo shaving foam instead of the safe stuff! Blimey, that stuff don't half make your eyes water! I also remember a particularly cruel song made up about him - it went 'he's fat, he's round, he bounces on the ground, Darren Lloyd, Darren Lloyd'
He always got his own back though by chanting 'weirdo' 'hippy' and 'stick insect' at me along the corridor.
The school's annual cross country run was both torture (for the non-athletic types like me) and the biggest laugh all year. I remember somebody called Lee taking all afternoon, zig-zagging his way round so that he could hold the record for being last and taking longest!
I also remember giving up playing hockey so I could lead in the school version of Hi-De-Hi - guess who I was?
Enough revelations - get posting your own!
I started in the Second Year (gosh, how old am I - it's all Year 1, 2, 9, 11 etc. now) as I came from Foxhill and the very first thing we learned in PE was all the dances we used to do during lunchtimes in the Autumn term up to Christmas. 'Bionic' Mr Topham (so named because of his pace-maker) used to call the dances, he was lovely and very bow-legged.
I remember getting a pie in the face from Darren Lloyd, who thought it was hilarious until he got into trouble for nearly blinding me (and others) because he was using cheapo shaving foam instead of the safe stuff! Blimey, that stuff don't half make your eyes water! I also remember a particularly cruel song made up about him - it went 'he's fat, he's round, he bounces on the ground, Darren Lloyd, Darren Lloyd'
He always got his own back though by chanting 'weirdo' 'hippy' and 'stick insect' at me along the corridor.
The school's annual cross country run was both torture (for the non-athletic types like me) and the biggest laugh all year. I remember somebody called Lee taking all afternoon, zig-zagging his way round so that he could hold the record for being last and taking longest!
I also remember giving up playing hockey so I could lead in the school version of Hi-De-Hi - guess who I was?
Enough revelations - get posting your own!