Comments on: On Country Schools & Pet Shows http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/10/28/on-country-schools-pet-shows/ The nom de blog of Jane Paech Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:57:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: janepaech http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/10/28/on-country-schools-pet-shows/#comment-85 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:06:03 +0000 http://knifeandforkintheroad.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-85 Yes, I think school milk put a lot of us off milk for life! I spotted you right away…Still trying to work out some of the others. They were happy days!

]]> By: Jim Smith http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/10/28/on-country-schools-pet-shows/#comment-84 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:02:56 +0000 http://knifeandforkintheroad.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-84 Lol – that’s me top left in the 1967 pic, and also in the pet pic holding the sheep dog puppy just behind and to the right of you. Still remember the little bottles of milk at recess time – warm in summer!

Jim Smith (then Jamie)

]]> By: janepaech http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/10/28/on-country-schools-pet-shows/#comment-83 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 22:29:40 +0000 http://knifeandforkintheroad.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-83 I received the email below from my lovely former teacher at Hynam Primary, Anne Nolan, who married a local and still lives at Hynam. Hynam was her first teaching posting. She also sent me a rare class photo (grades 1, 2 & 3) which I have posted above. I’m seated front left…

Hello dear Jane,
Loved your blog and the pet show photo is gorgeous with a lovely description by you. We did used to have school photos every two years. It’s a long time between class photos if you miss a year! I thought you’d love this one. You weren’t scrawny, just slim! You were quite gorgeous actually. The little class here in the photo looks like a dream run, and it was.

We had no electricity at the school for the whole 3 years I was there, no one believes that these days! No cups of tea at recess unless I bought a thermos, which I didn’t ever do! And photocopiers hadn’t been invented. We had something called a gestetner which was hand operated and spat purple ink
all over me. Oh, and when it was too dark in winter to see to write, we just had to do oral work.

Anyway, they were wonderful years for a girl who’d always lived in the city.

Thankfully I’m a country girl now!

Can’t wait for your next book.

Love Anne.

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