for the avoidance of any doubt -Posh git!
No Latin at my state grammar
working class Sutton lad who went to QUEGS Mansfield.
for the avoidance of any doubt -Posh git!
No Latin at my state grammar
A fellow old Elizabethan! (I was after it was a grammar school though)for the avoidance of any doubt -
working class Sutton lad who went to QUEGS Mansfield.
Mansfield... you are kidding me.for the avoidance of any doubt -
working class Sutton lad who went to QUEGS Mansfield.
Choice between Latin or Art at mine. I did not choose the former.Posh git!
No Latin at my state grammar
So not a gardener then Lefkas?Latin, about as much use as algebra. Who the f*** adds letters up? I have enough trouble with bleeding numbers.
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Me? Absolutely useless, unless you like everything to be green.So not a gardener then Lefkas?
That reminds me of the time they found the old Roman remains on the old Church Street site of the Minster School in Southwell (the clergy houses are apparently also built on it) and someone graffitied Romans were here on the fence in Latin, only they didn't get it correct and someone corrected the graffiti...
I was at Alderman Derbyshire in darkest Bulwell.... barely 20% pf the kids did any French and even fewer did German.... the idea of doing Latin is vaguely comicalThere was at mine - Henry Mellish in 'sunny' Bulwell
3 years mandatory Latin
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3 years - and I can only remember
amo, amas, amat - I love, you love, we love
Says the man who hasn't seen Bazza's prostitute collection.Green is good, generally means you haven't killed it.
Oh yeahSherwood Hall Tech Grammar for me.
No Latin - but studied Russian ( not for long I hasten to add ).
It’s a borstalMansfield... you are kidding me.
Mansfield actually had a grammar school?
Well, knock me down with a feather.
Still, the class sizes would have been small
(N.B.: I am jesting (again) - please do not take the foregoing as being in any way racist.)
Sounds like an advert for NescaféInterestingly our fellow financial rule breakers Everton FC have their motto -
NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM
Nothing but the best is good enough!!
Grammar school? Pft, Shirebrook stood out so much and was so unique that it has a Special one.Mansfield... you are kidding me.
Mansfield actually had a grammar school?
Well, knock me down with a feather.
Still, the class sizes would have been small
(N.B.: I am jesting (again) - please do not take the foregoing as being in any way racist.)
If memory serves it actually had two. I believe there was also a Catholic Grammar School back in the day.Mansfield... you are kidding me.
Mansfield actually had a grammar school?
Well, knock me down with a feather.
Still, the class sizes would have been small
(N.B.: I am jesting (again) - please do not take the foregoing as being in any way racist.
Latin makes a damn sight more sense than modern jazz, words cannot describe how bad that stuff is.A song in f***ing Latin? And you have the nerve to criticize jazz?
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No Latin - but studied Russian ( not for long I hasten to add ).