Recent content by I Am Nico

I rebelled just before I left during exam time. I came in late, not on purpose but had to walk the proverbial the plank in my black and red platforms with segs on, my non uniform trousers and jacket, shirt and no tie. I suppose we will let you take your exam, said the teacher. probably 1972.

The pettiness of it all. Some girls had polo mint hair slides, the senior mistress jokily told the girls to pop them in their mouth and come back with a hair grip, She wasn't normally that pleasant, she was evil but she needed the choristers. For some reason she had the job of how the choir...

Sorry the Mac keeps changing things when I send stuff. Second word school should read shoes. We stood out but we never won anything , second place maybe. Great fun though. No one was allowed to wear make up to school unlike now, long hair was tied up, with navy or blue ribbon, nothing else, no...

Me ex Hong Kong colleague was a very poor child, they were many, they loved their school shoes and uniform bt they all came off and they went barefoot at home. Her children now grown up thought they were just stories. She told me all this when they found a UXB in Coventry City Centre...

I was I the school choir we had to wear black polished school when we performed, and the girls had to white ankle socks, the big girls looked stupid though.

The butcher thought I was a girl. I had a balaclava on.

Well I wear them. I need to I have the air circling, see kilt post

We got chucked out of Tiffanys and the Bali Hai suite in the 70s. with its plastic leaves because a mate had button eyes sown on to a black glove and he used to do the spider on girls' shoulders. And they would scream, And he pulled the leaves off for a halo. One girl we knew by site, a...

Do you remember queuing up in your kipper tie and bell bottoms, bum fluff moustache trying to look 18? I do. One of the reps on hard times I worked with in the 70s was bullied by the boss as he was a bit unkempt. He had been sleeping in his car due to a break up. The boss threw some loo roll at...

We have to be all inclusive now. I think its nice you can wear what you want know but some things just don't suit sone people. I was in Monaco once in the 70s you could not walk on the prom shirtless and covering up to go in to holy places is understandable. My partner coming from the continent...

Some clothes are made to look like dressing gowns and Jim jams and chefs trousers, and slippers, but some are the real thing. Our granddaughter insisted on going to the restaurant in her donkey costume she wore at the nativity. That would not have been allowed in our day but we never went out...

There's nothing like a cold beer in a beautiful garden with the birdies singing is there!

Hope the beer tastes good.

I put one safe box with 3 or 4 in. Then I moved it. Partner saw the rat looking under stones and it was in the thyme pot and the chives. Web said thoroughly wash the herbs. One of my birth family died from rat poison. He had a silly habit of picking up cigarette buts and smoking them, they were...

Remember when you had to sit outside and freeze to death if you had children or sometimes there was a lean to in a garden. I remember on holiday and the Beatles were big and mum didn't want to go to this pub with beatniks outside. I did as they were playing the Beatles and had a pink neon...