Ascension Day

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Today is Ascension Day, I have very happy memories of it being a very special day at school. When I look back it didn't take much to make us happy - one year The Study made and sold fudge to us to raise money for a trip to Woburn Abbey. (We were encouraged to donate our breakfast sugar to make the fudge!). Why is it that I can remember more about the build up than the actual day itself?
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Funnily enough I can remember Ascension Day from primary school more clearly than from CH.

I went to a C 0f E primary school and we would walk from school across the fields to the village church for a service then we were free for the rest of the day.

We used to go on trips doidn't we?

2's had a double decker bus to go on my first year, much better than a boring old coach.
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Did we only have the double-decker that one year ? Think that was the Hatfield House outing ( but could be wrong)

Ascension Day is pilchard sandwiches for me - ( we made our own packed lunch, and chose what to put in the sandwiches) .. still love the things, to the disgust of family...
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Last night at the Ascension Day High Mass at church, the organist played Scipio - that brought back some memories...
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It was always cold, we had little if any choice about what went in the sandwiches. We then walked miles to run about in the mud, eat and walk back to school. I never thought then that I would ever join the Ramblers Assoc.
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I think 2's had had the double-decker the year befor I started so yes, you would have had it at least twice.

It was either Hatfield House or Audley End. Neither very interesting to a 12 year old.
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englishangel wrote:I think 2's had had the double-decker the year befor I started so yes, you would have had it at least twice.

It was either Hatfield House or Audley End. Neither very interesting to a 12 year old.
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And definitely pilchard sandwiches! I had an e mail from a contemporary on Thursday, saying 'Happy Ascension Day. Enjoy the pilchard sandwiches and don't pick the bluebells'.
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kerrensimmonds wrote:And definitely pilchard sandwiches! I had an e mail from a contemporary on Thursday, saying 'Happy Ascension Day. Enjoy the pilchard sandwiches and don't pick the bluebells'.
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We are talking over 40 years ago.......when not much was illegal in the Swinging Sixties.
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