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Kerren, Kerren, with every respect...kerrensimmonds wrote: However, poor Betty Jukes would be mortified to learn that you feared Cookery so much!
Angela Woodford wrote:Kerren, Kerren, with every respect...kerrensimmonds wrote: However, poor Betty Jukes would be mortified to learn that you feared Cookery so much!
I feel absolutely convinced that Miss Jukes knew that I feared and dreaded lessons with her! Like Vonny, I was occasionally sick before those three hour Cookery sessions and a trembling wreck after them. Why did she say such blunt and hurtful things? I think she honestly thought that she'd get me to shape up and become a fast practical and efficient worker that way... It was a huge mistake to do 'A' level Home Economics. But I couldn't think what else to take with English and French!
Remember music mistress Mrs Fiddaman? I had a music lesson before triple Cookery. Mrs Fiddaman switched the time - she said it was hopeless to try to teach music before a girl was due to encounter Miss Jukes; such was the nervous agitation brought on by the prospect of the Cookery School.
I'd actually thought that Miss Jukes was a very nice woman. She took us for Science on Saturday mornings in the 111 Form. How I remember how quickly she sprang into action when Alison Stilliard set fire to her lovely blonde hair with a Bunsen Burner! The yellow Science exercise book - the luminous and non-luminous flames - the metal ball in that stand thing that proved that it expanded on heating and contracted on cooling. And how we all shrieked when the cooled ball crashed onto the mistress's desk! Wonderful.
I'm not surprised I wasn't the only oneAngela Woodford wrote: I feel absolutely convinced that Miss Jukes knew that I feared and dreaded lessons with her! Like Vonny, I was occasionally sick before those three hour Cookery sessions and a trembling wreck after them. Why did she say such blunt and hurtful things?