Old Blue Re-unions

[John Knight]

Thank you Plum-in the 3.5 years living in Kent only been to Margate once!

And once is more times than you'd like I'm sure... She lives in a place called Birchington...

Birchington is a far nicer place than Margate.

Oh Yes, it certainly is...
In the 1950s I lived in Cliftonville... also better than Margate.

[carong]

Oh Yes, it certainly is...
In the 1950s I lived in Cliftonville... also better than Margate.

My father gave up music altogether for 10 years after playing one season at the Butlins Hotel in Cliftonville during the 80s!

[sejintenej]

Browsing through today's Guardian I lingered over the queries answered by the Agony Aunt (who demonstrates a splendid mastery of the comma in para 2).

Question Should I go to my school reunion?

Lucy Think about who is going to be there. A group of people for whom the heaving, hormonally-soaked morass of cliques, secret political machinations and occasional armed skirmishes in the playground were the best days of their lives and who are seeking to recreate them for one last evening. And a second group for whom school was a waking nightmare and who are going back only to lord it over their one-time tormentors by talking loudly and incessantly about their children/bank statements/double garages/holiday homes.

So, I should say, on the whole, don't go.

Does this sound like Old Blues Day? :

What a pity that this forum does not have a facility for giving "recs" - that deserved it - my immediate thought was towards the hormonally-soaked morass of cliques atHertford Museum 2008

[englishangel]

I don't think we mentioned bank balances, double garages etc. We did mention children but that is not confined to school reunions.

I think most of us were post hormones anyway.

[lonely_wolf]

The Guardian agony aunt is tongue in cheek I take it, though I suspect there is some truth in the attraction of reunions for those who were either very happy or very sad at school, and the same goes for forums - though I don't think anyone will want to explore that one . I don't regard my school as having been a wildly happy or painfully sad experience, but I was lucky in having several super friends, and unlucky in being socially debilitated by lack of day-to-day contact with female peers, so perhaps it's because it was a powerful experience in both good and bad ways that I'm still interested in it.

I should just say that I'm not an OB and only arrived at the forum by a tenuous connection with Hertford, so that I've been hanging out with the girls on their section a bit .

To continue, the point I wanted to make was that while many people may look down on those who still have an attachment to their schooldays as being somehow infantilised or stuck in the past, I see it as taking a holistic approach to my life and have particularly healthy and fluid feelings about it. For most people it's naive to suppose that the "important" things don't start happening until you're an adult, and a lot of superior-feeling people are just "stuck" in the present.

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

I see that "Lonely Wolf" is still interested in it ------- Should that be with a capital I ?

[Fjgrogan]

Oh dear - I have just flicked back through some posts that I missed. We had our honeymoon at the Butlins hotel in Cliftonville! Strangely enough we are still technically married 41 years later, but that is more by luck than judgement!

[icomefromalanddownunder]

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What a pity that this forum does not have a facility for giving "recs" - that deserved it - my immediate thought was towards the hormonally-soaked morass of cliques atHertford Museum 2008 [/quote]


Such a shame that you didn't make yourself known to us on the day David, as you would have discovered that there was a lot more than, er, what was it you described us as - oohing and aahing? - going on. I think that some of us may even have used words of more than one syllable

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