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Sounds just like my school days: the headmaster th...

2006-08-31T04:58:00.000+01:00

Sounds just like my school days: the headmaster there was particularly fond of tree stumps though. You got a machete and you had to dig them out. Period. These were always a long term project - say 8 hours a day for a week to three weeks depending on how much you were willing to get into it - and never fun.

I do not miss those days.

Cutting grass was also part of boarding school lif...

2006-08-25T09:48:00.000+01:00

Cutting grass was also part of boarding school life and experience especially if the school premises was on the edge of a forest like mine (RSS) was.

But then we had slang for that, it was called "mass attack", in fact, the large machetes were useless, you needed something called a cutlass which was like a one-handed scythe.

Then when power lines ran past the back of our school, we got to uprooting tree stumps.

In both cases, we ajebotas never got to finish our allotments.

I covered some of those topics in my write-up celebrating the 60th anniversary of my secondary school.

This surely brings back memories of my secondary s...

2006-08-25T09:39:00.001+01:00

This surely brings back memories of my secondary school days in Nigeria. Our boarding school owned so much land everyone had a 'Permanent portion' i.e a piece of land they were responsible for(clearing and tending).
My toilet washing skills from school came in handy when I worked as a cleaner in my first few weeks in the UK... and I still weed my back garden regularly.
Having said that I think it was a nasty experience and I wouldn't want my kids to go through that....

This surely brings back memories of my secondary s...

2006-08-25T09:39:00.000+01:00

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