Wednesday, 23 March 2011

The Gallery - Education.

The theme Education this week at Sticky Fingers immediately made me smile.

I was a feisty teenager with bad hair and a matching attitude, don't be fooled by the glasses I was actually quite cool.


Tara and I have had a conversation a few months ago on Twitter about an incident I was involved in at school and she asked demanded I blog about it. I never did and now I feel as a special gift to her the time has come...

I must have been about 11/12 and my friend and I were supposed to be doing homework in the local library. We weren't we were looking at medical books and massage books, cracking up at the nudie photos inside. Anyway reckoning ourselves as little business women we had money making brain wave.

Using the photocopier we made lots of copies of the pictures, women in towels being massaged, breast examinations, mothers breast feeding... really anything that involved a low level of nudity. We then cut them out and stapled them together into little books and sold them to the idiot boys in our year for 35p.

By break time we had made enough to buy ten Benson and Hedges and were laughing smuggly until we were yanked into the Deputy Heads office. We were immediately put on report for circulating pornographic material.

The Deputy Head did however say he hoped as we grew older we were able to focus our entrepreneurial skills better, and looking back I think he may have been stifling a smile.

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Posted by MUMRA at Wednesday, March 23, 2011

40 comments:

  1. Jennypaulin23 March 2011 at 07:01

    Ha ha great story! I bet he was stifling a smile!
    T - Lo looks like you here! You do look cool and your hair is how it was back then. You look way better than I did! How old are you here? 13 ish?

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  2. Him Up North23 March 2011 at 07:04

    LOL What a brill story. And that photo... looks like butter wouldn't melt.

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  3. Trish @ Mum's Gone to23 March 2011 at 07:09

    Oh this is a fabulous story. You can tell from your grin you were a lot of fun!

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  4. CherishedByMe23 March 2011 at 07:27

    Haha! Brilliant idea!Lovely photo too. :)

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  5. PippaD23 March 2011 at 07:51

    Great smile and a great story!

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  6. domestic goddesque23 March 2011 at 07:58

    I said it on Tara's blog and I'm saying it again here: inspired idea for a Blogger Year Book. You so get my vote for Head Girl, especially now I've seen your school picture ;-0

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  7. If I Could Escape23 March 2011 at 08:07

    Love it! What a great story.

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  8. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 08:10

    Yes I reckon 13 or thereabouts.

    The hair took about half a can of spray to get that height on the quiff!

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  9. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 08:11

    I think it covered up the trouble I could cause!

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  10. jfb5723 March 2011 at 08:33

    I just love those glasses!

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  11. SAHMlovingit23 March 2011 at 09:03

    Haha! That is THE BEST school story ever.

    Btw, you're totally rocking those Deirdre Barlow specs. I had some too - although yours are much cooler.

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  12. Tara23 March 2011 at 09:17

    LOOK AT THOSE SPEX!
    (Shuffles off as I had a very similar pair when I first started work . . .)
    Thanks so much for that. Paints us all a very detailed picture of the person you are I think now Mumra! And I bloody love the photo x

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  13. Sian - Mummytips23 March 2011 at 09:22

    Classic tale.
    I spent the whole of my final two years at school on report and I was darned proud of it too.
    Love the perm:)

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  14. HannahSam23 March 2011 at 09:22

    That hair is just SO high!

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  15. @Kahanka23 March 2011 at 09:23

    What a naughty girl yuo wre...but really made me giggle! I love the picture, I am sure you were cool and finally another person revealing their school photos ;) @Kahanka.

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  16. laurachora23 March 2011 at 09:29

    That's a fab story! ... and I can see the coolness behind the glasses ...

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  17. Katie23 March 2011 at 09:32

    Haha!!! Classic story I love it!!! I can imagine you doing that too!

    Loving the hair, not sure bout those specs tho mrs!!

    X

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  18. Bekidavies23 March 2011 at 09:39

    What great story, thank you for making me smile over my coffee this morning!

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  19. Michelle Twin Mum23 March 2011 at 09:59

    Fabulous, you naugty little girl! Mich x

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  20. Kate C23 March 2011 at 10:03

    Berlimey. Spex and hair, killer combo, lady.

    Great story. :D

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  21. mama-andmore23 March 2011 at 11:13

    Totally utterly blinkin genius!!!! You do know of course that what goes around comes around, and your children will torment and shame and delight you too with their "entrepreneurial" leanings, as it appears to run in the family!!! xx

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  22. helloitsgemma23 March 2011 at 11:40

    I can equate the girl in the picture with incident described - brilliant. cheers for sharing. thank you

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  23. Mymumdom23 March 2011 at 11:55

    PMSL at your story. I would have been pretty proud of you if you'd been my DD!
    Sadly no need for this sort of thing these days with the internet.

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  24. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 12:16

    No exactly can you imagine any 12 year old boys paying 35p for that now!

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  25. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 12:16

    I am just waiting for my comeuppance!

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  26. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 12:18

    Thank God for contact lenses!

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  27. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 12:18

    It took serious sculpting!

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  28. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 12:19

    Me too!

    No idea why my Mother agreed to the perm seeing as my hair is that curly anyway! No doubt I stropped to have it done until she agreed!

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  29. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 12:20

    I told you they were bad!

    Yes, the real me revealed at last!

    x

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  30. missleslieanne23 March 2011 at 12:38

    You lied to me Hayward - yours isn't embarassing! And neither is Tara's!!

    The story, however, is genius - Hugh Heffner would be proud.

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  31. muddleduck23 March 2011 at 12:41

    Haha!! God, I'd have never done anything like that at school, I was such a quiet nerdy nerd.....wish I'd been more ballsy now! :)

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  32. mumrablog23 March 2011 at 12:43

    Its bloody awful! Do you see those glasses????

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  33. Gone Bananas23 March 2011 at 15:55

    ROTFLMFAO that's hysterical!!!! I'm slightly jealous I didn't think of it! *wink*

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  34. Mari23 March 2011 at 15:59

    Brilliant story! And I love that smile, it says a thousand words

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  35. Jennie23 March 2011 at 18:54

    Classic school photo and a great story well told x

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  36. tiddlyompompom23 March 2011 at 19:21

    *whispers* I had glasses like that too...

    I expect your deputy head had personally confiscated all the pictures. Great story :)

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  37. Suburban Mum23 March 2011 at 19:48

    I had hair and glasses just like yours! Love the story!

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  38. fenngirl23 March 2011 at 20:19

    So naughty! I love it. Bad Mumra! x

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  39. Lindsey Welch23 March 2011 at 21:47

    Ha ha, what a brilliant story! Love it. Love the photo too. Weren't glasses trendy back then, my husband has some great photos too!

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  40. jobeaufoix5 April 2011 at 13:49

    OMG that's hilarious. I love that they were 35p too, a come and get it price. :D Hope you're ok lovely. x

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