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Duties to Sixth Formers on the A-level Secretarial Course in there. Later the whole block was given over to Art Rooms.
The only advantage of the new block over Tudor House was that on a wet or windy day one didn’t have to tackle that dodgy fire escape which could get quite slippery when wet!
From Janet at 10.36
I don't think they would get away with demolishing it today! In Tamworth they cleared a row of 16/17thC dwellings and built Ankerside shopping centre - need I say more! It was an attractive grey cement colour!
Monday, 18th May
From Val M. at 10.59
Thanks, Janet and Jenny, for your thoughts and memories. I am also finding this email exchange a thoroughly enjoyable experience and I think you, Jenny, have nailed exactly why it is such a pleasure. I am loving hearing of others’ experiences and lives in lockdown and all the reminiscences and I also love looking at my computer and seeing that yet another message has dropped in. I am relishing having much more frequent contact with friends whom I do normally ’talk’ to, one way or another, but not usually as frequently as this, and having much more contact with others who are not usually such frequent correspondents (Cary!) and then getting to know those I have had little or no contact with over the years. And Jenny is so right about the support we can give each other because we once knew each other so well and it is no good pretending to be other than you are to people who knew you from 11 to 18. And we do know what basically has happened to us all since then and as Jenny says lots of us have had big losses to deal with in our lives and some-how we can feel secure with each other. Well I can anyway.
Janet, the recipe for Elise Mayer’s Belgian chocolate cake please!
I don’t know if anyone is beginning to champ at the bit, but I am. As Glenda emails to tell me that two of the hotels we are booked in for our Northumbria coast path walk have cancelled, which means at best, and hopefully, we can move the walk to September (when I am probably house extending, so not ideal) and our fortieth annual family holiday in Pembrokeshire at the end of this month is obviously not going to happen, so I feel deeply the contraction of activities - just the idea of seeing some different scenery.... And just as restrictions on Dartmoor and the coast are relaxed, so my daughter gets ill again with some recurring virus (not covid, if the test was accurate) and I have her girls most of the day, after which I have not the time or energy to go anywhere. I really shouldn’t complain - the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the girls are delightful.
I don’t know what other people are doing with their time but I can’t relax and work my way through BBC iplayer in the evenings without something to do with my hands. So here’s my latest activity. Anyone else doing anything crazy?
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