So many years ago when I was a child

[Anordinarymum]

I went to a Catholic school and we had mass on Mondays... It was back in the year dot when we had to fast before communion and if you didn't have communion the teachers wanted to know why.....

We all brought sandwiches which we ate after mass in the classroom.
My mother always made my sandwiches from the remains of yesterday's Sunday roast and she liked fat so the sandwiches had fat in them and it made me want to be sick..

Every Monday I hid the sandwiches in the drawer under my desk.

One Monday there was a bad smell in the classroom and the teacher located the cause. She pulled out all this rotting stinky stuff from under my desk and I got into a lot of trouble. She belittled me in front of the whole class and they all stared at me like I had committed a crime :(

I have never forgotten it. I was about 8. I hate lamb :)

I always remember...at school in the 70s in a very poor town where the local steel industry had gone down so kids were hungry and poorly dressed.

Someone took a bite out of someone else's apple. One bite....the lunches were left in the cloakroom so I suppose a kid on the way to the loo had been unable to resist.

The teacher...a bastard of the worst, bullying kind...lectured us all with the apple in his hand and questioned everyone about who could do such a thing.

A kid who was fucking HUNGRY that's who! Ignorant bastard.

Loads of the kids came to school hungry and until milk was served at 10.30, they probably had a stomach ache due to no food!

Terrible times they were. I wasn't poor as my Dad had a job...but so many didn't.

I remember kids coming to our house in the dark to ask for 50p for the metre. Mum always gave it. The thought of it upsets me still especially as so many kids are still living in poverty.

But you love spiders now 😉 and maybe can start liking lamb too !