to have forgotten what went with frangipan?

[Hullygully]

Skips prettily about the vast empty potentiality of the empty Hall and awaits.

Aaah howdy pardners ...

What you say hully is so true. I sometimes (uncharitably) wish I hadn't encouraged my DSs to be quite so emotionally expressive. It appears to have come back to bite me on the bum. But it is that pendulum swinging away from how I was brought up - keeping all your angst inside.

Jamieboy bit better. Did something uncharacteristically naughty at school yesterday, which mortified him beyond belief, with the unintended positive consequence that a cool male teacher has had a chat with him and will keep an eye out for him ...... Jamieboy perked up

Danny Zuko !!! < swoon >

Good for JamieBoy!

Ds's singing will be interesting. He is at that almost broken stage where it swoops about rather strangely...will have to sit at the back so can snort unseen.

BTW - I have had pretty much nothing but good female friendships. I don't quite get what's going on in these new-fangled days. So much competition to be pretty, sexy, and clever. I worry a lot about the pressures on girls

I was a bit horrid at school at this age (bad home ishoos etc), but not v horrid as always felt guilty, so do understand them, just don't know how to stop them. Perhaps envelopes stuffed with cash?

....... threats of damage to persons or property?

Hello all

I was an odd one at school at this age, was always in scraps due to sticking up for people being picked on and I didn't really start hanging around with other girls till I was 14/15 as I had my best friend since I was 5 at the same school. He was as camp at 5 as he is now and we always fancied the same boys.

He had a torturous time at school and would weep to me about wanting to kill himself (this was at 13) but as you say, back then, his parents had no idea how bad things were. Even at that young age I could never understand how other children could be so cruel and it broke my heart.

Funny how things change, by 6th form he was one of the most popular...

Ooooh good on your teenage self Tiny - I've never met anyone who ever stuck up for anyone getting picked on... I always wanted to be one of those but the most I could manage was not joining in .

I so would now though - I do tend to get involved when teenagers are fighting in the street

I think it was a good way to channel my angst

I'm the same now a veggie, peace/underdog loving idealist. Hate to see injustice but it's a double edge sword because you end up feeling such a pain about the way of the world and I found that very hard to deal with growing up.

My strict catholic school used to despair of me but luckily they knew my intentions were good even if I was forever outside the heads door

Ar you flashing your bush again Pag?

always Tiny Ape. Always

bloody fucking hell or what

I'm getting used to this new name now but it's still weird when people reply and it doesn't say gibbon

What's going on?

Pofaces on another thread. I knew there was a reason I don't strat them...

There there HullyGirl

Think of it this way. You got to see my nice bush.

Go on. Go and say something terribly terribly inappropriate...

you just want me in the shit too.

Aw Hully, it's a bugger when a thread goes tits up and no one listens to reason, is that what has happened?

Astonishingly someone didn't get Hullys sense of humour

Close your eyes
Try imagining a conversation with Hully if you have had both irony and sense of humour removed.

Then make it a chat about paedophiles.

I'll never get used to the way people charge ahead with their own agendas and ignore the point..

Pag - don't you think Backto sounds like (style wise) DP? (Go have a look GibbonAsWas)

Spot on, Pag. I love you.