I suddenly realised that today being Friday 13th and all it is my birthday next week. I'm past my mid-30s now and rapidly on the road to 40. Funny thing is it seems like yesterday that my friend and I were having a joint 30th party!
Things that have been making me feel old this week:-
- talking to the work experience boy at work and discovering he was born in the mid-nineties by which point I was old enough to drive, vote, drink and half way through university.
- having photos from my school-days posted on Facebook and realising next year it will be 20 years since we left.
- seeing school girls on the bus on the way home from my health appointment and realising that 25 years ago that was me.
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My old school tie |
My memories of my school days are strongly anchored with the daily journey there and back. Growing up in a village meant that all the village kids (regardless of which school they attended) got the same bus into the nearby town. As buses weren't that frequent a group of us around the same age used to sit at the back and enjoy the journey twice a day. The group of girls today didn't remind me as much of my friends and I as school-kids usually do. I suppose that not having mobile phones made us a bit quieter, but by degrees! School work wasn't discussed much as we were different year groups in different schools; mutual friends, who was going out with who, TV (some things never change) and general gossip. We didn't seem to have much to worry about back then!