schooldays

I have forgotten all about my schooldays. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

Yet it was not because I had to study that I used to weep, and in time I grew more used to things, and, after my schooldays were over, shed tears only when I was parting with friends.

"Call him RAYMOND FITZOSBORNE," suggested Diana, who had a store of such names laid away in her memory, relics of the old "Story Club," which she and Anne and Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis had had in their schooldays.

Prince Maiyo is a man, not an overgrown boy to go through life shooting birds, playing games which belong properly to your schooldays, and hanging round the stage doors of half the theatres in London.

Could this splendid six feet of manhood be the little Paul of Avonlea schooldays?

Of his schooldays we know little, but we can guess, for one story that has come down to us, that he was a shy, nervous boy.

So, when Gertrude met Lady Brandon, her lot was secretly wretched, and she was glad to accept an invitation to Brandon Beeches in order to escape for a while from the admiral's daily sarcasms on the marriage list in the "Times." The invitation was the more acceptable because Sir Charles was no mushroom noble, and, in the schooldays which Gertrude now remembered as the happiest of her life, she had acknowledged that Jane's family and connections were more aristocratic than those of any other student then at Alton, herself excepted.

SCHOOLDAYS were billed as the happiest of our lives, so what an angrily avoidable upset that two million children in England alone are sent to lessons in ill-fitting, frayed, dirty and inappropriate uniforms.

IHAVE very positive memories of my early schooldays, clearly down to good teachers who gave us the basic skills and manners to head into the real world.

During my schooldays in the late 1980s [when I was in Class 5 in my native district of Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India], we as students had often admired the fact that matchbox-sized TVs were available in Japan and that those TVs were the creative abilities of Japan.

Memories of Felling by Anthea Lang Memories of Felling Book With over 130 illustrations this book shows Felling's fascinating heritage and recalls schooldays, childhood, cinemas, pubs, shops, working life in mines and factories, local buildings and streets, as well as days to remember and people of the community.

The Best Days of our Lives: Schooldays is a funny, nostalgic book and will be on the bookshelves from October 1, in time for the Christmas market.