My high school is being torn down in the summer as the power that be have built a new school. This means that there’s a reunitation type event taking place in June so that misty eyed ex-pupils can see the place before it is no longer there. As part of the events they’ve asked that any pupils with old photographs share them so that memories can be jolted and happy times remembered. I can find only one picture that depicts my school days and it’s the one below.
I can’t speak for the nine others but as soon as I saw this picture again I was transported back to the heady mid to late 1990s when Oasis and Blur fought it out a the top of the charts and clearly I couldn’t find a barber. I married one of the people in this picture and I’m still good friends with one other. That leaves seven people. Two are Facebook friends but the remaining five are no longer on my radar. To be fair Donna (bottom right) and I fell out before we finished school for a reason I can’t really remember. My bet is I said something mind blowingly insulting/stupid* to her. The fact that I don’t have a clue what the other five people are doing now shouldn’t really be a surprise as this was taken in about 1994/5 which is only 14/13 years ago. I wonder if sites like Facebook will put an end to this and we’ll know people for much longer than we used to. Even if ‘knowing’ them means seeing when they post a picture or talk about their new life, etc.
We were responsible for some of the finest student TV ever - FACT
Friday World
A’genda
Summer Fair
Talent Contests
Eventful Place
Anything that required a presenter/filming/sound & lights
* A talent I retain to this day.
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