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December 03, 2003
fish and chips or free choice
That was the option, way back in the second form, that and The Old Boot.
A strangely sized piece of grey sugar paper, a scratchy, nasty, almost-still-a-twiggy, bit of charcoal, and the choice of: ‘fish and chips’, The Old Boot [cracked and covered in clay dust from being too long in the kiln-room], or free choice. We all knew what to choose. Fish and chips was a tasty meal, if a little greasy, but that’s as far as it went, all those words on the newspaper – no way! The Old Boot, well you just had to look at it to lose the will to live. No! We chose free choice, yes!
We could do, we could do - we could do anything: dog fights, in the air, all Spitfires and Messerschmitts, tracer shells and parachutes, twisting and turning – complete with sound effects, ack! ack! ack! ack – yeah! No problem! So we’d pick up the knotty, grubby charcoal and… and – and well, nothing. Er… I’m stuck, sir.
The girl in the corner, with the beautiful hair, who didn’t say much, drew The Old Boot, and not only got top marks, got her picture put in a frame on the wall of the corridor to the Art Room.
Flux level: remaining steady, no change expected until later.
Posted by john at December 3, 2003 11:37 AM
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