My Granddaughter just gone to an evening dance class.
I was never one for clubs and classes. No cubs, scouts, adventure scouts, football, band practice, Sunday school for me. Nothing.
Until the early 1970's kung fu craze and then I joined a Wing Chun club, a Judo Club and an Aikido club, which I had to drop. Too many clubs!
I did A-Level English at evening class and later on Woodwork.
We're you in any clubs or evening classes readers?
Are you now?
No, I wasn't, I was never one for that kind of thing. I contemplated further study but they seem to want to make everything online now and I am becoming increasingly analogue.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, are you regressing Kevin?
DeleteProbably. The more time goes on the more I question if the Internet was a good idea at all.
DeleteI wonder what Sir Bernard Lees thinks after inventing it and giving it to us all?
DeleteAlas, I never got to join any clubs, or take any evening classes. Wish I had, it sounds like fun.
ReplyDeleteGave you more time for modelling Paul.
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ReplyDeleteTufty club but
It all got a bit weird
And menacing after
A while and i had to leave
As all that road safety
Knowledge overwhelmed
Me,i was only 6 years old.
Wow, the Tufty Club. I hadn't realized it was a real club. I thought it was just on TV and in comics.
Deleteit was meant as a humorous comment paul.
DeleteHa ha, I thought it was 😂
DeleteI was in the Cubs, but never went into the Scouts, as I started at Grammar School and had too much homework.
ReplyDeleteLater I did amateur dramatics (school plays) after school, and joined the Literary Society.
I tried to join a local Super 8 Film Club, but they were all middle aged and rather old fashioned, so I gave up after a few visits.
In my 20s I went to evening classes in Basic Marxism.
No clubs for me since then, but I did take my son to play for the local Rugby Club on Sundays and Wednesdays, for several years.
You were quite busy Mish. So what kind of films did those middle aged chaps show?
DeleteMostly stuff they had made in the late 1950s and '60s (I visited them in 1978 or '79).
DeleteThey were particularly proud of having 'blown a car up' for one of their earlier films, so they showed me that clip. The only full film I saw was a short documentary called 'Decorative Wirework', about how to make wire edgings for your garden flowerbeds. It was competant, informative, but dull as ditchwater, so I didn't go back.
Ha ha, decorative wirework, that made me chuckle Mish. I see what you mean! No Godzilla or Harryhausen then!
DeleteI was in the Cubs and enjoyed the activities apart from the 'Duty to God' part of it. This meant religious stories every week from the Akela (bloke in charge). Sunday school had not interested me either as that was the same stuff so I gave up after a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteYears later I did tennis and badminton evening classes to improve my game and adult evening classes at the local college for work qualifications and even retook the A levels I had originally failed at school due to teenage hormones and bone-idleness.
You were busy too Yorkie! Church clubs were never for me either, as I really didn't enjoy going to church - I just wanted to play with my space toys! - and found stuff like confession rather creepy. How did you find A levels at night school?
DeleteAs I was older and more 'grown up' when I retook my A Levels in evening classes in my 20s I was much more determined to study and actually understand the subjects. They were a couple of evenings a week and the lecturers were happy to talk to you about any questions you had on the subject. You could take the exams after 1 or 2 years, or both if you didn't get the grade you wanted the first time! I would recommend evening classes as a great way to study though I think it's quite expensive these days.
DeleteI was still only 17 when I originally took my A levels at school (the 2nd youngest in the year as my birthday is in the summer holidays) and was very immature. At 17 you think you know it all. plus at that age at school you don't want to look a fool if you don't understand the teacher so just pretend to understand. The teachers were so busy with large classes that you didn't get the individual attention you get at night school. Failing them was a wake up call though it didn't actually affect my career much as I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do at that age!
Great memories Yorkie. I enjoyed reading them. I totally get that study is more. meaningful later in life. I left sixth form a year early, so no A Levels. I was rudderless and wild at 17. Got a job, joined a band and lived on my own, realising at 19 that I needed at least one A Level to study anything. I did English at night school and loved it. Read all the course books, which I wouldn't have done two years earlier, and sat the exam after a year. My fave books were Hard Times, supposedly inspired by Preston, my home town where I was at the time and the play, Murder in the Cathedral. Great stuff. I then lived on a bird reserve for a year! Ha ha
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