tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post5994887289687577433..comments2024-03-28T20:33:10.911+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: SchoolingYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-34147216221694746132011-01-02T19:16:29.131+00:002011-01-02T19:16:29.131+00:00JAN Perhaps it was really you who taught Bob to be...JAN Perhaps it was really you who taught Bob to be a good friend?<br />PAT ARK. I would definitely have put changing a tyre on my list if I had thought of it. It seems amazing that people are allowed to drive cars without knowing how to do this.<br />ELIZA - First year of secondary school is now Year 7 (in England and Wales). You were lucky to learn something about China. I learnt nothing about a country that is home to one third of this planet's population.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-30815114703543746562011-01-02T04:57:47.068+00:002011-01-02T04:57:47.068+00:00Great list, school would have been much more inter...Great list, school would have been much more interesting. Mind you I did do Chinese history in the first year of secondary school, not sure what that year is in the new system.Elizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10810638337124194629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-34156469608851797892011-01-02T03:45:40.338+00:002011-01-02T03:45:40.338+00:00Good list. I would add: how to change a tire. (Tyr...Good list. I would add: how to change a tire. (Tyre?) My father would not let me learn to drive until I could do that by myself. The ability has come in handy a few times.Pat - Arkansashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11623638376731374600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-90759497616063530932011-01-02T02:09:02.924+00:002011-01-02T02:09:02.924+00:00My son went to a Waldorf school and he actually di...My son went to a Waldorf school and he actually did learn some of those things, and quite a few other useful things that aren't taught in the public schools. The most wonderful thing he learned there was how to be a good friend.Jan Blawathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06697621979002856884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54392409224827842742011-01-02T00:28:07.502+00:002011-01-02T00:28:07.502+00:00JOHN GRAY Such a skill could have easily been taug...JOHN GRAY Such a skill could have easily been taught by simply bussing in girls from the local high school.<br />HELEN HELSIE So sorry to hear about the terrible floods in Queensland. Proving once again that God moves in very, very mysterious ways!<br />MOUNTAIN LADY Happy New Year! Ley lines are essentially invisible lines of connection between significant points on ancient landscapes. For example, Stonehenge is a veritable fulcrum for ley lines. Google it. Others can tell it better than me.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-44896356979344549572011-01-01T22:22:16.153+00:002011-01-01T22:22:16.153+00:00Now, John Gray, would that class for you have been...Now, John Gray, would that class for you have been show-and-tell? You cad!<br /><br />Mr. Pudding, "what is ley line theories"?<br /><br />Nowadays, I think even less is being taught that is worth very much. But then, I also believe that parents need to take some responsibility in the education of their children in some of these basic tenets. <br /><br />But, not that thing that John said he would have liked to be taught. That we will leave up to older friends, eh?Peace Thymehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17361079101751470855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-24032732124081714112011-01-01T21:51:39.944+00:002011-01-01T21:51:39.944+00:00Happy New Year YP. Hope yours is full of fun and a...Happy New Year YP. Hope yours is full of fun and adventure.It has been fun visiting you and sharing the times- good and bad - with you this past year.<br />Cheers<br />HelenHelsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136273834165751276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-47308780159886293582011-01-01T20:42:28.280+00:002011-01-01T20:42:28.280+00:00add to the list
How to unfasten a woman's bra...add to the list<br /><br />How to unfasten a woman's bra<br />in the dark!John Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-82866872995047763632011-01-01T20:09:09.921+00:002011-01-01T20:09:09.921+00:00DAPHNE, JENNY, LIBBY I think the idea for this pos...DAPHNE, JENNY, LIBBY I think the idea for this post came from the realisation that our clever daughter - at university in Birmingham - revealed that she had no idea how to change a fuse in an electric plug - but she can write a mean academic essay!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-91219368262392523342011-01-01T19:14:48.764+00:002011-01-01T19:14:48.764+00:00Couldn't agree more..have always thought that ...Couldn't agree more..have always thought that we should be helping youngsters to function in the world of now....libbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05552884005601003691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-72608000418594653812011-01-01T17:38:21.445+00:002011-01-01T17:38:21.445+00:00Some of those things would have been far more inte...Some of those things would have been far more interesting than the physics and chemistry that I struggled with - Soooo boring!Jennytchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13621488409334115930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-12966487899753321052011-01-01T16:58:29.898+00:002011-01-01T16:58:29.898+00:00Too right! Especially the one about how life is s...Too right! Especially the one about how life is short - - the school I went to behaved as though you were going to spend almost all of it doing homework: and in fact I spent most of my teenage years doing little else, grrrrr!Daphnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469075813149239051noreply@blogger.com