Back in my day...

Inspired by a Monthy Python skit the students had some fun imagining they were grumpy old men or women talking about life back in their day. Here are a few excerpts from their writing. It makes for entertaining reading.

Back in my day, we didn't have those fancy clippers for our hair, no we had a match and a bucket of water. Ya light your hair on fire to singe it to the right height, then take a plunge in the water to cool off, and that’s the way we liked it.

If we didn’t listen to Mum, she would cut off our ears plant them in the ground in hope of growing us some good ones.

I had to bike 30 miles on a three wheeled trike which only had two wheels, to school.

I had to do my homework with a feather and a dollop of warm, gooey, cow manure.

I used to have to walk without shoes every day across melting tar roads, leaving my feet so black afterwards, that I couldn't get it off even if I scrubbed it off with a steel tooth brush.

We had to walk 5km to just milk the cow for breakfast. For dinner we would spend all afternoon catching flies with our tongues.

Back in my day, we didn’t have any fancy whiz bang gizmos to help us, Ya no what we had… Bricks!!! Brick phones as big as 5 cassette tapes! Although I suppose you don’t know what they are, with all your new fancy wireless CD’S, and CD players. We didn’t have those fancy vacuum cleaners, No no no, we had to wipe our feet before we went outside, that’s how dirty it got.

Back in my day if we wanted to watch a show we would stick a piece of glass in front of us, have someone dancing behind it and Bing Bong Bangliboo, you had a TV. 

Back in my day when we went to war there was none of these bang bang things, all we had was a rotten old bone and some sunflower seeds.

For games, we had a thing called a cucumber, you plant it in the ground and watch it grow.

Back in my day all we had for television was to go out into the field and watch the planes get shot down during World War 1.