Do you have time to enrol on a course?
I know my mum is thinking of buying a new sewing machine, she has had her current one (a Singer) since the early 80's!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:43, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I have a sewing machine I got from Gumtree
bought with said grandma's will money. Back in manchester there's a good-sounding course at one of my favourite vintage shops. I'll see if there's a good WI in London, there seems to be a resurgence of that. Or I'll just join the KCL one.

I'm reasonably nimblefingered, I just have a problem with cutting in straight lines.
edit: the last time I tried sewing things it was a tear, and I failed, but I was hammered at the time...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:47, Reply)

I remember as a kid not being allowed to have my toys out in the living room
As mother was pinning a pattern to some material.

Ahh, memories.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)

Same, but for mother's marking.
Bloody teachers.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:00, Reply)

Were you a pupil at the school your mother taught at?
I always felt sorry for kids who had a parent teaching at the school.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)

No, I went to the BETTER school about 5 mins walk away.
My mother's post there was a major choice in me not going there. And the other school was better.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:07, Reply)

You think she'd have made the shit school better with her SKILLS
And given you the chance to get the top education!

What did/does she teach?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:16, Reply)

It's not shit at all, it's an excellent school.
But ours- it's insane. My year got 97.6% A*/A grades at GCSE the year I took them, or something.

Oh, she's a history teacher.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:18, Reply)