Do you know how true that is?
My school was a private grammar school in East London. Three big houses joined together and the uniform was a striped yellow, red & bright blue blazers, similar caps and straw boaters with a matching ribbon in the summer and no long trousers untill you were 14.
( Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:15, archived)

And shoes made out of T-rex skin?

( Noit happy baby orangutan, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:16, archived)

Its lucky you didnt turn out to be some mincing mary-queen

( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:17, archived)

Chimney sweep school sounded a bit posh

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:19, archived)