Young people today don't get to derail the lesson by asking 'sir, tell us about your National Service', and hear an auld scouser with love & hate knuckle tatts reminisce about the time he buried a hippy alive in a flowerbed 'but we planted the flowers back: it was the sixties.'
One of my lecturers was an ex A&E nurse and would suddenly stop and tell us about some of the most unusual objects that they'd removed from people's orifices. 😱
That has to be the first question one asks an a&e nurse, surely
I've not been able to look a garden gnome in the eye since.
You're surely too tall, anyway
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Oh there was so much more. Headhunter tattoos. A fond recollection I won't repeat on here cos kids will say homophobic/ gay stereotype - but very interesting re tolerance in 1960s working class. Also, Rudolf Hess. Teachers long retired now!