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MM Links December [Week 2]
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Welcome to the second week in the reign of “Princess Di” (aka grannydi) as I continue with my personal history covering the next three decades of my life.
I spent my teenage years at a Girls’ School in the wilds of Bedfordshire, well insulated from the male population. It is a sad indictment for me to have to say that the highlight of our week was sometimes the visit of a MALE teacher to take us for Physics and Chemistry at “A” level. I proved to be reasonably good at Sport and was chosen to play for the school Lacrosse and Hockey teams. One advantage of playing for the teams was that we got cake with our team tea (quite a luxury as normally we only got cake on Sundays). We were well fed (even if we did get the odd ‘extra meat ration’ in our cabbage and salad). All our vegetables came from the walled kitchen garden, which the pupils were expected to keep weed free.
I spent my teenage years at a Girls’ School in the wilds of Bedfordshire, well insulated from the male population. It is a sad indictment for me to have to say that the highlight of our week was sometimes the visit of a MALE teacher to take us for Physics and Chemistry at “A” level. I proved to be reasonably good at Sport and was chosen to play for the school Lacrosse and Hockey teams. One advantage of playing for the teams was that we got cake with our team tea (quite a luxury as normally we only got cake on Sundays). We were well fed (even if we did get the odd ‘extra meat ration’ in our cabbage and salad). All our vegetables came from the walled kitchen garden, which the pupils were expected to keep weed free.
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It was quite a culture shock when I left school to go University.
As I was keen on science and good with my hands, I decided to take up the family profession - Dentistry. Newcastle University( Durham University, as it was then) beckoned as Mum’s family were all there, and it was (and still is) a very good Dental School. Of course, Dentistry has come on in leaps and bounds since my student days. When I think of how primitive procedures were when I was a student and compare how things are now, it is quite staggering the advances that have been made. It won’t be long, I believe, before fillings are a thing of the past. I remember when tooth (fissure) sealing first came out in the late 1970’s; I made sure that both my kids and my nieces had the treatment, some of the sealant is still in place 40 years on.
I can trace Dentists in my family tree as far back as the 1880’s (before that they were called ‘barber surgeons’) including my maternal grandfather (1890’s) and his brother (1880’s), my uncle (1930’s) – who unfortunately didn’t survive Dunkirk -- then me (1960’s) and now my daughter (1990’s). Strange though it may seem to some of you, we Dentists actually enjoyed our work and took great pride in treating our patients well. As my daughter told Bob Holdness, when she was on Blockbusters: ‘Dentists are very nice people'.
As I was keen on science and good with my hands, I decided to take up the family profession - Dentistry. Newcastle University( Durham University, as it was then) beckoned as Mum’s family were all there, and it was (and still is) a very good Dental School. Of course, Dentistry has come on in leaps and bounds since my student days. When I think of how primitive procedures were when I was a student and compare how things are now, it is quite staggering the advances that have been made. It won’t be long, I believe, before fillings are a thing of the past. I remember when tooth (fissure) sealing first came out in the late 1970’s; I made sure that both my kids and my nieces had the treatment, some of the sealant is still in place 40 years on.
I can trace Dentists in my family tree as far back as the 1880’s (before that they were called ‘barber surgeons’) including my maternal grandfather (1890’s) and his brother (1880’s), my uncle (1930’s) – who unfortunately didn’t survive Dunkirk -- then me (1960’s) and now my daughter (1990’s). Strange though it may seem to some of you, we Dentists actually enjoyed our work and took great pride in treating our patients well. As my daughter told Bob Holdness, when she was on Blockbusters: ‘Dentists are very nice people'.
I met my husband to be at the local rowing club and he took a fancy to me straight away – can’t think why -- but who was I to argue. We spent a care-free 5 years whilst I was a student (before graduation and marriage). We set up home on Tyneside where ‘himself’ was involved in the family manufacturing business. There, I worked for two years for the local authority before leaving to raise a family; namely a son and the aforementioned daughter. To be honest, child care bored me silly, so I got a part-time job in a local practice and for 25 years juggled motherhood, housework, dentistry and golf.
We also spent quite a lot of time as members of Round Table and Ladies Circle raising money for a variety of good causes. We had many happy hours shaking tins in pubs and around the town accompanied by Santa in his sleigh, collecting tinned food stuff and making up food parcels to give to the local pensioners who were finding it hard to manage on what the state provided. We took pensioners on outings and treated them to home-cooked meals. All were gratefully received and there were many happy smiling faces.
Eventually, after many years bending over patients, the dentistry took its toll on my back. After having to have a third operation on my back, I decided that my dentistry days were over and took early retirement.
We also spent quite a lot of time as members of Round Table and Ladies Circle raising money for a variety of good causes. We had many happy hours shaking tins in pubs and around the town accompanied by Santa in his sleigh, collecting tinned food stuff and making up food parcels to give to the local pensioners who were finding it hard to manage on what the state provided. We took pensioners on outings and treated them to home-cooked meals. All were gratefully received and there were many happy smiling faces.
Eventually, after many years bending over patients, the dentistry took its toll on my back. After having to have a third operation on my back, I decided that my dentistry days were over and took early retirement.
Down to the business in hand! As far as my MM Links are concerned, needless to say, I shall follow the rule on word length adopted by crofter. Each of my chosen link words contains at least four letters and at most eight. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts! Each of my selected words may go in front of or after my challenge word. The competition will officially close at 7.00pm on Sunday evening when crofter shall disclose my selected words, then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past.
My second set of four words to have their links predicted will appear below at 9.00am.
My second set of four words to have their links predicted will appear below at 9.00am.
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