Me and sis were in a school for young ladies now and everyone had money. This is great if you haven’t just moved from a high rise in Seacroft.<\/p>\n
I remember that my reading aloud was considered animated and interesting enough to hold an audience and I was chosen to read in morning assembly. But I couldn’t talk posh. I came from Leeds and when I read about Jesus I said ‘luv’ and I cringed and wanted to die. I was 11 years old and was completely aware of the huge differences in social status.<\/p>\n
It was a good school though and I have no bad recollections of it at all.<\/p>\n
I remember my bright red, very high wedges for the school disco.<\/p>\n
I remember Mrs Davis our music teacher being appalled at Bohemian Rhapsody<\/p>\n
And I remember mum turning up half pissed in a long over the top pastel coloured gown for the school disco and walking down the corridor with the head and other teachers like she was something else.<\/p>\n
It’s that catch twenty two shit that you understand years later. She just wanted to be there for us, but she couldn’t do it without being drunk. I knew as soon as I saw her. She though she was Bette Davis.<\/p>\n
I cringe inside even now but with\u00a0 feelings of anger and pity and love at the same time. Pathos. That was my mum, bless her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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