tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post5273333588578109638..comments2024-01-12T00:24:35.544+01:00Comments on St Bloggie de Riviere: Tooth and clawSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-87449729250668289692006-11-18T16:47:00.000+01:002006-11-18T16:47:00.000+01:00Howled with laughter remembering the school meetin...Howled with laughter remembering the school meetings for mine...much more of the "col Claudine/collier de Pearls/jupe plissée longue brigade - but just the same way of going on and on and on so as to get the most attention possible for their IMPORTANCE in the local society. The best laugh I had (remember it's some time ago for me) when I suggested giving the children a lecture about SIDA.....an outraged mother said "well abstinence is the only perfect protection from such a thing).....she obviously lived in Mars or Jupiter, with teenaged hefty healthy boys, like mine.......Abstinence....you must be joking!<br /><br />Of course some artists look like BCBG ladies.....don't they......like one you know - may be blonde & snazzy sometimes, but definitely looking like I fell of my horse with my joddies & boots and smart jackets!!!!Perhaps my art is therfore top notch too....mais l'habit ne fait pas le moine!!!<br /><br />NGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-2392470112678053482006-11-17T23:17:00.000+01:002006-11-17T23:17:00.000+01:00She may be very nice really... heheShe may be very nice really... heheSarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-29568667630927979872006-11-17T18:09:00.000+01:002006-11-17T18:09:00.000+01:00Not yet Colin - they are only 16!Not yet Colin - they are only 16!Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277397635514758674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-70041504640798618602006-11-17T17:57:00.000+01:002006-11-17T17:57:00.000+01:00You mean they've become teachers, Louise ?You mean they've become teachers, Louise ?sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-26594188325101174132006-11-17T17:22:00.000+01:002006-11-17T17:22:00.000+01:00Your posting made me laugh, Sarah and brought back...Your posting made me laugh, Sarah and brought back memories of my son at primary school in France. A great school but threatened with closure for lack of pupils - two thirds of the parents were 'baba cool' - peace, love, vegetarians, family-sized joints and clapped out old VW camper vans and obviously no running water in their teepees!<br /><br />The rest of us were the 'ordinary' parents who bent over backwards to keep the school open, baked cakes for fund-raising events, sat through awful evenings of 'loto' and did as much as possible to help that little school.<br /><br />The 'babs' of course did nothing but complain and as you said, kept the PTA meetings going until 10pm, grousing and griping and complaining and eventually the schoolmaster decided that PTA meetings would last exactly 2 hours and not a second more and no-one could talk for more than five minutes (which is more than enough).<br /><br />When we held fund-raising events, they of course contributed nothing but managed to eat their way quickly through the best quiches and grab the best bottle of wine before the innings had even started!<br /><br />My son still sees all his chums from that school when we go back to France - babs and non-babs - unfortunately the children of the peace and love gang have become as marginal, mean and unwashed as their parents.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277397635514758674noreply@blogger.com