General Chat

Buttercup, 'South Pacific' for us when the yacht,s had its £500,000 overhaul. Reading your late night column, it was a nice compliment, but I hope you weren,t Bal Hai when you typed it.(and please don,t wash that man straight out of your (red) hair). Happy days

Harry - you will never get old- you are younger than springtime...... XX BC

Thanks for your replies. Mandy, I hadn,t correlated family history with ordinary history, but bang on. we certainly got enlightened to social history through our research. Probably more down to earth than the Wars of the roses. Ady, when I was at school. it was simply a matter of remembering names and dates - that,s why I found it so easy. happy days

During the first two years of me being at secondary school, history was geared towards remembering significant dates, events and facts, e.g. 1066, the War of the Roses, Henry VIII's wives, and during that time, I was interested in history as a timeline and was able to absorb this information. When I did my exams in the 3rd year, we were given no warning as to the style of question and I was caught out by this when the questions seemed more to do with questioning your philosophies and moral beliefs concerning such events. If what we'd been taught in class had been geared more towards that style of question then maybe it would been okay, but it put me off continuing with history through to my GCSE exams. Give it time Harry, kids may be trawling through the wreckage of failed stars of Pop Idol in years to come, lol. :: tongue most definitely in cheek ::

I had no interest in history whatsoever when I was at school, music and the arts were my subjects. So I couldn't understand it when my son took such an interest in the subject (he is hoping to get a good enough GCSE grade to take it at A level); however, now that I've started family history, I'm really finding the past interesting. Of course, it's probably a bit different when it's your own family you're researching but I'm still intrigued by what happened in their lifetimes.

Ah well, Harry, they do say that history repeats itself, so just think what we've all got to look forward to! 'The Good Old Days', I think our parents called them. CB >|<

Thanks for the replies. History was the cause of me making a success in life... I always advise anyone to study it, becauseall you have to do is remember things. If you are no good with your hands, you can,t do well in woodwork, say. Iif you are hopeless at art, (I believe) , you can,t be taught to any high standard. Happy days

Yeah histroy eh Harry it makes you laugh, the one thing I enjoy is talking about history and over here it is great because they were only taught American history and are shocked that I learnt so much histroy at school, it is such a shame even with the cross words now my two have not got a clue LOL. Debs.

Reminds me of my son, aged about 4 or so, saying, 'Mummy, when you were little and the world was in black and white ...' I was too stunned to remember the rest of the sentence, but he'd only ever seen B&W photographs of me as a child, so it was understandable. I suppose that's called being 'mummified'. CB >|<

My grand-daughter came round earlier. We,re doing history at school - Muhammed Ali - he used to be called Cassius clay. What next - the beatles? Happy days