tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post114723173132858547..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Mrs L and the JellyfishThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1147349489880371322006-05-11T13:11:00.000+01:002006-05-11T13:11:00.000+01:00Rather more years ago than I care to remember, I s...Rather more years ago than I care to remember, I sat (and somehow passed) an A-level in RE, along with Biology and Economics.<BR/><BR/>Which is how I ended up in this fascinating office job...<BR/><BR/>Dude xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1147297489065229802006-05-10T22:44:00.000+01:002006-05-10T22:44:00.000+01:00Hi Goldfish, I've got to remember this idea of blo...Hi Goldfish, I've got to remember this idea of blogging to exorcise guilty feelings. They always seem to strike me at night. Also all the most humiliating moments of my life come and hover at the edge of my bed, laughing at me. Maybe if I blog them they will go away already!<BR/><BR/>I dunno, all these Board Exams and A-levels sound kind of tough to this wimpy American!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1147286078886574252006-05-10T19:34:00.000+01:002006-05-10T19:34:00.000+01:00Goldfish - I have a copy of Smith I'll lend you wh...Goldfish - I have a copy of Smith I'll lend you when I see you. I rather enjoyed it. And Worrals is correct about the plot involving hanging and highwaymen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1147282118431341592006-05-10T18:28:00.000+01:002006-05-10T18:28:00.000+01:00Lady Bracknell's editor not only sat an 'A' level ...Lady Bracknell's editor not only sat an 'A' level in RE, but went on to obtain an honours degree in Theology, and a PGCE in RE.<BR/><BR/>But then, Lady Bracknell's editor is a trifle <I>odd</I>.....Lady Bracknellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06140991035663374911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1147271758937334222006-05-10T15:35:00.000+01:002006-05-10T15:35:00.000+01:00Thanks guys,Thanks to Worrals' comment I have foun...Thanks guys,<BR/><BR/>Thanks to Worrals' comment I have found that the book was actually called Smith and the book was by Leon Garfiled. The cover on the <A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141319712/qid=1147271353/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3_3/202-5219649-6037418" REL="nofollow">Amazon entry</A> makes it look really quite exciting.<BR/><BR/>Oh the joys of English Speaking Board exams. I did a few when I was quite small (ten-ish) and did a talk on my hamster. The hamster was a lively fellow who insisted on making a racket through everyone else's exams; running on his wheel, chewing at the bars of his cage.<BR/><BR/>When it came to my exam he fell asleep and refused to be stirred...The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1147266226613439342006-05-10T14:03:00.000+01:002006-05-10T14:03:00.000+01:00Something very similar happened when i was doing m...Something very similar happened when i was doing my English Speaking Board examination. I had to choose abook, do a precis of the book, a lead in to the chapter, read a part of the chapter, then finish off what happened in the chapter and the book (in precis format again), as well as a number of other things. This was when i was 17, doing A Levels, but not A Level English. I chose "Sons and Lovers" by D H Lawrence, which my mom had done at English A Level and still had a "guide to" book as well as the original book, covered in tiny pencilled notes. I read through the guide to - you know the kinda thing, explains the book - and flipped through the original, picked out a chapter and did the job. Afterwards, one of the English A Level teachers (who had taught me at GCSE Level and bored the pants off me with "Far from the Madding Crowd" [To this day i cannot read Hardy]) said to me that it was a "great shame that i had not done English A Level" and that "that was one of the best readings of Sons and Lovers" she had ever heard. <BR/><BR/>In addition, I love Shakespeare and the school used to let me go on trips with the A Level class to various Shakespeare plays in the West End in my own time (I'll never forget seeing Daniel Day Lewis & Judi Dench in Hamlet) - the other A Level English Teacher said when i left school, that i was the "best A Level English student he never had". <BR/><BR/>huggggggsssssss - i hope blogging about it has been able to lay your guilt to rest.. <BR/><BR/>keth<BR/>xxkethryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02554372971928433781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1147263302005564312006-05-10T13:15:00.000+01:002006-05-10T13:15:00.000+01:00I remember Smith, but not the author - wasn't ther...I remember Smith, but not the author - wasn't there a convict who got hanged but survived, and didn't Smith escape from somewhere hiding inside his sister's crinoline?<BR/><BR/>Your teacher - I know/knew several ladies like that (not all teachers) and if it's any help, I think they all have a hidden ordinary side, too. You don't find out as a child but if you get to grow up around one of these sweet old ladies you see that everyone has a bad side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1147258798201657412006-05-10T11:59:00.000+01:002006-05-10T11:59:00.000+01:00Hello GoldfishI hope you got to sleep and your blo...Hello Goldfish<BR/><BR/>I hope you got to sleep and your blog exorcised the demon.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps a seperate private computerised 'notebook' just for your dreams and nightmares, would be effective. Once they are put 'out there', wherever out there may be, they have a different effect, are made conscious. Then the unconscious is so pleased to be taken notice off, it moves onto the next bit. <BR/><BR/>I did take notice of your earlier comment on your psychology studies, and hope my comments, from a Jungian perspective, are informative.<BR/><BR/>Jellyfish were my own childhood hell (I blame a holiday to Skegness, or was it Ingoldmells, or Scarborough !)but they took on the identity of adult anxieties in nightmares. Eventually, when taken notice of, they floated off.Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08223682934383856392noreply@blogger.com