03 Dear Teacher
“Extract from the Ragley School Logbook: Monday, 1 October 1979 IT WAS 8.30 a.m. on the first day of October and, outside the staff-room window, the season was changing. The hammock webs of busy spiders glistened in the morning sunlight and in the hedgerow the red hips of dog roses heralded darker days. Robins and wrens sang their autumn songs to claim their territory, while goldfinches plundered the seeds of the tall teasels.
Meanwhile, Ruby the caretaker pushed her galvanized bucket to one... side and leaned on the staff-room door. It was clear that the wonders of nature were not uppermost in her mind.
‘Ah want t’look like ’er in Abba,’ said Ruby.
Ruby Smith weighed twenty stones and, in her extra-large double X, bright-orange overall, she looked a long way from a Swedish superstar.
‘Which one?’ I asked politely.
‘Not that blonde lass,’ said Ruby – ‘t’other one.’ It was unusual for Ruby to be so late in putting away her mop and bucket.MoreLess
Meanwhile, Ruby the caretaker pushed her galvanized bucket to one... side and leaned on the staff-room door. It was clear that the wonders of nature were not uppermost in her mind.
‘Ah want t’look like ’er in Abba,’ said Ruby.
Ruby Smith weighed twenty stones and, in her extra-large double X, bright-orange overall, she looked a long way from a Swedish superstar.
‘Which one?’ I asked politely.
‘Not that blonde lass,’ said Ruby – ‘t’other one.’ It was unusual for Ruby to be so late in putting away her mop and bucket.MoreLess
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