Area you lived as a child

[Barchullona]

I can't tell you the names because that would reveal my identity. I've had eleven published this year for one of the three biggest educational publishers in the country. You can get them all on Amazon. They are all aimed at pupils taking the Key Stage 1 and 2 tests in English.

I do take picking me up on the inaccuracies in the right light and it is quite funny! I spent ages checking out the post before I put it up because I knew I would be a prime target! Proof reading skills, eh? My publisher pays someone to do that. You never see your own because you know what it is meant to say.

Liked this poster written by someone in higher education at a student rally.They could do with a proof reader.

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[The greengrocer]

We moved to Hull from Wakefield when I was six on New Year's Day 1962. We lived on Newland Ave till 1973 when we bought a house just past the roundabout on Cottingham Road although my parents continued running our shop till 1988. My early years were spent in the streets around Newland Ave and Pearson Park. I walked across the pond there in 1963 when it was iced over. We used to go fishing there. We didn't have rods or anything like that. We had some green pea sticks and some string. We only had a back yard but one of my friends had a small garden. We used to dig up worms, tie them to a piece of string, then tie the string the pea stick and dangle the worms in the water as bait. It work. We caught lots of sticklebacks that we brought home in jam jars to die the next day.

I went to Sidmouth Street school and then the Grammar School in 1966. It was probably the best school in Hull but that's because it only took the highest achieving pupils. I ended up my career working with but not for Ofsted. Almost all of the lessons I had at HGS would be classed as inadequate now but it's different criteria.. They were probably regarded as good then. They can't have been that bad as I now earn a living writing grammar, punctuation, spelling and comprehension textbooks.

Everyone's going through your post looking for errors now!

 

[Barchullona]

Everyone's going through your post looking for errors now!

Spotted two. Another might be the need for a comma after six in the first sentence, as it could read he moved on his sixth birthday which was on New Year's Day. Not that it really matters. Though commas, or their omission, can totally alter the meaning of sentences.

 

[DMD]

I still live as a child.

I tried growing up once, but found it overrated.

 

[originallambrettaman]

I dint go to a grammer school as my grammer was alredy good enuf

 

[Red top reader]

My cousin boxed with Ricky, I think he started off at Kingston ABC. I tried it once but it was far too painful!

The only time I've ever been in the ring was when I played rugby for shire horse, tony banham was our coach, he arranged a session in St. Paul's, at the end of the training session he paired us up and got us in the ring, 3x3min rounds, I was very fit in those days but after 2 mins I couldn't breath, he put me in with an ex amateur boxer a kid called tommo, I didn't lay a ****ing glove on him. Next day I couldn't get out of bed, was still ****ed.

 

[Barchullona]

The only time I've ever been in the ring was when I played rugby for shire horse, tony banham was our coach, he arranged a session in St. Paul's, at the end of the training session he paired us up and got us in the ring, 3x3min rounds, I was very fit in those days but after 2 mins I couldn't breath, he put me in with an ex amateur boxer a kid called tommo, I didn't lay a ****ing glove on him. Next day I couldn't get out of bed, was still ****ed.

Tony Banham, there was someone not to argue with.

 

[cdtiger]

He had two sons who went to Ampleforth. There were calls for his resignation when it came out.Typical hypocrisy, didn't want anyone else's kid gaining an advantage through going to a Grammar School but happy for his own kids having access to something the voters kids couldn' t.

Only Julian went to ampleforth on a full scholarship so any child that was as gifted as him had the same opportunity, that is as long as they were catholic. The discussion about wether he should be made to resign decided that anyone in his place would not have deprived their child a scholarship and had sort advice before sending him. His brothers went to Marist because they were school friends of my brothers and they definitely didn't go to Ampleforth. As it was a boys school at the time there was no way the sister could have.

 

[The greengrocer]

Tony Banham, there was someone not to argue with.

Yeah especially when you're trying to get in a pub underage and he's on the door!

 

[Barchullona]

Only Julian went to ampleforth on a full scholarship so any child that was as gifted as him had the same opportunity, that is as long as they were catholic. The discussion about wether he should be made to resign decided that anyone in his place would not have deprived their child a scholarship and had sort advice before sending him. His brothers went to Marist because they were school friends of my brothers and they definitely didn't go to Ampleforth. As it was a boys school at the time there was no way the sister could have.

Two of his kids went to Ampleforth. Laughable hypocrisy yet again from those on the left. They spend decades denouncing people who sent their kids to schools like Ampleforth but don't hesitate to use them for their own kids. If the likes of McNamara had got their way there wouldn't have been an Ampleforth to go to. Even more hilarious that they don't like others kids getting the chance of an education through passing an exam but getbtheir own kids in at schools miles away where they have to pass an exam to get accepted or just pay, something they criticise others for as well.

 

[Red top reader]

Tony Banham, there was someone not to argue with.

Do you know what he was a really good lad if you knew him,he had a soft spot for my Mrs. He'd help anyone he knew.... I liked him, strong as a ****ing oxo though , 5 of us tried to tackle him in training once, never again, knocked us over like skittles

 

[SW3 Chelsea Tiger]

For me. East Hull, westcott street just off holderness road, near east park.
Fab place to grow up

 

[Barchullona]

Do you know what he was a really good lad if you knew him,he had a soft spot for my Mrs. He'd help anyone he knew.... I liked him, strong as a ****ing oxo though , 5 of us tried to tackle him in training once, never again, knocked us over like skittles

He was a decent bloke, like most really hard men are.

 

[City Man]

Two of his kids went to Ampleforth. Laughable hypocrisy yet again from those on the left. They spend decades denouncing people who sent their kids to schools like Ampleforth but don't hesitate to use them for their own kids. If the likes of McNamara had got their way there wouldn't have been an Ampleforth to go to. Even more hilarious that they don't like others kids getting the chance of an education through passing an exam but getbtheir own kids in at schools miles away where they have to pass an exam to get accepted or just pay, something they criticise others for as well.

Yeah like the Abbopotamus,

 

[Kempton]

Hull Grammar did well in comparison with Grammar Schools in other cities who also took the brightest..

Something must have been right in those days as this is the only country in the developed world where numeracy and literacy levels are higher amongst 50-65 year olds than 18-30 year olds.

Sorry, but after reading your last sentence can't resist pointing out 'then tie the string the pea stick...' and ' It work.'

Tigger is a prime example of why people shouldn't try too hard to look for grammatical errors on a football forum, or anywhere else really.

I often think this when seeing one poster pull up another for a spelling mistake, or an 'improper sentence', Why? Don't you understand what he just wrote? Doesn't that make you the dunce?

 

[Barchullona]

Tigger is a prime example of why people shouldn't try too hard to look for grammatical errors on a football forum, or anywhere else really.

I often think this when seeing one poster pull up another for a spelling mistake, or an 'improper sentence', Why? Don't you understand what he just wrote? Doesn't that make you the dunce?

No, not really. And, there are plenty on here who can't understand a properly constructed sentence.Although anyone, including myself, who picks others up is fair game. If you notice you don't get pulled up on any errors.Mentioning you write books on the subject and then committing a couple of errors is leaving yourself open. Tigers took it in the vein it was intended.
A bit like those on quiz programmes who mention they have a degree in something and then get a question wrong when that subject comes up. I enjoyed one where the question was "In which modern day country was Troy situated, Greece, Italy, Sudan or Turkey?". Contestant, "I have a degree in history so I know it definitely wasn't Turkey...".

 

[Bengals Tiger]

I dint go to a grammer school as my grammer was alredy good enuf

... Skool ...

 

[Tigger]

Spotted two. Another might be the need for a comma after six in the first sentence, as it could read he moved on his sixth birthday which was on New Year's Day. Not that it really matters. Though commas, or their omission, can totally alter the meaning of sentences.

I was quite enjoying this thread!

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

No, not really. And, there are plenty on here who can't understand a properly constructed sentence.Although anyone, including myself, who picks others up is fair game. If you notice you don't get pulled up on any errors.Mentioning you write books on the subject and then committing a couple of errors is leaving yourself open. Tigers took it in the vein it was intended.
A bit like those on quiz programmes who mention they have a degree in something and then get a question wrong when that subject comes up. I enjoyed one where the question was "In which modern day country was Troy situated, Greece, Italy, Sudan or Turkey?". Contestant, "I have a degree in history so I know it definitely wasn't Turkey...".

Sort you "finger spaces" out.

 

[Kempton]

No, not really. And, there are plenty on here who can't understand a properly constructed sentence.Although anyone, including myself, who picks others up is fair game. If you notice you don't get pulled up on any errors.Mentioning you write books on the subject and then committing a couple of errors is leaving yourself open. Tigers took it in the vein it was intended.
A bit like those on quiz programmes who mention they have a degree in something and then get a question wrong when that subject comes up. I enjoyed one where the question was "In which modern day country was Troy situated, Greece, Italy, Sudan or Turkey?". Contestant, "I have a degree in history so I know it definitely wasn't Turkey...".

I meant to add it in there somewhere, that the grammar/spelling thing is very tedious and often puts an end to an interesting debate before it had a chance.

Oh and the reason I don't get pulled up, Is because I'm very popular