Did anyone actually like school dinners?

I remember at Jessy Jailhouse they once made lemonade semolina (seriously). I got some to try but it was truly rank. When I took it to the bint to clean the plate she sent me back to my seat to eat it (biitch)

I forced it down and approx 1 hour later while in class during a presentation i chundered like I have never chundered before. It went all over a scale model of jesmond rd school that the teacher had made. It probably took weeks/months to make. Serves them right for employing such awful dinnerladies like.

Also had the misfortune of tasting them same dinners. Do you remember Mrs Lund? What an old witch

The name doesnt ring a bell but I cant remember many names. I was there from about 83 to 89, you?

I remember Mr and Mrs Dodds. They were well into country dancing and stuff and felt the need to impose it upon the kids. Everyone else hated it.

Oh and Mr Tozer the headmaster followed by Miss Crighton (who I think is a magistrate these days)

The bad old days.....

Sounds like you are the same age as me Mr Disorder, did you go on to Tunstall, I started there in September 1989 from Lister Street/Eldon Grove

KIDS YOU CAN'T BLOODY MOVE FOR KIDS ON THIS BOARD

SCHOOL DINNERS I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT SCHOOL DINNERS
UP TO OUR NECKS IN MUCK N BULLETS WE WERE
THEN THEY TOLD US THERE WILL BE NO POTATO'S FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS
WE HAD EVERY DINNER YOU COULD IMAGINE AND NO POTATO'S
ROAST BEEF AND YORKSHIRE PUDDING WITH BREAD
EVERY MEAL WAS WITH BREAD
YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN WHINGE WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO WHINGE ABOUT.

the muck n bullets stuff is true our school hart road was previously a billet for soldiers and they had a rifle range at the back of the school either side of this school yard was a small garden that ran the length of the yard and about twenty feet across every time you lifted a clod of earth there was spent bullets sticking out
some kids collected marbles we hart road kids collected bullets

I was at Tunny between 90 and 95. Mr Maxwell, Cutland, Hairy mole et al

year behind me then, you will have been in the same year as my brother, who was the hairy mole then I can't remember that one

Lol, Miss Fawcett (she was known as hairy mole for obvious reasons and inevitably she got known as 'foreskin' too!) As kids we were so inventive!

I was at Jessie under Miss Crightons reign. I left in 93 though.

Mince and dumplings from the jailhouse dinner hall where top notch to be fair.

Worse than the dinners I was handed my debut for the footy team by a pube headed loid called Mr Brown. We did reach the semi final though of the half time penalty comp at the Vic. One of the games we played Hart during half time of a Pools V Stoke match. We all went around twice and the scores where still level and someone decided that sudden death would be decided by free kicks from outside of the box!!!? I swear to God the players where stood on the side of the pitch waiting to start the second half by the time yours truly curled the winner into the top corner

Yes

Anyone remember rutnut? dippy? death? geeballs? frisbee? NOBBY?

freak

'Tits' Fawcett we used to call her!

how come?

Was it because she had a fat arse?

I never understood why either

Oh no, wait, its cos she had MASSIVE tits!!

Aye, that was it!

Cheers Bri.

I went to tunny all those years ago and it has taken until now for someone to explain this to me. Thanks

I went to Jessie Jail house too, I remember a rumour being that Mrs Creighton had a wooden boob. A friend told us he had seen her planeing it!!

Naturally at the time we all believed it

I can 'knot' believe that. Who wood?

Thats just plane daft

If she planes it well enough she may have a great shelf!

Fawcett and I shared a mutual loathing of each other.

The look on her face when I got turfed out of the royal box at Newcastle theatre for being drunk and waving at everybody was priceless. I thought she was going to have a stroke.

A stroke of what??

trust you

I would never have thought of that

was there myself 69 to 74

You would have been in the same year as my brother then. I started in September 1991, two years later.

Give us his name then, I might have known him.

You tell me your name first. You probably would have known him.

Stephen Wilson, you probably could have guessed it from my e mail address though. Your brother might have known Mrs Ripper then she was in my year at school.

I don't know how to check your e-mail address. His name was Andrew Cave. He was usually up to no good, unlike me who was always a good girl.

I recognise the name but can't put can't put a face to it

I knew quite a lot of people in your year, but I don't recognise your name either.

You used to knock about with the older boys at school did you Tigga?

You'd not know Fensy though cos...

Howay then name some names see if I knew them then

No, didn't nock about with them, just knew them.

No-one in particular, I just know the people my brother used to hang around with, or people who went to Throston.