a so called state of the art comprehensive with all mod cons — except we couldn’t use all those mod cons because it was the mid 80’s and all funding had been cut so all access to the workshops that would have made life interesting were padlocked — because the school couldn’t afford any decent teachers

and the majority of pupils were a nightmare — the worse group of roughnecks anyone could ever have the misfortune to meet

So while some comprehensive worked, initially — political in-fighting ensured that the high minded principle of the system would be dismantled

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/streetworksfolder/streetworks.htm

This is a useful link in terms of being forewarned, but the details are always cryptic enough to make it difficult to pre-empt stuff.

atque perdicem in arbore

drew

Latin is a very good route to not only learning a lot of modern european languages it helps us engage with our past — Latin influences law, medical and scientific terms and the english language — laerning it helps unlock all sorts of “diffcult” words and terminology.

It’s also not about just learning verbs by rote, Classics involves the study of literature, art, philisophy, architecture, sculpture, anthropology, religion and history. I didn’t need to study latin and classics for my current career but i would say it braodened my horizons, made me love learning and probably helped me get better qualifications as i genuinetly enjoyed what i was learning.

Whilst on the topic of bad driving — I was on my bike yesterday and there was a police car parked in the bike box at the lights by the green.

Walworth Road has mildly improved. It can still take an hour to get to waterloo in rush hour though. I suspect cutting down on the amount of time it can take to get anywhere on public transport from Camberwell might also help cut down on the numbers who resort to using their car.