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Davie
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Location: Glasgow

Post by Davie » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:03 pm

Where I lived in Glasgow we used to call it dogging school
Like Wini, ah went to School in Dennistoun and we dogged it.
Not me personaly mind.
Jist in case ye don't know it Wini

I was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow EE-WAN, [E1]
I made butter in a boattle, jumped the dykes an’ kicked the can;
At dodgie-ball I ducked, at Whitevale Baths I dived;
There was naeb’dy then to tell ye that your childhood was deprived.

CHORUS: Oh the Glasgow I belong to is the Dear Green Place
It’s the capital o’ Culture, it’s a dampt disgrace;
It’s Kelvinside an’ Calton, pan-loaf, plain breid;
It’s the Tron an’ the Tramway an’ the Sarrie Heid!

For ma yooni education, I went over to the West.
Walkin’ hame frae Union dances is the bit that I mind best;
Two o’cloack in the mornin’ has a magic all its own,
Even in North Woodside Road an’ Dobbie’s Loan

I began ma teachin’ in a northern housing scheme--
The “neighbourhood unit” of the Corporation’s dream.
Their plans were well-intentiont but, to say the least, bizarre:
Forty thoosan’ drinkers an’ no a single bar!

Eh’ve lived on the South Side noo two decades and a hauf;
You can tell the way Eh’m talking that Eh’ve became a toff.
It jist only goes to show you how one lives and learns:
You’d swear Eh’d been born in Clarksting or in Newting Mearns.

Workers’ City, Merchant City, Glasgow on the Clyde!
It’s the Workshop of the Empire, East End, Sooth Side!
Frae Castlemilk tae Possil, frae the Drum tae Provanmill,
I belong to Glasgow and I always will!

pinkshoes
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Location: Yorkshire

Post by pinkshoes » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:04 pm

My part of Stirlingshire favoured "plugging" - not that I ever did it of course :wink: Well, OK then - actually got caught at it, not red handed, but by forging the obligatory note. Got through registration with headmistress OK, thought "we're safe". No such - got message at next class that three of us were required in Head's office pronto. It was terrible - they even told my mammy - she went cuckoo :oops:

I would like to say it taught me a lesson, but ... nae wonder I don't know a bee fae a bull's fit aboot anythin' :lol:

Pinkshoes

CathieL
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Location: Florida USA

Post by CathieL » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:13 pm

David WW
I went to school in Dunoon in the late forties and the fifties and if you helped yourself to a day off it was called plunking.
Cathie
Researching- Stewart. Connolly,McQuade, Coyle,Kelly, Farrell, McKenna, Ward. Kenny.

StewL
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Location: Perth Western Australia

Post by StewL » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:52 am

I have to confess that over here in West Oz I was a roll prefect (for a time) :oops: Until I was caught marking lads present when they were awa. Ouch I can still feel the cane I received and being drummed out of the ranks of roll prefect. Although nothing compared to what happened when my mother found out :shock: Although I must admit she covered for me when I got caught plunkin school. :oops: Or was that the time when I was actually taking my brother to the dentist :wink:
Stewie

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Davie
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Location: Glasgow

Post by Davie » Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:43 pm

Here is an interesting site on the subject
The notes sent in by parents? to excuse the wean frae Skool etc
are guid.
"Please excuse N for being absent as he had diahorrea through a hole in his shoe"
http://www.allscottishteachers.co.uk/

DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:45 pm

Davie wrote:Here is an interesting site on the subject
The notes sent in by parents? to excuse the wean frae Skool etc
are guid.
"Please excuse N for being absent as he had diahorrea through a hole in his shoe"
http://www.allscottishteachers.co.uk/
Is anatomy different in Glesca <ROFL> as no available smilie here is anything approaching adequate :!: :!: .....................

David

AnneM
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Post by AnneM » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:00 pm

In Dunoon it was definitely skiving. I remember well an offering in the school magazine not I hasten to add by me which ran something like:

Oh, skiving is my one intent
To follow winding paths
Especially when it's Tuesday morn
And I've got double maths

I have to admit to having been a non skiver. Actually I think that it was because of people like me that large sporty girls thought that hockey was actually called bash the swot!

What a sad person!

Anne
Anne
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Russell
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Location: Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire

Post by Russell » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:47 pm

Hi Wini

We must have been around East Lothian at the same time Armstrongs bus service ran between Ormiston and Turnent as well as Eastern Scottish (the green & cream ones). If you walked to Winton you must have turned off the road down to the big house & estate (can't remember its name!) across ro Pencaitland down the Macmerry road & back to Tranent. Roads wer quiet in those days!
We used to go down to Ormiston station then walk along the railway line up to Pencaitland gathering wild strawberries on the embankment. Despite red lips we still got enough to make jam !
The cub troop I went to was in Tranent and we travelled alone on the bus. Suggest that these days and responsible adults would have an 'Annie Rooney'
Those were the days I didn't think they were carefree and innocent until recently. My mother was asked to complete a SCRO check form to allow her to teach country dancing at the local school. - She's 93 fer goodness sake!!!

Russell
Working on: Oman, Brock, Miller/Millar, in Caithness.
Roan/Rowan, Hastings, Sharp, Lapraik in Ayr & Kirkcudbrightshire.
Johnston, Reside, Lyle all over the place !
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Watson, Morton, Anderson, Tawse, in Kilrenny

STUARTDALGLEISH
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Post by STUARTDALGLEISH » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:16 pm

Never mind doggin' school....... hands up who could write a note from mum or granny. I became an expert and even signed it

Janet Jack
Grandmother

I had her writing down to a T

on ye go......till I got caught......aya
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joette
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Post by joette » Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:41 pm

No me I would write a note from my "Father" as he never did this job.Never got caught.A fav was the Dental Appts.I had troublesome teeth & would spend a lot of time in the Dentist chair.The card would have the next appointment added.I would add one to fit into a Wed.Afternoons double Maths/french.Worked a treat- about the only time in my life when i have got away with any misdoings!
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WADDELL,ROSS,TORRANCE,GOVAN/DALMUIR/Clackmanannshire
CARR/LEITCH-Scotland,Ireland(County Donegal)
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