A long, long time ago, in a time
so very far away, I was young. You may think that as a 16 year old I’m young
now – but as a teenager anything under the age of 11 is young. As a young
person I needed to be kept in check, to make sure I didn’t stuff my nose full
of crayons. There was a time before primary school where people didn’t care if
it was your birthday, indeed you yourself wouldn’t realise the significance of
that day. At the ages of 4 and 5 you were expected to attend Nursery. This was
intended to educate you in the arts of scribbled painting and squirting milk
out of your nose. That, or keep you occupied whilst your parents performed
their day job. However, as explained before, my father – Beanz – did not have a
day job, in fact his job didn’t really have a schedule, well not normally
anyway (If he was on tour then yes). Neither did his colleagues and friends.
That’s why, one day, when me and my 5 year old comrades were having a ‘who can
squirt the milk the furthest’ competition, we had a little surprise.
My dad and his friend Gregg
Leicester who worked with such groups as the Spice Girls came to sing a song to
our hyper minds whilst the teachers went out back to smoke a fag. They sang
such chart hits as ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ and ‘Humpty Dumpty’ whist the class sat
back and stared in wonder at these strange men and their wooden music making
contraption. Just a quick point, they didn’t go around to multiple schools and
do this – just ours, that would be creepy. From then on they performed with
that live audience of thirty about once a month, and no they didn’t get paid
for it. Nor did they do it for the possibility of being talent spotted by a
music guru, though to be honest famous musicians don’t tend to hang around
nursery’s. They did it out of the kindest of their hearts. They did it to bring
joy to all those small children. They did it because they had nothing better to
do. Unfortunately they didn’t repeat the act the following year when I was 6
and moved up to primary school, mainly because we were too busy colouring in
pictures of Winnie the Pooh and drawing pictures of pirates saving cowboys
through the medium of jerky scribbles. However, Beanz would lend his musical
talents a few more times to the school over the next 8 years, but that of
course is a tale for another day.
- I apologise for the length of time it's been since the last post, and the shortness of this one. Time has been short and other things have taken precedence. I try to make these one of these posts at least once every 1 or 2 weeks, the home page is reserved for special events -
- Nursery - Kindergarten
- Primary School - Elementary School
- Winnie the Pooh - Childrens cartoon made in the early 1920's
- The Spice Girls - Popular girl band in the 1990's (Before my time)
- Fag - Cigarette
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