Anita Roddick

[madwitch]

It was quite odd reading the news about Anita Roddick today, as I was at the same school as Sam and Justine Roddick. Frensham's a tiny school and everyone knew everyone, pretty much. Justine was several years above me, Sam just one, teenage girls with their Mums hair. Popular, friendly girls who weren't all 'I'm a Roddick' if you see what I mean, unlike Crispin tosshead and his 'but I'm a MILLS' attitude. At least as far as I recall (about the Roddicks. C Mills was always a tosser). :-)

I remember Sam getting expelled, which was quite a tricky thing to achieve at Frensham. Being ordinary rebellious just wasn't enough, it famously took almost a full school year to get two truly vile bullies expelled even after their preferred victim had to take half a term off because he was in such a state over it. The school would just say repeatedly that it 'recommended that X should not come back next term'. Sam going was a bit of a shock.

So I appear to be struck with odd nostalgia, and am feeling sad for Sam and Justine. They loved their Mum a lot.

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[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

Yeah sorry, I shouldn't have put it up, but couldn't resist...

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

I still remember the group of 15 year olds, sitting on one of the sports fields, just after we'd done our GCSEs. Some of us were leaving, some of us staying, but our 'us against the insanity of the Headmaster' year was breaking up and it just wouldn't be the same. So we made mad plots to invent stories about Crispin and sell them to the tabloids.

Not for the cash so much (though a bit). Mainly because he was a wanker.