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His delivery looked like yesterday when I stood for the reason that playground with one other blubbing mums. Today, his first day of college seems like yesterday. My school times seem so recent that I can barely believe where enough time has gone. I question does my dad, 76, however experience the same way he did at 20 or 30? He undoubtedly recalls school. He grew up in wartime Britain - here's what he explained about it...

I visited the Syntax school but don't know how I obtained in. We couldn't manage an effective standard therefore I had a hat and a classic hat with the school banner stitched on it, and cut-down men's trousers. I was bullied once and I can remember. They called us the 'New bugs' and I was taunted since I had a scruffy non-standard uniform."

And yet he explains it as enough time of his life. Number concerns, just freedom to perform and stroll at will. Interesting how our memories of our childhood may be picky isn't it? This was the early 1940s. His city was being bombed, his father was lifeless and his eldest brother was soaring in Lancaster Bombers around Nazi Germany.  Badges for schools  But there in the common bosom of his mom, all was fine. He could still read stones and go to college and understand therefore much fascinating new stuff.

And therefore I search back once again to my early college decades with fondness. The way the then-vast rooms now look so tiny. The walk about my son's new college last night included a tour. I was hit by the elf-like bathrooms and the Hobbit-sized seats! I've memories of PE in vest and knickers, making tie-dye, playing kiss-chase in the playground, and devices in the hall. I don't recall my mummy getting me on the first day, or making me, or almost any stress whatever. So, like my dad before me, time should have disappeared the poor thoughts and left me just with the sweetest smell of nostalgia.

Possibly it was more than just time. Possibly the enjoy and interest of my parents located an umbrella of safety around me. Perhaps it is not the area, enough time, or the cloth of the school developing which makes these memories therefore sweet. Perhaps it is more the collective memories of individuals in an idyllic childhood and the warmth of a warm family which endures.