Five Firsts

joanlawson

Hi

Here are 5 firsts.

1.What was your first job?

2.Who was your first love?

3. Do you remember your first day at school?

4.When did you first leave home?

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents?

Joan

valval

joanlawson wrote:

Hi

Here are 5 firsts.

1.What was your first job? mc fisheries saterdays

2.Who was your first love? that would be telling

3. Do you remember your first day at school? yes sat at table with strangers in new clothes and mum left

4.When did you first leave home? when got married 1983

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents? went away with sea cadets and also a cruise with them was amazing on the ss ugander in 1977

Joan

mellman01

First job trainee stockman on a local farm.

First love was a daughter of a mechanic who worked at me dads garage.

First day at school I wailed like a banshee!.

Left home when I was 22.

First holiday was a boating holiday when I was 18,went with me sister her now husband and her best mate.

dippydoodah

valval wrote:

joanlawson wrote:

Hi

Here are 5 firsts.

1.What was your first job? Saturday girl in my Aunts bakery

2.Who was your first love? My husband

3. Do you remember your first day at school? no but i remember toy day on the last day of term

4.When did you first leave home? moved into a terrace house just before i got married in 2000

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents? Italy skiing with my high school for a week


Joan

annie_mial

My first job(s) - Saturday jobs, morning working as a packer in a laundry/afternoons working at a boarding school as a 'housemaid'.

My first love - ooh, yes, remember him well at school.....he was tall, dark and handsome........but what the hell was his name?

My first day at school - remember that vividly.....I bawled for 5 mins, decided I was having nothing to do with it, and legged it home. Mum had gone shopping on her way home, so I got there before her........was sitting on the doorstep waiting when she arrived.

Left home? Sort of left at 10 to live with relatives, left finally when got married in 1965.

First holiday without parents? See above!

Annie

snowball

My first Job was working in a hairdressers on a saturday sweeping up hair.
My first love was called Andrew i was going to marry him, i was only 7.
First day at school sitting in the hall with my mum and new gym bag writing my name with a crayon on the back of some wallpaper.
Left home when i was 21.
First holiday without parents a school trip 5 days in Germany (Black Forrest) went the day before my 13th Birthday.
Julie

joanlawson

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents? went away with sea cadets and also a cruise with them was amazing on the ss ugander in 1977

Hi Val

I remember about the SS Uganda. They were marvellous educational cruises, weren't they? I think the ship served in the Falklands War too.

joanlawson

Hi Mel

First day at school I wailed like a banshee!.

Ahh, I can imagine it well :!:

valval

joanlawson wrote:

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents? went away with sea cadets and also a cruise with them was amazing on the ss ugander in 1977

Hi Val

I remember about the SS Uganda. They were marvellous educational cruises, weren't they? I think the ship served in the Falklands War too.

yes but we helped around the ship the schools had class rooms lol was amazing fun it went as a hospital ship then they decomisioned it after shame got great memories of it we pain a third of what the schools did and had more fun 25 girls to 60 boys lol then all the school ones as well heaven for a fifteen year old

joanlawson

annie_mial wrote:

My first job(s) - Saturday jobs, morning working as a packer in a laundry/afternoons working at a boarding school as a 'housemaid'.

My first love - ooh, yes, remember him well at school.....he was tall, dark and handsome........but what the hell was his name?

My first day at school - remember that vividly.....I bawled for 5 mins, decided I was having nothing to do with it, and legged it home. Mum had gone shopping on her way home, so I got there before her........was sitting on the doorstep waiting when she arrived.

Left home? Sort of left at 10 to live with relatives, left finally when got married in 1965.

First holiday without parents? See above!

Annie

Hi Annie

I like your account of your first day at school. I bet your Mum got a shock when she came home :!:

joanlawson

Hi Dippy

2.Who was your first love? My husband

That is lovely, and quite unusual.

joanlawson

snowball wrote:

My first Job was working in a hairdressers on a saturday sweeping up hair.
My first love was called Andrew i was going to marry him, i was only 7.
First day at school sitting in the hall with my mum and new gym bag writing my name with a crayon on the back of some wallpaper.
Left home when i was 21.
First holiday without parents a school trip 5 days in Germany (Black Forrest) went the day before my 13th Birthday.
Julie

Hi Julie

Strange how little details like writing your name on some wallpaper stays in your memory.

annie_mial

joanlawson wrote:

annie_mial wrote:

My first job(s) - Saturday jobs, morning working as a packer in a laundry/afternoons working at a boarding school as a 'housemaid'.

My first love - ooh, yes, remember him well at school.....he was tall, dark and handsome........but what the hell was his name?

My first day at school - remember that vividly.....I bawled for 5 mins, decided I was having nothing to do with it, and legged it home. Mum had gone shopping on her way home, so I got there before her........was sitting on the doorstep waiting when she arrived.

Left home? Sort of left at 10 to live with relatives, left finally when got married in 1965.

First holiday without parents? See above!

Annie

Hi Annie

I like your account of your first day at school. I bet your Mum got a shock when she came home :!:

She wasn't surprised........she knew me well. Took me straight back there and they had discovered I had gone, of course. Mum got them to give me a book to read........no problems after that. I looked on early school as a milch cow for books! Oddly enough I don't remember getting into any 'trouble' for it!

Annie

joanlawson

Better answer my own questions:

1.What was your first job?

A primary school teacher at a school in a mining village. Great kids.

2.Who was your first love?

A boy who sat next to me at school aged 11. He let me copy all his maths because I couldn't do it. Wonder why I falied the 11plus?

3. Do you remember your first day at school?

I remember threading some beads on a shoelace and thinking why am I doing this?

4.When did you first leave home?

Left home at 18 to go to college in London. Thought I was the bees knees!!

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents?

Aged 12, I went to Spain with school. Absolutely loved it.

snowball

Joan i don't know why i remember that but it has allways stuck in my mind.
julie x

joanlawson

It's the same as me remembering threading the beads. Why would such a small detail stay in my memory for so long :?:

skezier

Hi Joan,

1.What was your first job? Slave labour in a riding stable as a week end job.

2.Who was your first love? Like Annie I don't remember his name but I rally loved him and we used to spend hours together as well..... Was he called Richard, I don't remember.

3. Do you remember your first day at school? Yep they had to lock the doors to keep me in and yelled a lot cus I could open and climb through windows...... I fine tuned truancy as I got older

4.When did you first leave home? When I was 5 r 6 I went to live with my Nan and Grandad for a few years. I had to go back but left for good at 16.

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents? Same as Annie here see above really and the were good years

Hope your ok? Cris x

tkachev

joanlawson wrote:

Hi

Here are 5 firsts.

1.What was your first job? at a plant nursery.

2.Who was your first love? David and I were inseperable aged 5-10.Then we sort of fell out.He had 5 kids by his early twenties! Sadly he died when he was 24 in a building accident leaving his 5 children fatherless.

3. Do you remember your first day at school?I know had left within 3 weeks cos I hated it so much.

4.When did you first leave home?16 I got a bedsit as I couldnt stand my parents argueing. I did go home a lot though cos I missed myhome comforts.

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents?I went to a camp at Hind Leap, East Grinstead aged 10.We did climbing and assault courses.

Elizabeth

Joan

ninakang

1.What was your first job?

Working in a care home for the elderly. They treated the residents really badly (cheap food, never took them out anywhere) and I hated it.

2.Who was your first love?

Sham when I was 14. I fell for him pretty badly, he didn't even know I existed... it still makes me smile to think of my "agony" :-)

3. Do you remember your first day at school?

I remember the smell of polish and disinfectant more than seeing anything.

4.When did you first leave home?

When I got married in 1997.

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents?

Belgium with Primary School when I was 10. I loved it, but was very homesick towards the end of the 2 weeks!


Nina X

katekelly

joanlawson wrote:

Hi

Here are 5 firsts.

1.What was your first job? Potato picking for local farmer- slaved all day got 50p and one of his wife's cakes which was stale!!

2.Who was your first love?Other than David Essex!!!- the post mistresses adopted son named Steven

3. Do you remember your first day at school?Like other only remember the smell of cheap undercooked fishfingers YUK!!!

4.When did you first leave home? When I was 17 to move back to England.

5.What was the first holiday you went on without your parents?Week in Hyde at a Haven Caravan Park! With an Ex, his family and his 2 year old daughter from his previous marriage..... I should have realised after that it was all doomed!!!!

joanlawson

Thank you for all your answers on here. All very interesting! I'm thinking up some '' Lasts'' now.