Colour co-ordinated rubbish!

I like the way this glove actually blends with the scenery – a thoughtful loss for sure.

It also reminded me of a pair of gloves I’d had as a schoolgirl when colour co-ordination was all. This is not because of any fashion statement but the rigours of the school’s uniform policy.

It was a strange place for uniform –  and as an adult I’m not sure as a parent I would have been quite so compliant as my parents and others were. There were daft rules like girls below 6th Form age were not allowed to wear duffle coats – not freezing to death didn’t seem to take precedent over the privelege. We argued annually for a sweatshirt to add to the games kit, the old windcheaters weren’t as warming but were told young ladies didn’t wear sweatshirts. We had to wear brown knickers, plain not ribbed (I don’t even know what that means to this day) with our name tag in the back….I mean when would you be losing them???? When could you expect your trolleys to be featuring on a blog about lost clothing???

A strange old place and now a Barratt housing development so I guess somewhere down the line the rules lost out to common sense and it lost trade! Who knows. I look back and think it a dreadful shame that it’s now full of ‘designer’ rooms you truly couldn’t swing a cat in, those old corridors were fab, wonderful floor tiles, you could stamp your feet and listen to the echoes, the walls wooden pannelled and the quadrangles my aspiration to walk around!

But back to the glove, I’m not sure where it was taken, chances are that as nine times out ten I’m in and around Ullswater that it’s there but I can’t vouch for it! But it’s lovely isn’t it? I’d miss it.