2013-04-07 The London Classic 2013

I loved school so much. I got to wear red DMs, combats, tie dye, and grow dreads and whatever the fuck I liked. Cycling to school was normal if you lived a bit of a way off. My teachers were addressed as their actual names, 'Mary', 'Rob' and 'Terry', and I smoked black every day in 6th form, and used to get some heavy petting during breaktime off cute gothy girls. Got four A levels, didn't go to flippin Oxbridge mind.

Got a feeling it's going to be hard to find a school like that for my lad. It's all uniforms, single-sex, yessirnosir, get 11 Astars or you're fucked.

My college was like that, and it wasn't even that long ago, 2006-8. I does happen to be one of the most expensive schools in the country, but if I can I definitely want my kids to go there.