re alternative history
i remember in 2005 when one wet Sunday afternoon
I created a whole six
hundred year history 1200 -1800
on one side of A4 of a
alternative European kingdom in
the area of Carolingian Burgundy Lotharingia
a
neglected area that had the makings of a nation state
The new Lotharingia was here called "Pria" stretching from the North sea to the Mediterranean a Cathar
religion state rising to
dominance after 70 % of
Europe's population die in the Black death and
powered by steam in this
single A4 world there would be no Bourbons, no Hapsburgs and few kings and fewer bishops
A post papal Rome
see white on red
saltaire of Pria and the united kingdom
I had interview for examinations officer at my old
school and I mean my old school
Sir John Deanes Grammar School Northwich
of 30 years ago doubt it appears
on US google search
for years a proud
top ten Ofsted sixth form
college it has lost none of its grammar schoolish elite attitudes and
self belief in its own
academic importance in a way
still very much justified.
Grammar school old boys the only one i went to school of among all the future prime ministers never realised,, Oscar destined actors still resting, scientists more in theory with
Glaxo than Einstein was a
boy in my maths set
who became a restaurateur and
often served President Jimmy
Carter
funny the future
prime ministers never came to much - luckily
I never mentioned my
great novel I was working on at the time.
strange for an old
boy of a
grammar school to see the hall turned into a cafeteria and the
surrounding classrooms like some tuck
shop fantasy run as
concessions for Starbucks and cafe Verde
less students in a larger
college and more management
noted that despite impressive
music dance media studies
drama and art departments (that follow
current UK trends in university
entry )
that there is no
religious education taught at A
level (my old top subject)
and little evidence of the once
pure mathematics and physics student
supremacy of the 1980s
no Greek and Latin on syllabus and for a college that was once strong
on modern languages in a modern world teaching the usual Ger Fr
Sp but not Bahasa as you find in other colleges
of that standing
I scored highly in the assessments one being ICT
but could not show how I could
do the job on supporting letter of application
It was nice to see
the old SJD again must think of a new nickname for it as "Saint Stinks" is so1980s
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