Remember when with penny...

Our columnist remembers how, after the school summer holidays, came the joy of new stationery

At 16, I was doing my first year of A levels at a minor public school in Oxfordshire. I’d done pretty well in my GCSEs – I got one ‘B’, which disappointed me, but it was biology and I don’t feel it’s

I look at pictures from my school days and the memories of that period instantly come flooding back. Thoughts of secondary school are quite mixed, with just as many negative ones as positive. But my p

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Our columnist remembers the joys of learning to drive and how she fell in love with Minis and VW Beetles!

I adjusted my red spotty headband. Was it too young for me? Or did it suggest I was ‘young at heart’? My confidence was feeling bruised after what my son Dylan had said… ‘You know you’re too old to be