Back to school fear
Aug 30th, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal ColumnsThere can be no moment more melancholic than the last day of the summer holidays when you are twelve years old and must the next day begin a new year at a new secondary school. The sick feeling at the pit of the stomach recurs like those nightmares where one is sitting in an examination hall with a paper file with questions on subjects never studied. The prospect loomed like a dark cloud, overshadowing the whole summer.
Wandering the cemetery today, swapping memories with those whose names filled the dramatis…