just about the only prize i have ever won (apart from winning £10 on the lottery once), was with a victory at school, coming top in science - my reward was a book called 'teach yourself chemistry'.
i found it strangely annoying.
i've just found it again, tucked away on a big bookshelf.
and i'm getting annoyed all over again.
why couldn't they have given me a football, which would have been far more useful?

i don't want to go on about this, but i don't imagine the folk who win the nobel prize for literature are rewarded with 'teach yourself spelling'?

do you think world formula 1 champion lewis hamilton's bookshelf now proudly displays a copy of 'teach yourself driving'?

no.

they were just picking on me because i had long hair and glasses.

i think that school that has banned the word 'school' has got it just about right.