Author Topic: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways  (Read 5531 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« on: 06 December, 2013, 09:08:27 am »
Walk, car, a hundred and one varieties of bike(s). But two new (to me at least) ones:

Take one of those shopping baskets on wheels with a long handle - the sort that used to be the preserve of grannies in the high street but now seems to be fashionable among every one (well, every woman at least) and not just shopping. Replace the bag with a sturdy yellow plastic basket. Put small child (about 6 or 7 at a guess) inside. Cover with coat. A cushion may be added for the child's comfort.

If you are a postman and you have somehow acquired ("I thought they didn't use these anymore?" "I don't think they know I've got it.") one of those Royal Mail bikes with a flat tray at the front for letters, balance child on tray, then make like a meerkat!

Any more?
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Kim

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #1 on: 06 December, 2013, 12:21:58 pm »
Legend has it that two kids from my primary school once got a lift to school in a milk float.  I think they were related to the local milkman or something.

clarion

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #2 on: 06 December, 2013, 12:29:48 pm »
One kid at our school turned up in a helicopter once.  It was not a regular option, and I can't recall how it came to pass.
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woollypigs

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #3 on: 06 December, 2013, 12:35:21 pm »
A school mates dad was a limo driver so he gave us a lift on our birthdays, with flags and the lot as he drove around picking us up en-route.
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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #4 on: 06 December, 2013, 12:56:40 pm »
^^^^

A family friend was butler / driver / housekeeper at a local large house. He did one time turn up in the limo to provide a lift to primary school. It took a while to explain that one to some classmates who suddenly thought us more wealthy than reality.  :D

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #5 on: 06 December, 2013, 01:05:55 pm »
When my dad worked for Reliance Mercury he was taking one of their products out for a test-drive once and took me to school in it. I was mortified.
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woollypigs

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #6 on: 06 December, 2013, 01:07:32 pm »
Mortified then, now: how cool is that :)
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #7 on: 06 December, 2013, 01:29:21 pm »
I had to google Reliance Mercury, but on seeing, I think I had one of their vehicles - in Matchbox form.  :D And - woolly is right!  :thumbsup:
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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #8 on: 06 December, 2013, 02:03:00 pm »
Mine have ridden (horses) to school before. They had stables at school.

JennyB

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #9 on: 06 December, 2013, 05:07:13 pm »
I first went to school in a grocer's van, sitting on a sack of pig meal.  :facepalm:
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #10 on: 06 December, 2013, 05:09:35 pm »
Mine have ridden (horses) to school before. They had stables at school.
That's good. I guess the school had a lovely rose garden?  :D In reception they're probably still small enough to ride on a St Bernard - that'd be something!
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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #11 on: 06 December, 2013, 08:52:28 pm »
A mayor of Southampton used to fill the mayoral car up with primary school children waiting at the bus stop on rainy days.
Not sure it would be approved of now.
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T42

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #12 on: 06 December, 2013, 09:43:08 pm »
For some of the kids around here something along the lines of a trebuchet would be appropriate.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #13 on: 06 December, 2013, 10:22:17 pm »
I had to google Reliance Mercury, but on seeing, I think I had one of their vehicles - in Matchbox form.  :D And - woolly is right!  :thumbsup:
I think it was one of these
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It was certainly that sort of size. How they got it from Gibbet Street in Halifax to George Street in Lindley, I will never know. I suspect there were a lot of pissed-off people stuck behind it on the Elland bypass.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #14 on: 06 December, 2013, 11:26:48 pm »
Cool as fuck! It's got a battering ram!
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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #15 on: 09 December, 2013, 12:11:38 pm »
My kids have been transported (part of the way) in the following:
Narrowboat
Dutch barge (motorised, not sailing)
Canoe
Bicycle trailer
Long-wheelbase landrover, complete with snow, mud and tree debris on landrover.
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hellymedic

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #16 on: 09 December, 2013, 10:32:01 pm »
I believe that my mother has taken my brother to school on a sledge.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #17 on: 09 December, 2013, 10:36:31 pm »
I've done that one! Several times - it was quite common at the school Little Cudzo attended at the time. Well, it was winter in a Polish village, so makes sense.
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hellymedic

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #18 on: 10 December, 2013, 12:44:14 am »
I've done that one! Several times - it was quite common at the school Little Cudzo attended at the time. Well, it was winter in a Polish village, so makes sense.

Indeed. I was a bit surprised to be the first to mention it.
Sufficient snow to permit sledging to school is unusual in London though.

Kim

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #19 on: 10 December, 2013, 12:59:58 am »
Ah yes.  I think we did that a couple of times back in the 80s, when they had proper snow.

Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #20 on: 10 December, 2013, 04:25:36 pm »
When I taught English in an Ikastola in Alsasua, near Vitoria, several kids used to come to school by donkey.

Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #21 on: 18 June, 2014, 10:12:16 pm »
In Ireland, I once saw a man bringng his little daughter home from school. She was sitting, clutching her lunchbox, in the front bucket of his JCB...
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #22 on: 19 June, 2014, 10:26:14 am »
The only other person I can imagine taking kids to school in a JCB would be - you! Perhaps a steam-powered JCB?
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #23 on: 19 June, 2014, 10:26:39 am »
When I taught English in an Ikastola in Alsasua, near Vitoria, several kids used to come to school by donkey.
What is an Ikastola?
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Jaded

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Re: Taking the kids to school; unusual ways
« Reply #24 on: 19 June, 2014, 11:12:57 am »
A small guinea pig powered scooter.
It is simpler than it looks.