02-01-2017, 06:59 AM
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Re: How Far Did You Walk To School As A Child?
Originally Posted by Puddle Duck
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I walked to school as an infant. Quite a long way and home for lunch and back again. So, 4 times a day kept mum slim. We didn't even find it hard, but it must have been a good 20 mins walk.Rain, wind, hail or shine. In the snow with wellie boots and two pairs of socks. Our little toes still ached with the cold. Ouch ! I can feel it now, poor little mites we were.
I had horrendous childblains on both my toes and fingers.
Seemed to spend hours at freezing bus stops too.
I wonder if today's children would know what a chilblain is thank goodness.
I often think if this is why I have spent so much of my life in tropical countries .
02-01-2017, 09:00 AM
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Re: How Far Did You Walk To School As A Child?
We lived in a farm cottage 2 miles from the primary school via country lanes, no pavements. It was also 2 miles from the nearest bus stop and a further half mile off the bus the other end to the secondary school. We were fit in those days. During my fourth and fifth years I had to attend evening classes three nights a week for my exam courses. That meant I walked10 miles on each of those 3 days. Used to get through a pair of shoes every two or three weeks.
02-01-2017, 09:25 AM
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Re: How Far Did You Walk To School As A Child?
Originally Posted by Artangel
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I was thinking about how most children are ferried everywhere by their parents these days.Yet in my day we had to walk miles in snow and rain to school and back. My primary school was about a mile away but my senior school was just under three miles away. Although, l usually got the bus to that school, l did sometimes walk it.
So l ask, did you have to walk a long way to school when you were younger? Or did you get the bus or a lift from your parents?
My children had to walk themselves to school too, from about the same age, even though it was about a mile and the roads much busier.
02-01-2017, 09:54 AM
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My primary school was just a few hundred yards from home and there was even a grocery shop, en route, where I could buy a chocolate biscuit for breaktime.My senior school was about 15 miles away, so I always traveled by bus, usually 2 buses, to there.
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