On 12/08/2015 08:56, Roger Munford wrote:
>
> I am afraid that you are getting on but I stand wholeheartedly with
> you having had the same sort of experience which I think was very
> valuable.
> However it is his own money and I am trying to help him spend it wisely.
Yep, I misunderstood. I rather read it as "has asked for".
He's asked for advice. That's highly sensible.
On 12/08/2015 08:55, Alan Pope wrote:
> "Hoop & stick" was a lot less expensive hobby back then, right?
>
:-) My "hoop and stick" days were rather earlier, when I was in lower
single digits. At 16, I was trying to save for a motorcycle to make the
journey to and from work and college easier. Almost 200 miles a week
was quite a lot of cycling or hitch-hiking.
Actually, I never had the stick, just the hoop. But that was the 1950s
and 'hula', not Victorian England. :-)
I'm one of those allegedly lucky, privileged "baby boomers" with our
"free university education" .. except around 90% of us didn't get a
university education.
G.
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