It's another week in what were told was spring but it sure doesn't feel like it, it is April too so white rabbits have been about and another sort of rabbit will be making its appearence at the weekend armed with enjoyable gifts.
Sitting watching Call My Bluff the other day, one of Geoffrey Robinson's shows at the time, the other being that post tea and news Ask The Family, remembering panellists, a good few sadly are no longer with us, just locked in our memories as ever my mind was at one point in time while attempting the work out which explination of a word or phrase was True and what was Bluff.
I was just thinking what the answers might be if the word was "Adult Schoolboy"?
Peter Pan?
I could imagine a scene rather like this.
A collection of boys, allowed up by Matron or your house master to watch a late show in the era of rigid bed times enforced without fail watching the show as we did back then - grown ups thought shows like that were good for our brains - thinking "just what is "Adult Schoolboy?"
Thye'd never seen anything that met that description, perhaps they knew a kind older person who kept a similar sense of fun to them and, looking at each other said "Could we look like this when we've taken our O Levels and left school?"
I suspect for many of us possibly not - other things were on our horizons like A Levels, college or shockingly at sixteen, work that was worlds away from that life we knew and loved - and yet today many of us do loving being mentally and in terms our presentation being just that.
I knew for all of that I felt at that age of still being very much a junior and preferring to dress more that way the idea I might freely elect to dress like that would of seemed - strange.
Indeed this morning I saw a post of Mumsnet where one had started a topic even suggesting that actual boys wearing grey short trousers was "off" and "had the wrong impression" although many I hasten to add did spell out the advantages and that even some boys would sooner wear them by choice all day long.
Just where that might come from who knows?
Yes we sometimes read of the person who gets into serious trouble with the law while looking more like that but bigger proportions do wear very much adult male attire and get into the same.
For us it may be "a thing" but I don't feel that deters actual boys from wearing them any more than the interest in say replica football strips or vintage sports shorts adults have puts them off wearing sports wear, perhaps dreaming of being the next celebrated striker or going out as the club mascot.
Perhaps we just loved being that us back then and kept it that way as best we could?
