Regularly the words would rip through my small body like a knife: "Daydreaming again, Anne Johnstone!
Regularly the words would rip through my small body like a knife: \"Daydreaming again, Anne Johnstone!
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Anne Johnstone
Sit up and pay attention!" It was the shrill voice of my primary school tormentor, Mrs Ashton. Looking back across half a century, I think I spent most of my first decade with my head stuck in the clouds. It felt like a sensible place to be for a shy, bespectacled, buck-teethed dyslexic with skinny plaits but to my tyrannical teacher this silent soliloquising was merely confirmation of inherent laziness.
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There's still hope for the daydream believer
Regularly the words would rip through my small body like a knife: "Daydreaming again, Anne Johnstone!
Sit up and pay attention!" It was the shrill voice of my primary school tormentor, Mrs Ashton. Looking back across half a century, I think I spent most of my first decade with my head stuck in the clouds. It felt like a sensible place to be for a shy, bespectacled, buck-teethed dyslexic with skinny plaits but to my tyrannical teacher this silent soliloquising was merely confirmation of inherent laziness.
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