Exam Results

‘Velvet Goldmine’ – David Bowie

Two-dimensional boxes full of faceless faces, drifting…

More part-Cocteau, part-Picasso faces, pouting from mullet-wearing heads, in pink and yellow…

Several baggy love-hearts, punctured by arrows and deflating…

A grimace…

 

A quiff with teeth…

A short hat balances on very tall wiggles of hair, with earrings and mullets reassuringly in attendance…

Alien faces with pug mouths and sharp ears, sharp brows…

 

Cocteau-like faces pouting and turning cubist, bending and warping, their noses turning biro blue…

Jippo!

Jyp

   Po

Bank Holiday boredom, and I’m still at my Granddad + Grandma Winterfood’s.  I didn’t do much, but I collected my rail ticket from Granddad Pritchard’s house and he mentioned that I’d done quite well in my exams…

This evening, Betty rang to see when I’m coming home.  I will return home on Wednesday.

My exam results?  Erm…

[CRAP!!! – Ritcherd, 1988]

I got GCE Grade C in History, English Lang, English Lit, Art + Design and Drama. 

I got CSE Grade 3 in Biology, Grade 1 in Drama and Grade 2 in R.E.

[Failed typing + Maths! – Ritcherd, 1988]

I’ve done ‘well’ and won a place at Tech.  I’m chuffed.  And surprised, really!

[i wouldn’t dare be RitcherD!!

– Berwin Groomstool, 1988]

WHAT RITCHERD IS UP TO IN 1985, 1984, 1983 & 1988?

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