{"id":25573,"date":"2025-03-27T19:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=25573"},"modified":"2025-03-27T19:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:29:59","slug":"raffia-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/raffia-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Raffia Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I managed to break my leg playing football<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And because of that I was condemned <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the Skool Raffia Class with all the girlie girls <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was soon joined by Stevie (crusty pants) Caldwell  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who had also broken his leg but in two places <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The art teacher Miss Dennis ran these lessons <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was one of natures nice teachers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who gave us free licence to do what we wanted <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The girls apart from Sandra made place mats and baskets <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas Stevie Sandra and I made garroting ropes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which we tested on the first year and their pet hamsters <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These were happy days and we did not miss our football at all <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In one week in March I wiped out three quarters of 1A\/2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And had the even great fortune to leave my raffia ropes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Near and on our brand new Eileen Drapes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which given the dampness of window <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caused the many colours to profusely run <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was sentenced to seven years on Devils Island <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it was all worth it as it still causes me to smile <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to break my leg playing football And because of that I was condemned To the Skool Raffia Class with all the girlie girls I was soon joined by Stevie (crusty pants) Caldwell Who had also broken his leg but in two places The art teacher Miss Dennis ran these lessons She was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25580,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions\/25580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}