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Yes it was colder, & I got awful chilblains. I remember ice patterns on the inside of my bedroom window. The winter of 63 was particularly bad. Do you remember Mr Slack? I struggled with some spelling tests when I first went to St Nicolas, but he helped me tremendously with little tips on how...

I was at St Nicks too. I went there aged 8, when my parents split up. I went into a B stream but within one term moved up to the A stream. I don't remember doing lots of old exams except for the maths questions, which was a good way of practising decimals and fractions, in any case. The 11+...

I know Germany is more rentals than home ownership. It does seem to be a British thing, having to buy homes.

That was my point in my first paragraph. It always was. Houses down here were double the price in 1970.

It was always difficult to find a deposit although in the SE, it's almost impossible now. It's one of the reasons I went up north when I was first married as it was easier to buy houses up there. This will sound like a naive question, but why don't governments cap rents? It's greedy landlords...

I know of a case where the house was bought back in the 80s & recently sold, but the 'profit' is being used to pay £600 a week for a small room in a care home. If that money hadn't been made, the State would be paying that anyway.