Wednesday, First Lesson, Cookery

Wednesday’s are the best days ever (at school.  Saturdays are better, Sundays are better and any day that’s better than School Wednesdays are better).  All my favourite lessons are on a Wednesday apart from Drama, IT, Music and Revision Library.  

Revision library always gets out of hand

First lesson is Cookery.  I always manage to spill the ingredients of whatever we’re making all over my school bag.  Today we were making Watery-liquid-juice puree and chips.  I forgot my potatoes so I had to use wood chips.  

Watery-liquid-juice puree and chips (with less watery-liquid-juice and more fish and peas)

The cookery classroom is on the third floor of the craft block (above the metalwork classrooms) probably because cookers are easier to carry upstairs than lathes are.  Mrs Icedbun is four millimeters tall and can hardly reach the black board to write up the ingredients and recipe.  

Excerpt from Mrs Icedbun's wedding album

I like washing up. I forgot my ingredients one week and spent the entire lesson washing up. I stared out of the window and watched the lads play rugby on the field outside.  Best seat in the house.  They weren’t supposed to be playing rugby, they were supposed to be painting the new railings but things got a little out of hand.  The cookers are all very old-fashioned in the Cookery classroom; one of them still wears platform shoes.  At the end of the lesson we had to display our efforts on the middle table while the teacher sampled each one.  After she’d sampled the tables she sampled what we’d cooked.  She had to go to hospital. I quickly put my concoction in my locker and ran over to the PE block.

A peach who's just been told he's gone mouldy and will soon be put in the bin