…Another Carry On this evening, this time called Up The Jungle.
That’s the sixth I’ve seen since they started showing them on Tuesdays on
29 December 1987.
It was poor.
I miscalculated what I spent for lunch at school and ended up going over my £1.
I had to owe the dinner ladies FOUR PENCE.
They wrote it in their special book…
My mum and dad gave me one pound each day to spend on food at school. Usually this was more than enough, but today masticating got in the way of mathematics.
A pound usually bought me a proper hot meal, plus something by way of pudding – a cake or a mousse-based dessert. I never bought a drink: why bother, when water stood in jugs on the canteen tables and was therefore free of charge?
I couldn’t keep the change from my pound. I had to return it to my parents later in the day.
I fretted considerably about being in debt to the dinner ladies. Even thought it was only four pence, I got nervous about owing money.
Another life lesson learned, then.
Twenty-five years ago today 
Our school tuck shop once raised the price of pop from 10p to 12p overnight, with no advance warning whatsoever. I was too nervous to tell the Big Kids in charge I only had the exact money so had to pretend I was just browsing.