I remember receiving a severe smacking on the bum from Mrs hunter (aka Barbara Cartland lookalike) when I (accidentally) knocked the top front teeth out of a boy in her class. I was 5 at the time and he and his mate were teasing me when I was playing “Queenie, Queenie who’s got the ball…” so I threw a stone at him to make him go away – bullseye! Then to go home and get the same again from my mum!! Fiona Mains Foodbank Primary School
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