strange really -if we'd done that, they would have beat the living shit out of us.

I remember the Cuban missile crisis. i was convinced we were all going to die that afternoon, incinerated. i said to my mum and dad, let's all stay home and be together when we die.

my parents though said - it won't happen they'll work something out - and sure enough they did.

years later i heard a few kids had gone down to the copper kettle milk bar. to die there amongst the milk shakes and kit kats. the headmistress of the girls school came down to the copper kettle and took her girls away from all that temptation.