A Holmesian Solstice

Week 4 of the Stuff I Love: Top Ten Edition promoted by dreamersdare   This week's theme is Relationships in our media, but as it doesn't particularly appeal, I've gone for general stuff I love, again in no particular order.

Baked last Saturday, this is the final 6 of 24 left a couple of days ago.  All gone now!

The baking process can be seen here: Melting Moments

Given that we've had only a couple of days when it hasn't rained at some point, my photos this month all include grey skies:

Continuing with the meme originally posted by used_songs [TS = The Son, TD = The Daughter, MH = MiniHobbit aka Granddaughter]

You typically attended school adequately clothed and fed.
Me: Yes Like many there were hand-knits and second hand items, but in those days it didn't stand out.
TS/TD: Yes. Again coats etc were sometimes second hand, especially school blazers since we couldn't afford new ones, but neither was bothered because they didn't stand out as 'new'
MH: Yes.

Adults responsible for your care were able to help you make decisions when it came time to pursue higher education.
Me: No. Neither of my parents had pursued higher education. My father left school at almost 14 in 1938, and my mother left school at 16 in 1946. They supported me in my wish to go to university, but where and to study what was left up to me.
TS/TD: Yes, although TS left school at 17 without staying on for his qualifications. We understood his reasons and supported his decision, simply saying he had to get a job if he left - which he did. We'd supported TD to take her 16-18 education at a college offering practical subjects, rather than staying on at school, and then we supported her when she chose nursing as a career and therefore had to obtain a degree. So we were able to help with decisions even if there was limited or no wish to pursue higher education.
MH: Will get support. Her mother has a degree - she's also a nurse, and TS will always support her in pursuing her goals.

If you were disabled and/or neurodivergent, you were classified by your school and received support through the education system.
Me: It wasn't considered when I was at school
TS/TD: Neither were, although TD may have neurodivergent traits.
MH: Isn't, but would receive support

You generally felt physically and emotionally safe at school.
Me: I assume so. I don't remember any major problems
TS/TD: TS was picked on when he started secondary school because at that time he was small. However, he also regularly rode a pony so he was both fit and strong, which he demonstrated and was then left alone. TD was bullied in her village primary school, so we ended up moving her to another school. She had few friends in secondary school but got on well with those she met at scouts.
MH: She does now. There was one occasion when she was bullied by a child in her class who had definite additional needs, but the school rapidly stepped in.

You were in relatively good physical and mental health.
Me: Yes
TS/TD: TS was although went through typical teenage boy angst, so producing melancholy music through the kitchen ceiling, but all part of growing up and nothing serious. TD broke her arm age 8, spent 3.5 weeks in hospital on traction and then took a while to regain her fitness. She's very much her own person, so doesn't necessarily fit in, which did cause problems, but she was find outside the basic academic setting.

used_songs posted this meme, and I thought it would be interesting to have a go.  Because I've decided to answer for myself (Me), our two adult kids (TS/TD) and my granddaughter, aka Mini Hobbit (MH), I'm splitting it into three parts over the next few days.

Adults responsible for your care actively helped facilitate your early learning. (Reading at bedtime, playing educational games, going to child-friendly museums...)
Me: Yes - I was read to, played card games etc, and was taken places although child-friendly hadn't really been invented then.  I do remember one gallery in the Science Museum in London with knobs to push and twist which was very exciting.
TS/TD: We always read to the kids, and they had educational games to play, which we played, and we went to various places, including seeing the mammoth in the National Museum Cardiff.
MH: Her parents have always read to her, played games and they go places like St Fagans National Museum of History

You had a library card.
Me: Yes.  My mother would take me to the library in the town and once they built a new branch literally down the road from us and I was a bit older I took myself.
TS/TD: Yes. We either visited the mobile library which came to the village or we drove up to the nearby branch.
MH: Yes.  TS takes her to their local library.

Adults in your life involved you in tasks that involved mathematical skills.
Me: No idea, but probably.  Both my parents were accounts clerks so were used to working with numbers.  I doubt they specifically considered that we did things involving mathematical skills, more that these things came naturally.
TS/TD: Again both husband and I worked with figures, so we tended to use them automatically rather than specifically.
MH: I don't know.  But she's doing fine with numbers at school so I presume she does.

If you started falling behind in school, you received help from a private tutor.
Me: I didn't, and if I had that wouldn't have been possible.
TS/TD: It turned out that both were better at practical skills than purely academic ones.  So we encouraged them in those areas.  Their basic skills were fine so we never felt the need to push, which since both were very determined, wouldn't have worked anyway.  When I saw a teacher to discuss TD's post-16 prospects he asked me what grades she needed to get for her GCSEs.  I told him and he said, 'and that's what she'll get'.
MH: As far as I'm aware she isn't.  The school have provided extra support for her handwriting.  (When TD had poor handwriting I resorted to bribery to get her to practise, which worked.)

You went to a well-funded school.
Me: I had standard state funded primary school, so have no idea.  I do remember they had a rebuilding project at my first infant school (in north London).  They knocked down one wall and we all had to stand on the other side of the playground - it was a while ago.  Secondary was well-funded.
TS/TD: Yes.  Their secondary school was well-funded and popular, which no doubt helped.
MH: Yes.  She's due to go to the same secondary school as TS.