Unusual Beginnings

When I completed the application form for my current job a score and more years ago, information was required on education - 'List the names and addresses of all schools/colleges attended', it said.

I probably answered in the following fashion.

See attached appendix A

1. A nursery school somewhere in Devon, maybe near Newton Abbott or Salcombe.
2. Mum & Dad, whilst cruising through the French Canals on a 32' Colin Archer.
3. A Primary school in Valletta, Malta.
4. Mum & Dad, whilst cruising the Med
5. Mum & Dad, during our Atlantic crossing.
6. Westmoreland Montessori primary school in Grenada, BWI. (Left Island due to Uprising).
7. Rustington primary school, Sussex. (1 year). (Stayed with family friends).
8. Westmoreland primary school, in Grenada, BWI again.
9. The Calvert Correspondence course, (1st year of high school).
10. A secondary school in St. Lucia, BWI (1 year).
11. Mum & I learnt Spanish together. (1 year).
12. Evening classes studying 'o' levels in Grenada. BWI. (Not completed due to Revolution).
13. Camosun College, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada. (1 year book-keeping and typing).

Another little gem on the application form as far as I'm concerned was:

List all previous addresses.

See attached appendix B

...and it went something like this:

1. A caravan in a pigs field somewhere near Falmouth, Cornwall.
2. A former Police house in Totnes, Devon.
3. The Round House, near Newton Abbott.
4. S/Y Riduna III, at sea, English Channel.
5. " " " French Canals, France.
6. " " " Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Yugoslavia, (until deportation), Greece & Islands, Spain, TheBallearics, Gibralta, The Canary Islands, The Atlantic Ocean, The Cape Verde Islands, Barbados, Grenada.
7. S/Y Kim, Grenada, The Grenadines, St. Vincent, St, Lucia.
8. Whilst crewing on other yachts, Martinique, Dominica, Antigua,
9. Pompano Beach, Florida, (a house), USA, (With, what turned out to be , a dope smuggler. Didn't hang around long).
10. A Winnebago on Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada. (With my family).
11. A Dodge campervan touring British Colombia, Canada. (With a boyfriend).
12. An address in Streatham, London. (With Dad).

I wonder what the powers that be made of that?

I'm still there anyway.