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Aug 07 2025 - Yearbooks

Prompt: Yearbook Themes. What was your Yearbook Theme in high school?

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I didn't have a yearbook. They weren't/aren't a thing in the UK, at least when I was in school, which was many, many, many, way too many moons ago. We didn't have proms either... unless you are talking about brass instruments in a park somewhere... Though I think they are a thing now - an end of year party.

My school had an end of year "Summer Ball"... for school leavers and college (16yr plus), where we got dressed up in formal wear and sat down for a three-course dinner, before dancing. It was semi-posh. A vague attempt to be posh. I got very drunk (don't give a 16-year-old access to wine).

Instead of yearbook, we all chose to graffiti our school shirts on the last day of school, by writing messages all over them: Goodbyes... Signatures... Weird little doodles... I have no idea why, because I can guarantee that no one kept them. Of all the random things I have kept over the year "for the memories", my school blouse was NOT one of them. I actually think my mother threw mine straight in the wash on a boil/whiting setting. Thanks for destroying the memories mum!!

To be honest I wasn't even aware that yearbooks had themes. Though the amount I DO know about the US school system and traditions can be written on a back of a postage stamp in size 60 font.

I have often wondered what I'd have written under my embarrassing photo... or what my "mostly to" would have been.