Martin King, author of Jack Hunter: Secret of the King, is writing 100 guest posts about childhood, for 100 blogs, all in the month of August!  So, without further ado, I give you Martin King:

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Cookery lessons. I used to love them at high school. Being taught how to cook make meringue or cook duchess potatoes was brilliant. Not that I have ever cooked a single one ever since.

By the way, don’t be getting the impression I am a male chauvinist these days and don’t cook because I do. But my wife is so brilliant at it and loves cooking, why have cotton when you can have silk?

So back to cookery lessons. The only annoying thing about them is that all the drop-outs thought this would be an easy subject to take, so it often turned into a free for all without much work getting done.

And then they were the days you either forgot it was your cooking lesson and didn’t take anything at all, or told your mum that morning and to your utter amazement, she didn’t have half the ingredients in! Lol.

Well on one day when we did actually get something done, I made sausage rolls. I remember putting them in a square Tupperware box for safe keeping.                               

After running home, I felt really proud pulling that Tupperware box out of my rucksack. As everyone gathered around for my big moment, I opened the tub in horror.

I learnt a very valuable lesson that day, never run like an idiot when you are carrying fragile merchandise. I opened the tub to a hotchpotch of mess. Very flaky, flaky pastry with bits of anaemic looking meat scattered around the bottom of the tub like the aftermath of Custards last stand.

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