On 12/08/2015 08:56, Roger Munford wrote:

I am afraid that you are getting on but I stand wholeheartedly with you having had the same sort of experience which I think was very valuable.
However it is his own money and I am trying to help him spend it wisely.

Yep, I misunderstood. I rather read it as "has asked for".
He's asked for advice.  That's highly sensible.

On 12/08/2015 08:55, Alan Pope wrote:
"Hoop & stick" was a lot less expensive hobby back then, right?


:-) My "hoop and stick" days were rather earlier, when I was in lower single digits. At 16, I was trying to save for a motorcycle to make the journey to and from work and college easier. Almost 200 miles a week was quite a lot of cycling or hitch-hiking.

Actually, I never had the stick, just the hoop. But that was the 1950s and 'hula', not Victorian England. :-)

I'm one of those allegedly lucky, privileged "baby boomers" with our "free university education" .. except around 90% of us didn't get a university education.

G.

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