Wellies in school

[SEWelly]

Yeap I used to wear Wellies to school if it was snowy - just seemed the most sensible thing to do in those conditions.

In Junior School our form went on a trip to a nature reserve which basically ended up with all of us getting muddy from head to toe - even now I can remember that day so vividly!!

[SEWelly]

Yeap I used to wear Wellies to school if it was snowy - just seemed the most sensible thing to do in those conditions.

In Junior School our form went on a trip to a nature reserve which basically ended up with all of us getting muddy from head to toe - even now I can remember that day so vividly!!

Yes, the junior school trips! Whenever they involved wellies they were always good! We did a Year 6 Residential where we were welly booted and dirty for a good three days - my commitment was so that I got the award of Queen of Mud at the end!

So that was where the Queen of Mud comes from! I went on a residential in Year 5 which was pretty muddy but I missed out the following year when it was a quagmire, the pictures from that walk made me so jealous!! I kept asking people who went what it was like to try and imagine how good it would have been!!

[SEWelly]

Yes, the junior school trips! Whenever they involved wellies they were always good! We did a Year 6 Residential where we were welly booted and dirty for a good three days - my commitment was so that I got the award of Queen of Mud at the end!

So that was where the Queen of Mud comes from! I went on a residential in Year 5 which was pretty muddy but I missed out the following year when it was a quagmire, the pictures from that walk made me so jealous!! I kept asking people who went what it was like to try and imagine how good it would have been!!

Haha, you say that as if I wasn't a mud and wellies princess beforehand! God, that sounds amazing, can you describe your mud from the residential? And do you remember what wellies you had on? I already had my first red Hunters then!

Ah I'm sure you've always been a mud princess!

I had my Green Dunlops on and whilst the mud wasn't that deep it was the kind of mud that got your boots (and the rest of you) completely covered! It also made lots of squelching sounds when you walked, and it was slightly downhill as well which made staying up right even more fun!! I do wish I had a pair of Hunters back then though...

[SEWelly]

Haha, you say that as if I wasn't a mud and wellies princess beforehand! God, that sounds amazing, can you describe your mud from the residential? And do you remember what wellies you had on? I already had my first red Hunters then!

Ah I'm sure you've always been a mud princess!

I had my Green Dunlops on and whilst the mud wasn't that deep it was the kind of mud that got your boots (and the rest of you) completely covered! It also made lots of squelching sounds when you walked, and it was slightly downhill as well which made staying up right even more fun!! I do wish I had a pair of Hunters back then though...

OMG, get me into that mud! Where in the country was it? Mine was the Isle of Wight and it was particularly splashy and deep, so I was jumping recklessly into it and getting covered. Definitely beat the boys for filth, it was all over my face and under my fingernails after!

A term or so earlier we had an African Day in school and some of the girls did a welly dance! Guess which otherwise two-left footed gal was at the front!

It was near Staplehurst in Kent, I should probably try and go back and find it again at some point as I did with the muddy spot I first went too - it was even better when I went back!! Nothing like jumping around and getting proper covered!

I can well imagine - I remember wearing Wellies in a school play too - that was one of the few parts I really enjoyed!!

[SEWelly]

Ooh, what sort of school play was this? Yeah, I was really going for it, splashing and squelching and going from pasty white girl to dark brown mud monster!! Sounds great, I'll research it and will have to go there myself! I'm such a big kid in a grown woman's body!

I think I was meant to be a rain deer so presumably it was a nativity play - all I can remember was that I got wear my wellies!! If you want to try somewhere else then you should head to Detling in Kent - that was one of my favorite mud spots in Kent and was the site of my original school muddy trip!!

[SEWelly]

Ooh, what sort of school play was this? Yeah, I was really going for it, splashing and squelching and going from pasty white girl to dark brown mud monster!! Sounds great, I'll research it and will have to go there myself! I'm such a big kid in a grown woman's body!

I think I was meant to be a rain deer so presumably it was a nativity play - all I can remember was that I got wear my wellies!! If you want to try somewhere else then you should head to Detling in Kent - that was one of my favorite mud spots in Kent and was the site of my original school muddy trip!!

Ooh, I shall have to do some research! What were you up to on that school trip? Kinda wanna go back to the Isle of Wight and find that mud spot and just jump and splash around until I'm covered from the top strand of my hair to the soles of my Hunters!

I think the trip was badged as a opportunity to discover nature but I'm kinda convinced it was a chance for us to play in the mud - not that many of us were complaining! I was so excited when I went back a few years later - the mud was even better than I remembered... So you should defo try and go back if you get the chance!

[SEWelly]

Ooh, I shall have to do some research! What were you up to on that school trip? Kinda wanna go back to the Isle of Wight and find that mud spot and just jump and splash around until I'm covered from the top strand of my hair to the soles of my Hunters!

I think the trip was badged as a opportunity to discover nature but I'm kinda convinced it was a chance for us to play in the mud - not that many of us were complaining! I was so excited when I went back a few years later - the mud was even better than I remembered... So you should defo try and go back if you get the chance!

Hahaha! I bet nobody complained about getting to wallow in glorious mud! I would be acting like a real pig, snorting and crawling and just rolling around until me and my wellies were slathered, laughing, shouting and singing! Yeah, I'd bet the mud would be even better returning! When I was 6 I went on holiday to Norfolk and there was some lovely tidal mud! I was in my element when I popped my boots on! It's like once I put them on there's a magic to it that makes me ten times more cheeky and mischievous!

No I think we all had a great time except one or two of the girls who wanted to keep their boots clean, which they failed to do in spectacular style!! When I went back I explored everywhere again and it all felt even slippier than first time around - and I had even more fun!!

[SEWelly]

Hahaha! I bet nobody complained about getting to wallow in glorious mud! I would be acting like a real pig, snorting and crawling and just rolling around until me and my wellies were slathered, laughing, shouting and singing! Yeah, I'd bet the mud would be even better returning! When I was 6 I went on holiday to Norfolk and there was some lovely tidal mud! I was in my element when I popped my boots on! It's like once I put them on there's a magic to it that makes me ten times more cheeky and mischievous!

No I think we all had a great time except one or two of the girls who wanted to keep their boots clean, which they failed to do in spectacular style!! When I went back I explored everywhere again and it all felt even slippier than first time around - and I had even more fun!!

Haha, there were probably some prissy gals in my year. I was not one of them, in fact I was more naughty than all the boys combined! Teachers liked me but knew I was a handful and would just let me go wild if there was some mud around! If I were you in that position I would explore standing up once (trying to keep my balance) and then crawl around like a pig, snorting and getting my hands and face filthy!

Most of the girls in my class got stuck in tbh, at that age they were similar to us boys in some ways!! Yeah crawling would defo give proper coverage - also one part was downhill so mud sliding would have been great fun!!

[Peterkinann]

I wished I had a pair of wellies when I was at school a lot of the kids in primary would only wear them in snow or very heavy rain but in secondary school a lot of the girls would wear them as everyday shoes or boots