For her Gallery subject this week Tara has chosen another “mummy topic”: Back to School. So of course I’m struggling with it — well I would wouldn’t I, ‘cos despite my wrinklydom I’m not yet quite mummified; neither have I had a sex change, at least not when I last looked.

So about the best I can do by way of a contribution is this:

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I took this at London Zoo way back in June 2008 — blimey was it that long ago; it seems like last summer!

I’m not sure if these girls (and there was a whole gaggle of them) were part of a school trip or just locals who were able to take a short cut through the Zoo, but the former is more likely. Anyway despite the tiger masks these two were failing to blend in with the animals, and no doubt got carted off back to their penitentiary.

Just look at the ladders in those stockings/tights though! Surely only a schoolgirl would be seen dead in those!