What were you really good at?

English and drama and have always been really good at spelling

Netball (I was taller than the others so could shoot - that stopped when they caught me up!) drama and reading aloud.

Oh yes I loved netball kitty and played well into my 30's, only stopped when I went back to work full time and couldn't get to the games and practice nights any longer.

No good at sport but I did fence (foil) for the county.
I was good at English.

Art, English, Singing. I was hopeless at most sports, but managed to get in the gym team because I was good at rope climbing and cartwheels!

With the benefit if hindsight English, writing (those compositions), RE, lived reading, good at some sports. I was a very anxious child though and at the time didn't believe I was good at anything.

Loved not lived

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I was quite good on the piano and also good at art at school ... no longer have the piano having given it to the daughter and only artistic outlet is card-making!

English and PE,football,played in the boys school team,no girls teams in those days .

Reading, spelling & writing. I think I took after my father who, if he saw any spelling mistakes in shop displays, would go in to tell the shopkeeper! I was so embarrassed! The best was a butcher selling "lion chops"

French, spelling and Music. I was rubbish at science, though in today's culture I now realise that was the teacher's fault.

Me too Ana and being good at English helped me all through my working life. I was always good at calming angry or distressed people because I was empathetic then and still am.

English, Latin, Music (especially piano) and was goal shooter for our county netball team. I was 5'11" at the age of eleven, so had a ridiculous advantage!

I like to think I was a good employee.... punctual, honest and hard working. At least, I think so!
But English was always my best subject at school and I've never lost my love of reading and writing. I was useless at everything else.

I was very sporty - Captain of the netball team, on the school tennis and rounders teams. In athletics I threw the discus and javelin, did long jump and ran hurdles. Out of school I played badminton in winter and tennis in summer with the Church groups. In the holidays it was tennis every day.

English was my favourite and best subject but I was also good at French, History and Geography. Hated physics though!

Reading and writing.

Interesting that so many of the commenters on this thread have said the same thing. I think that Gransnet is generally notable for its intelligent, articulate, literate commenters. The level of accuracy in spelling, punctuation, grammar and breadth of vocabulary is way above average.

Ice skating. I loved it so much. I would beg my parents for the 6 shillings it cost to get into the rink. I used to walk there and back because I didn't have the bus fare. (a couple of miles each way.) I would have loved to have had lessons but knew they were too expensive. I was also good at English, art, and PE.

Singing and languages for me. I didn't begin singing lessons until I left school, as there were no singing teachers in our area, and I think my parents would have thought it was a bit " show offy" to send me!

Who knows, I might have been famous!

Woodwork, metalwork, physics, technical drawing. I won the egg & spoon race at primary school, I was the only one who cold see that you don't hold the spoon with a rigid arm.

"Used to do extra rounds to pay for youth hostel weekends."

I didn't know there were any other hostellers on here, do you still use them?

Reading, writing and arithmetic. I don't know what happened to the latter as I only just scraped a GCE pass in maths. Poor teaching and boys I suspect..

At the moment I think I'm being very good at being a granny..

Oh, and a friend and I beat everyone hollow in the 3 legged race on Junior school sports day. We'd worked out that you had to synchronise legs!

Pretty much anything that wasn't maths or geography. I was really good at tying knots - at Brownies and Guides.

Talking about this with my cousin yesterday by coincidence. I found logarithms really easy and couldn't understand why others didn't, same with reported speech, found English and Maths so simple and logical that it was frustrating when others didn't. However, history was so boring and what was the point of geography, it was all so far away?

When I was younger I always thought of myself as mediocre at everything - neither outstanding nor dreadful (except at sport, which I couldn't play at all because of my severe asthma). One year I was top of the class in Latin and cookery, but I never repeated that 'success'!
However, I've come to terms with that now, and reckon I can count myself as being good at being steady and reliable, not such a bad thing.