School trips, squashed sandwiches, and the day a clipboard walk turned into a pop lyric.
School trips were basically three things:
- 🚌 A coach journey that felt like the longest road trip of your life.
- 🥪 A squashed packed lunch (Fruit Winders fused into one giant sweet).
- 🛍️ A gift shop pencil you definitely didn’t need but HAD to buy.
But here’s the plot twist: one of my school trips was to Framlingham Castle. Yep — the actual castle on the hill that Ed Sheeran sang about years later. At the time it was just another day of clipboards, high-vis jackets, and teachers yelling, “Count to 30 before we leave the coach!”
Daisy: “Ed, hun, you should’ve written the real verse: ‘Drove to the castle, someone threw up their Capri-Sun, bought a novelty rubber…’ Instant number one.”
Looking back, it’s wild that what felt like an ordinary school trip ended up being pop culture history. Little-me was trudging the same walls that would become a chart-topping lyric. We were basically doing GCSE fieldwork on a future anthem.
If you ever sat on a coach with a packed lunch on your lap, en route to a castle, a zoo, or a Roman fort — congrats. You were living the soundtrack before the song even dropped.
✨ ADN — Actually Asten Nostalgia
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