Way, way back in the '50's, when I was in what was then called the Sixth, we acquired, unusually for a boys school, a female Biology teacher.As far as we were concerned, she taught A level Botany. Sh… (View Post)

Good morning all. Although the sky doesn't look as though it's going to be 'good' for much longer. Shame as it's the last day of the town's cricket season. However, 'twas ever thus! I have long thoug… (View Post)

Surely he'd have more conspicuous there without a rifle than with one! (View Post)

I suggested upthread, Mr G, that he lives a sheltered, perhaps unworldly, life. (View Post)

I don't want to sound unkind, but you do seem to live a sheltered life sometimes. Although, to be fair, as I said things have moved on somewhat over the past fifty or sixty years. (View Post)