I was never going to be a scientist – being naturally inclined towards the arts, languages, the humanities (History being my favorite) – and Mathematics gave me, and my various teachers throughout my school years, many headaches. At Tonbridge, as a result of our Common Entrance Exam that our school and others of its kind […]

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I ought to have gone through it all in five years but in actual fact I was there for six. Those who are well disposed towards me and are generous of spirit will allow me to slot myself in to this story without further remark…. Others might want to be more brutal. And why shouldn’t […]

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This happened during “The Coventry Visit” in our Lower VIth, November of 1988 I think.  We had been given an hour or so of free time and a group of us, wandering around the Brutalist pedestrian shopping precinct in the centre of town, rushed into a pub for a sneaky pint and to smoke lots […]

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