Tuesday 8 January 2013

Christopher Digby-Bell ('58/'62) writes...

Some great memories:
  • Measles outbreak and playing battleships on Maths paper in bed.
  • Catching Mr G sneaking upstairs to Miss Lawson's room late one night - earned me a one-to-one  birds and bees talk.
  • Receiving a whole box of Smith's crisps. having complained that the little blue packet of salt was allegedly missing.
  • Scoring 100 in a cricket match - never done it since!
  • Who was Mugwub and why?! 
  • Watching The Rag Trade on Miss Thomas's TV. Also '77 Sunset Strip.
  • Publishing the first school magazine - can't remember what we called it. 
  • Getting a prize from an amused Mr Grey for making up my Latin numbers - started Uno, Duo, Tres, Quattro, Sink....
  • Great maths teacher - Colonel Withers. 
  • Getting caught by G on the last morning of term having a "midnight feast" at 6am in the New Wing - all because the next door dorm was making a noise.
  • Glucose tablets before matches. 
  • Setting off fireworks under the feet of parents watching the bonfire.
  • Growing radishes in my garden to supplement the terrible food. 
  • Being the comic turn in the school play, a Chinese woman with the line: "it's the most amiable coquetry ever known". Did it for the brilliant teas after each performance. 
  • Teasing Bev about Mr G being in love with her - whoops! Strangely happy days!



1 comment:

Edward H said...

Mugwub - Anthony Salt