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!
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