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RIP Miss Riddiford..... BUT I have mostly bad memories of her, her sudden change of mood, cruel remarks when marking work and she was ONLY encouraging if you were doing well already, she had little patience otherwise. I could write a lot more but it would be disrespectful... Now Mr Watson, I would ...

That is sad. She was quite a character - always quick to sing "Gluckliche Geburtstag" (sp?) at the drop of a hat! And, oh...as Angela has already mentioned .... the purple-rinsed hair!! I liked Ms Riddiford - especially as she sang Happy Birthday to me every Friday for most of one term - t...

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NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:Dusted down ang polished for the occasion, it was the only vehicle used, in the Village, for such an event !

What's more, he directs hit movies such as Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as well as polishing funeral biers. A very talented man indeed.

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Mary; it is when you start to get much older that your contemporaries really start disappearing . Unfortunately I've been to too many funerals - a 29 year old died of cancer, my best man's funeral last Friday shortly after he had buried his wife and son 2 years apart - he was 6 months younger than ...

JR - I am shocked!! From some of your 'curmudgeonly' responses, I had believed you to be much older!! My husband was born in 1942 and he is VERY youthful in his outlook!!

I'm thinking maybe I'd ask to have The Smurf Song played at the crematorium when I die, just to see how far you can get away with taking the pi55. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4MHNkT7b1Y&NR=1 A few pole-dancers wouldn't go amiss either, though by 2040 such things will probably be seen as rat...

Thank you for the apology, Efsis. I believe that there was a significant abuse of power, however, regardless of the era! I don't believe he was sacked, Jo - it was suggested that he refrain from teaching at girls' schools. They did not award the Wandsey cup - or the woodwind prize that I would have ...

Angela - I was slim as a whip until about the age of 15. Masses of emotional turmoil at home and at school - and the white bread was a culprit in subsequent porkdom!! I read Susie Orbach's book when I was about 21 and it made a tremendous difference for me. Never went on a diet of any description af...

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I would have thought that at the age of seventeen you knew what you were doing ? No offense - but that is the rationale most abusers use. I may have been 17 - which is considerably wiser than, say, 14 - but - the fact remains, that I was a minor and this was a TEACHER, in a position of trust, and t...

If this was the case, I completely missed it! We were in a shared dormitory with 16 others for the first three years and in pairs in thinly-walled cubicles subsequently. There was little to no privacy anywhere and one's time was completely accounted for - I remember no free downtime. I honestly don'...

Spoonbill - I think you are a man after my own heart! You can place a boulder on me, if you want to mark the spot! There is a ranch here in the US (?Texas? I think) - where they take corpses and bury them in random places for forensic study. I have considered donating my body for that. My take is -...