RESEARCH

[michael scuffil]

We were not allowed out into Hertford alone until we reached the Upper VI,

Hertford was known to be particularly restrictive, but was not unique. My parents lived in Southwold, Suffolk, in the 1970s. Just outside is a school called St Felix. It was a girls' boarding school then, though maybe now it is mixed. I remember noticing that you only saw the girls from the school in town on Saturday afternoons, and never alone. (Possibly 6th formers were allowed un-uniformed, but then one wouldn't have noticed.)

[rockfreak]

Some bells are ringing. The post that talks about Drummond (Scott's assistant) having an affair with Nan. As I recall from my mercifully brief stays in the Sicker, Nan was one of the cleaners (described here as an orderly). I remember her as a rather nice, motherly woman who had a smile for every one of us boys - something that you tend to remember from your days in an English boarding school in the 1950s when love was one commodity that was definitely not in ready supply.
So this guy gets sacked for having an affair? And what of Nan? Does she get sacked too? For finding love in the arid, tight-assed, puritanical environs of the English boarding school? Who decided on the sacking?
It's times like this that I understand why I never wanted to revisit this puke-making, stifling, hypocritical place of education. Whatever I've learned of any worth has been learned since.

[Avon]

Some bells are ringing. The post that talks about Drummond (Scott's assistant) having an affair with Nan. As I recall from my mercifully brief stays in the Sicker, Nan was one of the cleaners (described here as an orderly). I remember her as a rather nice, motherly woman who had a smile for every one of us boys - something that you tend to remember from your days in an English boarding school in the 1950s when love was one commodity that was definitely not in ready supply.
So this guy gets sacked for having an affair? And what of Nan? Does she get sacked too? For finding love in the arid, tight-assed, puritanical environs of the English boarding school? Who decided on the sacking?
It's times like this that I understand why I never wanted to revisit this puke-making, stifling, hypocritical place of education. Whatever I've learned of any worth has been learned since.

Wibble.