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Category Archive for 'Illness'

Back to the story

Posted in Childhood, Illness on Jan 3rd, 2011

Windows 7 is go and I like it so let’s get back to the tale of woe that was my autumn of 1961. Well, I told the story of my little fight with pneumonia some time ago so I won’t go into those gory details again. Suffice it to say the bloody mindedness that came [...]

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Longest bus journey ever

Posted in Childhood, Illness on Nov 28th, 2010

Where were we? Oh, that’s right my wonderful best friend had just made it very clear to the Headmaster that he was quite capable of looking after one sick friend and getting him home safely. Mr Poole thought for a little bit and then decided that he could trust Rich to do the job. I’ve [...]

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A rather less good autumn

Posted in Childhood, Illness, School on Nov 19th, 2010

The new school year brought big changes. While it was great moving up to Top Class it was also scary because the Headmaster was now our teacher. Mr Poole was a nice man but he was the Headmaster and in the bottom drawer of his enormous desk lurked the dreaded slipper. While Mr Poole didn’t have a [...]

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Odd facts about Malcolm, numbers 20 & 21 – part 3…

Posted in Exams, Illness, School on Aug 2nd, 2010

The first setback came just before O Levels actually started. I didn’t get the scholarship not, they assured me, through any lack of ability, simply because those scholarships were very limited and heavily oversubscribed. I was reassured that if the grant was forthcoming then there was a place waiting for me at Dartington so I [...]

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