This day next month the date will be 2/2/22. I remember the day it was 12/3/45 would you believe! I was attending a Prep School in Yorkshire at the time, run very much like Wackford Squeers’ Dotheboys Hall – canings were administered by the Headmaster in a ritual held in the Gym every Monday morning after prayers, the miscreants having to bend over the vaulting horse.
I remember staring for a full minute at the wicker waste-paper basket in the class room where the teacher had just informed us of this unique fact, and thinking that will help me recall this day for the rest of my life. Funny old world, isn’t it.
I remember staring for a full minute at the wicker waste-paper basket in the class room where the teacher had just informed us of this unique fact, and thinking that will help me recall this day for the rest of my life. Funny old world, isn’t it.