A long long time ago in 1989 our school took sport extremely seriously. At least two hours a day was devoted to it four days a week and the whole of Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Rugby was the most important of course. The first rugby team were automatically anointed as college prefects because as anyoneContinue reading “Funny Old Game”
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God Bless The Child
A long long time ago in 1988 this country had a very different attitude to paedophilia. Michael Jackson took a 13 year old boy to the Grammys, Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter were fixing it for kids and inviting kids into their gang respectively, Rolf Harris sang about two little boys and my boarding schoolContinue reading “God Bless The Child”
Show Me Your War Face
A long long time since forever, boys at boarding school were given a taste of army life with a compulsory (natch) stretch in the Combined Cadet Force. Nothing embodies the batshit insanity of boarding school life so perfectly as this experience. Don’t get me wrong, the military is great for adults who choose to doContinue reading “Show Me Your War Face”
That’s My Bird
A long long time ago in 1990 the living quarters in boarding school often mirrored that in prison. Long corridors of thirty plus rooms/cells on each side where we slept, worked and housed the possessions we were permitted (and the ones we weren’t). Schools were divided into “houses” for the purposes of arranging sports teamsContinue reading “That’s My Bird”
Diaries of Boarding School 