Posted by Jock on March 18, 2006 at 22:02:21 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: AR had a word for this:Re: JMN - please read this posted by Crocker Hyland on March 18, 2006 at 19:57:46:
Dear Hyland,
Thank you for your note. In fact I'm glad you wrote to me because it jogged the old memory. You see I've been meaning to write to you. I've been looking for our original copy of "The Guide", by Saint Ian. I thought it would impress the parents if they saw it on my desk when they come to talk to me about what we have to offer little Johnny. It used to be in the Library next to Dick's Pocket book, but Matron says she can't find it anywhere. Be a good chap and check if any of your English students have 'borrowed it'. Now it seems that the Padre has shown you my note to him about the little contretemps between Nichols and yourself. You know, of course, that I can't take sides in a spat between members of the staff. I take the line that these things quickly blow over and life at St Tarboard's continues as before. But I must say that your current kafuffle has affected the boys which makes it Headmaster's business. Only yesterday, I caught Owdon senior laying into some small sprog and when I asked him why he was so upset he replied that the sprog deserved a thrashing because the sprog had told him that his Head of House couldn't speak English. I can only surmise that he must have picked up a careless remark made by yourself. I don't need to tell you that St Tarboard's is a very broad church and if Nichols wants to build a boat in his office then that's to be preferred to his plan to build a cyclotron in the old swimming pool. You will remember that we had to close the swimming pool because some namby pamby parents objected our school tradittion of nude bathing. I must warn you that Nicholls is pretty upset with you. Only the other day I overheard him on the phone asking the MOD whether they could supply the CCF with depleted uranium bullets and how far they would penetrate a Purbeck stone wall.
Headmaster
PS. If you have anything on your mind at the moment then ask Matron for an appointment to see me and we can talk things over, over a glass of port.