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My Most Unforgettable Teacher: Willie Traill and the Attic
My all-girls’ Edinburgh school in the Sixties was strung skew-whiff across three once-grand terraced houses, with their assorted staircases
Tina Moskal
8 min read
The Delights and Decline of the OTT Teacher
A most joyous pastime at School in the 1960s was acting out the mannerisms of our extraordinarily quirky teachers for schoolmates to...
Tina Moskal
7 min read
Life Lesson: Do it now; it’s later than you think
everal articles ago, in The Perfect Pitch, I wrote that “Less is more” was my second favourite aphorism. A few readers have asked me...
Richard Pooley
5 min read
A lesson for life – Thank you, Dr P.
By Vincent Guy Photo by Roger Mayne I can’t say I learned a lot at Oxford University, but I did get a lesson for life from Dr Zbigniew...
Vincent Guy
2 min read
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