It's purely accidental that three of the pictures in this collection are of Maths masters! - and a little ironic, considering that it was far from being my best subject. I only had L.J.C. for one year: though a nice man (and perhaps a little too gentle for the rough-and-tumble of a school) he did have a tendency to go too fast for those of us who were a little mathematically challenged. F.J.D., a more stolid character, went at a speed I could understand. I'm afraid I infuriated him by insisting on writing in purple ink (fountain pens were de rigeur and ballpoints forbidden) - this was my big rebellion! He didn't like it, but it wasn't actually forbidden, so he was stuck with it.