Hello from the West Country...

[Tarnegol]

Small world, my parents met at M.R.E. Porton Down! We must be very close in age, BWS?

[2010sunburst]

Yep, BWS from 72 until 79.  Born in 1960.  Also, my in laws met at MOD Porton down.  My Brother in law was head boy and captain of the BWS first fifteen….I think the Kinks wrote David Watts about him LOL.   I also worked at MRE, and after many name changes ended up retiring from Porton Biopharma Ltd. 

[Tarnegol]

Oh dear! You must have been the year below me, my real name is Geof Downton. Please don't tell me what they said about me back then, I'm certain it was (deservedly) horribly disparaging!

[2010sunburst]

Hi mate
Not a name I know sadly.  I’m Tim Marlow.  I knew Ron Griffiths for a number of years and I think he was in your year.   I also went to Junior School with John Hibberd, who was also in your year, but we lost contact after the school change.

[Tarnegol]

Nothing sad about having no memory of me, if you did it would have been, perhaps not bad, but certainly embarrassing! I remember a Griffiths, not sure that it's the same one. With 120 odd people in each year it's surprising that I remember any. I probably remember more teachers than pupils, but I think any reminiscence down that road is best avoided...

[2010sunburst]

That’ll be Polly and Titch then….both bloody psychos…..

[Tarnegol]

I would add an expletive or two...

[2010sunburst]

LOL….Titch once threw a board rubber at a kid in another class.  It glanced off him and went through a window…..it was our form’s classroom and we got put in detention for breaking the window!  Mind you, on another occasion one of my friends in the sixth form was sent to him to explain how he broke a glass table with a hammer.  He said “ I wondered what it would sound like”.  Titch burst out laughing and told him to get out before he stopped….Polly was just a mental case.  I think he was the teacher in “another brick in the wall”….

[Tarnegol]

I'd like to think he was like that due to years of dealing with people like me, but Titch taught my father 20 something years earlier and was already showing significant signs of sociopathy/Napoleon Syndrome. Perhaps he is the reason that both Dad and I ended up as mental health nurses...

[2010sunburst]

Possibly, but it was a worthwhile career choice all the same.  A French teacher with a Napoleon complex….whodathunkit. 
I spent thirty five odd years producing biologics for the treatment of leukaemia in children.  Started as a lowly technician and ended up as subject matter expert rolled out to answer awkward questions from the MHRA and FDA….