Author Archives: Ian

A special education teacher

Posted on 13th March 2023 by Ian

I applied today for a job at a school where it would be a dream to teach. To be applying for jobs at sixty-two years of age is a challenge. In my previous post, I was on a one year … Continue reading →

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Harvest past

Posted on 9th March 2023 by Ian

He is thirty-two years dead tomorrow. Many memories linger, a quiet man, a gentle man, a stoic, a grandfather loved by us all. A picture of him from 1975 captures a sense of him. Grandad stands on the left-hand side … Continue reading →

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Gym shoes

Posted on 6th March 2023 by Ian

The girl was wearing a pair of classic black and white basketball boots. The wearing of such incurred the displeasure of the deputy principal and she was required to phone home from the school office and ask that her mother … Continue reading →

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Shotgun security

Posted on 2nd March 2023 by Ian

A colleague has a Seventeenth Century flintlock musket standing in the corner of his classroom. In need of restoration, we have been trying to discover something of its history. It has more the appearance of a piece of art than … Continue reading →

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Langport Lollardy

Posted on 27th February 2023 by Ian

Reading of John Dyer, the rector of High Ham from 1459-1499 who was married with two sons and whose works were cited in support of Henry VIII’s break from Rome recalled that the area had been known for ‘Lollardy’ for … Continue reading →

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