Term Ending/Birthday Spending/D-Day Landing

Thursday – School Term EndingIt’s a Gambles-Get-Together! We travelled down to Roger, Jane and Oliver’s on Thursday for lunch and then an overnight stay and then catching-up with Denis and Bev tomorrow. After a quick bite, we watched part of the 400th Anniversary celebration on DVD of Oliver’s school – Richard Hale – that took …
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End of Term – Oliver

We drove down to Roger, Jane and Oliver’s for Oliver’s end-of-term musical concert at his new school: Richard Hale. The past few days have been roasting – and today was no different with temperatures in the mid 30s. I feel like I’m getting old! ☹️ Oliver’s solo piece was entitled: ‘Nobody Knows’,  and he certainly …
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Big Nose!

After yesterday’s trip into London for possibly my final informal School event as Chairman, it was a quick turn-around, and then off to Stratford-upon-Avon and Second Thoughts’ 7.30pm production of Cyrano De Bergerac. Unusually, it played at The Bear Pit, rather than the Civic Hall – but that didn’t diminish the attendance, as it was …
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Smart Nephews

Clearly when they were giving out the brain cells, I opted for the express queue, labelled ‘five or less’. Luckily our nephews demonstrated sound judgment, by taking advantage of a BOGOF, and doubled theirs! Seriously though, what a bright generation they’re becoming. Alfie James Palmer. Currently at City University, but lucky enough to have secured …
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The School Re-opens

In my capacity as Chairman of the ex-pupils association, ‘The Old Croydonians’, I was invited with many others, to see the official re-opening of the school, now reborn as: The Crescent Primary School. It was a well supported event, with the pupils singing their school song and the head-teacher recounting how the school reinvented itself. …
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The Parcel Yard

I took the early train down to London this morning in preparation for the twice-yearly meeting I chair for The Old Croydonians’ Association. We found a really good venue – The Parcel Yard just off the concourse at the recently refurbished Kings Cross station. As the name suggests, it’s the old parcel yard that’s now …
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Lunch with Roger H

  I live such a exciting life, as I spend quite a few evenings impersonating taxi-drivers waiting outside Kettering Station. And now, life now has got much more interesting as I’ve started doing the same at PETERBOROUGH station. So, today, I could hardly contain myself when I drove to MARKET HARBOROIUGH Station!!! – is there …
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Me – as a piece of furniture!

As if writing the yearly school magazine and designing/maintaining the ex-pupil website wasn’t enough, the attendees at today’s AGM have voted me in as the new chairman of The Old Croydonians’ Association – ‘ The OCA’. So that’s THREE jobs now! On the plus-side, the role is a challenging and exciting one, and gives me …
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Out with the Chair…In with the Chair

I left frighteningly early this morning – 3.45am – to ensure a trouble-free journey to my old school. Luckily, it was one of the most trouble-free journey I’d ever had, resulting in me getting there at just after 6am! Time for a snooze in the car!!! The reason for the journey, was a full-committee meeting …
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More than a couple of mugs…

Karen popped round to talk-through the various Mug and other gift options for The Old Croydonians’ Association centenary event in 2011. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s!  My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with …
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TV: The Bill

Nice to see my old school on the TV tonight. It was used as an integral part of a complex storyline involving drug-smoking-and-dealing; an arsonist; two scrapping pupils, (one of whom stabbed ‘Smiffy’); and a far-too-liberal head of year – a lot different to my days there when the most serious offence was jumping the …
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OCA Committee Meeting

I travelled down to the BRIT School for an OCA committee meeting today. It’s over 100 miles, so I left early – really early (4.45am)in order to miss the traffic round the M25 and especially the south-side of the Dartford Bridge. The meeting was originally scheduled fro 13th February, but the snow and the general …
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