27-10-2022, 17:07
There already are a lot of pubs closing, Dancing; it`s a process that`s being going on for a few years now but it`s certainly going to accelerate if they start charging prices like that.
Yes, Dev, I do remember both Fez and Jock. I didn`t realise Fez was particularly unpopular; personally I never had any problems with him at all – with either of them, in fact. I remember Jock taking us for Geography for a couple of years, but I don`t remember Fez ever taking us for History. He did a few of my mates, though, and I don`t remember any of them having anything bad to say about him. Did he take Economics as well, or am I confusing him with Spike?
The last time I saw Fez was a few years after I left. Somebody – I don`t know who – organised a `scratch` OC`s team to play a cricket match with a village team down near Kidderminster and I was invited to play. That should tell you how `scratch` it was. Fez captained the team and I remember us all sitting around a table before the match with him organising fielding positions, opening bowlers, batting order and all that. I was gobsmacked, to put it mildly, when he asked me to go in at number 3; I`d expected to bat at 9 or 10. Not that I could bowl, of course, but I was a half-decent (alright, quarter-decent) wicket-keeper and I`d wondered if they had me down for that. However it turned out that one of our lads, whose name I should remember but can`t, had kept wicket for Derbyshire 2nd XI; so I wasn`t overly put out. I did okay, funnily enough. I made 23 and even at this distance in time I`m still happy to bore the whatsits off anybody at all with a detailed account of a glorious (my description and I`m sticking to it) cover-drive that I played in the process.
I left at the same time that Bill Glister retired so I think that was the first and only time I ever met Luigi; he umpired. Credit to him for that, but I can`t say he had Bill`s `presence`. Fez seemed a decent bloke, I thought.
It`s funny how we sometimes remember our teachers for the little human things they do as much as, if not more than, what they teach us. I was in 3REY when my grandfather, who I was very close to, died. I `ve always had fond memories of Bob Young for exactly the same reason.
Yes, Dev, I do remember both Fez and Jock. I didn`t realise Fez was particularly unpopular; personally I never had any problems with him at all – with either of them, in fact. I remember Jock taking us for Geography for a couple of years, but I don`t remember Fez ever taking us for History. He did a few of my mates, though, and I don`t remember any of them having anything bad to say about him. Did he take Economics as well, or am I confusing him with Spike?
The last time I saw Fez was a few years after I left. Somebody – I don`t know who – organised a `scratch` OC`s team to play a cricket match with a village team down near Kidderminster and I was invited to play. That should tell you how `scratch` it was. Fez captained the team and I remember us all sitting around a table before the match with him organising fielding positions, opening bowlers, batting order and all that. I was gobsmacked, to put it mildly, when he asked me to go in at number 3; I`d expected to bat at 9 or 10. Not that I could bowl, of course, but I was a half-decent (alright, quarter-decent) wicket-keeper and I`d wondered if they had me down for that. However it turned out that one of our lads, whose name I should remember but can`t, had kept wicket for Derbyshire 2nd XI; so I wasn`t overly put out. I did okay, funnily enough. I made 23 and even at this distance in time I`m still happy to bore the whatsits off anybody at all with a detailed account of a glorious (my description and I`m sticking to it) cover-drive that I played in the process.
I left at the same time that Bill Glister retired so I think that was the first and only time I ever met Luigi; he umpired. Credit to him for that, but I can`t say he had Bill`s `presence`. Fez seemed a decent bloke, I thought.
It`s funny how we sometimes remember our teachers for the little human things they do as much as, if not more than, what they teach us. I was in 3REY when my grandfather, who I was very close to, died. I `ve always had fond memories of Bob Young for exactly the same reason.