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trevor travis
At the age of around 12. I couldn#t even do 800m without feeling ill. The 30-mile hop would have killed me.
Edited by trevor travis on 26-02-2026 20:06
Vote Og.
 
Cygnus Bazza
“Hopping up that hill…….with no problem………..”
 
Cygnus Bazza
“Hop…around…the rocks tonight…”
 
M1795537OCVirn

AnneArthur wrote:

M1795537OCVirn wrote:

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

I’ll bet M1’s school song was something in Latin about subduing smaller nations.


Sanctus clavis fores aperit, actually.


But which fores does the sanctus clavis open?



The holy ones of knowledge, supposedly.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
 
OneSparePart

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

By clashing with evening mass, Ian Ogilvy’s ‘The Return of the Saint’ was instrumental in my teenage quasi-excommunication from the Catholic Church, alongside a ruck with Father Alberic about transubstantiation and papal infallibility.

That explains everything. All the naughtiest kids in my senior school were catholic.
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
Cygnus Bazza

trevor travis wrote:

At the age of around 12. I couldn#t even do 800m without feeling ill. The 30-mile hop would have killed me.

Cross-country was a brilliant way of teaching teenagers how to cheat.
 
trevor travis
The school bully saves the day!
Vote Og.
 
Cygnus Bazza

OneSparePart wrote:

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

By clashing with evening mass, Ian Ogilvy’s ‘The Return of the Saint’ was instrumental in my teenage quasi-excommunication from the Catholic Church, alongside a ruck with Father Alberic about transubstantiation and papal infallibility.

That explains everything. All the naughtiest kids in my senior school were catholic.

Most things. Not everything.
 
AnneArthur

M1795537OCVirn wrote:

AnneArthur wrote:

M1795537OCVirn wrote:

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

I’ll bet M1’s school song was something in Latin about subduing smaller nations.


Sanctus clavis fores aperit, actually.


But which fores does the sanctus clavis open?



The holy ones of knowledge, supposedly.


Ah! That would make sense.
 
trevor travis

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

trevor travis wrote:

At the age of around 12. I couldn#t even do 800m without feeling ill. The 30-mile hop would have killed me.

Cross-country was a brilliant way of teaching teenagers how to cheat.


Cross-country = cross-route surely. It wasn't cheating. Just being creative!
Vote Og.
 
Cygnus Bazza
I reckon German teams used those smelling salts on Jeux Sans Frontieres. Explains their relentless mastery of the Fil Rouge.
 
Cygnus Bazza
“Hopping home for Christmas…”
 
OneSparePart

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

trevor travis wrote:

At the age of around 12. I couldn#t even do 800m without feeling ill. The 30-mile hop would have killed me.

Cross-country was a brilliant way of teaching teenagers how to cheat.

Yes. Hide in the bushes smoking until the school swot returned. Or run downhill to the shop for sweets etc.
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
Cygnus Bazza
Second service
 
Cygnus Bazza

OneSparePart wrote:

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

trevor travis wrote:

At the age of around 12. I couldn#t even do 800m without feeling ill. The 30-mile hop would have killed me.

Cross-country was a brilliant way of teaching teenagers how to cheat.

Yes. Hide in the bushes smoking until the school swot returned. Or run downhill to the shop for sweets etc.

Exactly.
 
Cygnus Bazza
School Bully almost certainly ended up in the Bullingdon Club, then the Foreign Office
 
trevor travis
Eton's school bully left to join the government! Grin Grin
Vote Og.
 
OneSparePart
The sound of every school orchestra
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
Cygnus Bazza

trevor travis wrote:

Eton's school bully left to join the government! Grin Grin

It's a key criterion for employment.
 
OneSparePart
B7 man again
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
Cygnus Bazza

Who are we looking at?
 
Cygnus Bazza

OneSparePart wrote:

The sound of every school orchestra

Thank God they don't have timpani
 
Cygnus Bazza
All part of life’s jolly old Jigsaw.
 
OneSparePart

Cygnus Bazza wrote:


Who are we looking at?

The teacher next to palin but not Jones
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
trevor travis
Tomkinson becomes the bullly!
Vote Og.
 
Cygnus Bazza

OneSparePart wrote:

Cygnus Bazza wrote:


Who are we looking at?

The teacher next to palin but not Jones

Will have a shufty later - which B7 ep??
 
trevor travis
Nex episode at 8.18pm!
Vote Og.
 
Cygnus Bazza
That was pretty good, I'd say! Still lots of Pythony stuff in there
 
M1795537OCVirn
Ha ha ha, I've just been looking up my old school's 'Archive' of Form photos - and there aren't any of my lot from the years I was there! Honest! (I must be in a couple of the whole school ones, but you'd need a magnifying glass to spot any individual).
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
 
Cygnus Bazza

M1795537OCVirn wrote:

Ha ha ha, I've just been looking up my old school's 'Archive' of Form photos - and there aren't any of my lot from the years I was there! Honest! (I must be in a couple of the whole school ones, but you'd need a magnifying glass to spot any individual).

You were probably suspended the day they were taken
 
trevor travis
STARTED!
Vote Og.
 
Cygnus Bazza
Have we started again?
 
OneSparePart

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

OneSparePart wrote:

Cygnus Bazza wrote:


Who are we looking at?

The teacher next to palin but not Jones

Will have a shufty later - which B7 ep??

Space Fall. He is one of the prisoners on the London.
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
Cygnus Bazza
All a bit Hovis
 
M1795537OCVirn

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

M1795537OCVirn wrote:

Ha ha ha, I've just been looking up my old school's 'Archive' of Form photos - and there aren't any of my lot from the years I was there! Honest! (I must be in a couple of the whole school ones, but you'd need a magnifying glass to spot any individual).

You were probably suspended the day they were taken


The whole form? Mind you, I wouldn't be surprised...
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
 
Cygnus Bazza
And here is the weather forecast for the 1930s…
 
M1795537OCVirn

Cygnus Bazza wrote:

Have we started again?


I have.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
 
Cygnus Bazza

I'll bet
 
trevor travis
It's grim up north!
Vote Og.
 
Cygnus Bazza
And we had nowt but bread and black pudding for tea!
M1: “You were LUCKY!!! We used to get up at four-thirty in morning to post new thread for Thursday rewatch and send CB email telling him off again…”
 
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