Last Tuesday

Today began as any other, toast on the range (cooker) a swift, but early, drive to morning prayer.

Then a frantic drive in an MG to Cardiff for an exam

While the others swanned off doing assemblies and church spotting, I had to exercise the grey matter

Although during the school visit, there was a game of whispers which turned cabbage into hebrew, if only I had been able to do that in the exam …

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