From the confessional.

Your items on the school rules brought it all back to me. I must have written them out between 40 and 50 times. Only four of these were as a punishment - the rest were due to copies being quite saleable, particularly where the punishment had been given by a prefect who would be unfamiliar with the handwriting of the individual concerned. It was just one of the little scams prevailing during the mid 50's, along with sale of free bus tickets and card fixing (removal of entries using ink eradicator followed by re-sizing of the deleted area to restore the card surface - for a small fee of course). Happy days - small wonder we have the Enrons and Worldcoms. One of Seaborne's rants at assembly often comes to mind at times like this -"If there's one thing worse than a lout it's an intelligent, educated lout". I suppose the same goes for criminals. Happily my own little foray into dubious dealings did not result in a life of crime as I ended up in the rather the more mundane field of metallurgy.

Regards

Terry Nicholls