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I’m swimming in the beautiful Bay of Stivari on the Greek isle of Andros. My companion, Kalliopi, has just climbed out of the water onto...

Among my vivid memories of schooldays are some cutting comments from my teachers. They seemed harsh at the time. Reflecting on them now...

At the end of his article on the French presidential election in the last issue David Lee quoted the well-known opening couplet of a poem...

My all-girls’ Edinburgh school in the Sixties was strung skew-whiff across three once-grand terraced houses, with their assorted staircases

A most joyous pastime at School in the 1960s was acting out the mannerisms of our extraordinarily quirky teachers for schoolmates to...