David Murphy's Occasional Blog

Pinhead – that was the nickname of Richard Meredith, the Senior Master of the Middle School (later to be general secretary of the Society of Friends World Committee for Consultation). Children are cruel, aren’t they? Anyway, it was the end of first term for Class 8X, and Pinhead’s comments on my school report were

I’d never been to Oxford, but that personal deficiency has now been rectified. Last month’s visit to that esteemed university city was a true delight, especially as Marilyn and I could pedal around on bicycles borrowed from our daughter and son-in-law (though it did mean I had to rise early each morning to drive them [...]