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We had brand new books in our year...orange almost pamphlet affairs in a series. There was a lot about eating dormice...complete with the recipe. The new books were a treat because all the other books were 20+ years old, and since we put our names in the back, each issuing of books was accompanied by looking for mothers/aunts of current pupils. Our fifth form (O level) History teacher was new in the summer before I started the O level course and literally threw away all the books and bought new ones. I can still see the pictures of Belsen.

My first Latin lesson started with our teacher (58 at the time) writing Canis sur mensam est on the board, then climbing on a classic school desk, on all fours, and barking. Miss Butler-Wright was bloody amazing!! RIP

Given our relative ages, Noah, they may well have been the same books....I'd forgotten about the family, the dormice recipes were rather more interesting to me.