Summer Term 1975

21/4: Back to school
22/4: First day at school of my last term. Have moved down one place in form. Have game of cricket. Go wicket keeper.
23/4: Move the sweet cupboard from the sweet cupboard to the second-hand room. Get no sweets. Have cricket. Feeling really bad.
24/4: One of the best days this term. Do clay pigeon shooting. Get 4 out of 10, best ever. Read in chapel. Have general knowledge quiz.
25/4: Have Latin prep and double science in evening. Go out and catch things in pods. Wicket keeper in cricket.
26/4: Do not get sweets, as was promised. Mr Broadbent goes up to London. Get letter from Jersey.
27/4: Hot weather. Have to read in chapel. Have a boring half holiday. Get bloody cross with Wainwright.

28/4: Have been back a week already.Play cards with Sawyer. Have great fun in dorm playing stupid games.
29/4: Very overcast and dull day. Time is going very well. Get 6 runs in cricket.
30/4: Have my music lesson - do very well. Rains a bit, but pretty good, hot weather otherwise. PM Have great half hole.
1/5: In shotgun shooting I got 3 out of 10 clays. No extras. E P was maths. 2nd Thursday.
2/5: It was discovered that someone had drawn a disgusting picture in the East Corridor. No-one owns up.
3/5: The whole school was kept in because of this drawing. We had to read in our formrooms. get to sleep quite early.
4/4: We were let off our punishments as all the day boys were away. Had good fun in the morning. Read at King's Somborne church.

5/4: Another boring week starts. Play cricket. Tomorrow mr ffaulkes goes.
6/4: Versailles boys go, lucky swine. Been back two weeks.
7/4: It seems that the 3rd May case has been closed. We were allowed sweets and half-holiday.
8/4: Do clay pigeon shooting. get 3 out of 10. Same as last week. Average this term: 1 in 3.
9/4: Do double biology. Bore. rains. No games. But go for a boring walk.
10/4: Go out. First exeat.
11/4: Only 8 people left. 10p sweets. Nicola and I have great fun with Tracy.

12/4: Second to last monday before Scholarship. Have 2 maths, 2 french, 2 germans.
13/4: No maths. Windy day. Have cricket for match tomorrow.
14/4: Match away versus Cathedral. Draw. I took the first wicket of the match at slip.
15/4: Shotgun shooting. Do better. get 4 out of 10. Not long until scholarship.
16/4: Dad's birthday. Dad got a calculator. Very windy day. Not very nice weather, a bit of rain.
17/4: It rained hard all day. The home match was cancelled. Not long until scholarship. Do not get letter.
18/4: Summer seems to have arrived. Beautiful day. Some people swim but I did not.

19/4: Beautiful day. First official swim. Played bad game of cricket. Go slip. Last Monday before scholarship.
20/4: Last tuesday before scholarship. Do two E.P.s. Play cricket. Swim. very cold indeed, and it hurt your legs.
21/4: Go to dentist with Dad in half-hol. EGB was not here so I did sweets. Buy Shooting magazine. Swim.
22/4: Shotgun shooting. Get 7 out of 10 (6+1). Not long until scholarship.
23/4: Two E.P.s - last ones before scholarship. Trial for 1st XI match.
24/4: Three days to go. Have great half hole. Match draw. Take first catch.
25/4: Last day. Have 8p sweets. Go with Jeff and Nicola.

26/4 - 1/6: Scholarship at Bradfield.

2/6: Get my results. I did not get anything. Everyone was very sympathetic. First day back for a week.
3/6: No maths. CE trials. Just over one week till half term. Go into sick bay (fake). Get grades: two ABs.
4/6: 1st XI versus Pilgrims. Dad comes and brings camera and tape 'Fog on the Tyne'.
5/6: The Referendum. So far it looks like 'yes'. Get the school record in shooting. 13 (12 + 1) ex 10.
6/6: Sixth Form go to see Corealanus at bradfield. See Douglas. Have great fun in coach.
7/6:
8/6: Have two swims but not one in the morning.

9/6: Only a week until half term. Not enjoying it here any more.
10/6: Best day for lessons again. A week's time and half term will have come and gone.
11/6: Match versus Chafyn Grove. Draw. Mum comes. Get two runs.
12/6 - 16/6 Half term

16/6: Back to school
17/7: No maths. Have a cricket practice for away match. Find I have left swimming trunks at home.
18/6: Phone up Dad to tell him about swimming trunks. Away match at Twyford. Get five runs. Match drawn.
19/6: Miss shooting because of choir pratice for Milton Abbey.
20/6: Go to Milton Abbey to song (RSCM). Mum comes in minibus. Sing on the way back.
21/6: Match v Stroud away. Get 5 runs, out lbw. They got 203, we got 37. get team swim.
22/6: Mr Woods takes 5 prefects + Taylor for a walk but also some juniors. Paddle in Test. Very hot. Peel for the first time ever.

23/6: EXAMS!!!! Doing St Edward's Scholarship with Taylor, Sawyer, Easton. Not too bad.
24/6: Miss music lesson because of exams. Have Latin. Not too bad. No results yet.
25/6: Last two exams. Have match against Farleigh House home. Out third ball. Mum does not come and it was a draw.
26/6: Have shooting. get 6+1 out of 10. Get large bruise on my shoulder. Swim.
27/6: Bruise goes nice and yellow. Swimming is cold. Only two more Fridays.
28/6: Get blown up by Mr Broadbent.
29/6: Go out. Do a bit of shooting. Dad had to sit down because of his veins.

30/6: Boring day. One of the only days when we have seven lessons this week.
1/7: Upper Sixth to Southampton Art Gallery. Get lent money. But sweets. Mr Broadbent gets cross.
2/7: Get sweets and home U-11 match. Win. Mum does not come.
3/7: Miss shooting because of match v Marlborough. Lose. get 8 runs - highest score ever in match. Mum comes.
4/7: Music exams. Do not do too well. Have a half hol. Some boys go to opera. Swimming match. Shoot in evening. Get 1 ex 10. BAD.
5/7: Fathers match. Miss Latin anyway, but Wainwright and I miss 2nd-to-last lesson because of helping Dick. In shooting get 3 out of 10, Dad 1. Lose Fathers day match. out 3rd ball.
6/7: Last Exeat. Marsh Court is open to the public. Look at cars. About 600 people come.

7/7: Only 10 days to go. Wake up to horrible lessons. Have league practice. I have got a bad league.
8/7: Practice for tomorrow. Do English project. Only one more Tuesday. Not one of the best days.
9/7: Athletics match at Twyford. Win whole thing. M.C. wins: S100, S200, L-Jump, S and J hurdles, S relay (which had to be run twice). Mum comes. Have team sweets and swim after supper.
10/7: Wainwright goes to Wellington. Do shooting. Get 6 ex 12. Dick shows us round his house as it was last shoot. Have a lecture by an Old Boy on Marine Biology. Do '3 cheers'.
11/7: I don;t know if I will come to Old Boys' Day. Leagues.
12/7: Last Saturday. Have a talk with Welbroke-Smith
13/7: Rain. Last sweets. Trunks out. Half hole. Feeling happy.

14/7: We are doing pretty well in Leagues.
15/7: Last normal day. Pack. It looks like we will win Leagues.
16/7: Come 2nd in Leagues. Have no sweets. Rounders match and barbeque.
17/7: Break up. Glad to be rid of people and Marsh Court.