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Wow, you must have been smitten with her Mike!!! That really is me you know!!! ;o)
Not so much smitten with her as by her! She had been in the school for a very long time (trained in the early 50s) whilst the Headmaster was a relatively young chap with whom I had a great relationship, which I think she slightly resented. However she wielded real power in the day-to-day running of the school inasmuch as she was responsible for drawing up the timetable and also cover for absent teachers. She used to take a perverse delight in mismatching talents. I remember one occasion when both the French teacher and the Cookery teacher were absent. Full of the milk of human kindness I actually volunteered to cover a French lesson (being one of the only two French speakers on the staff), only to be told that she had decided that the PE teacher (who could barely speak English, let alone French) would take 2A for French whilst I had to take 4C for cookery. It took all my masculine charms and about two years before I finally wormed my way into her affections.