[westendlass]

There were a few bad apples among the teachers that were definitely in the wrong career. I can remember asking one female teacher a question (and I wasn't being cheeky) and got such a smack across the face that my glasses flew off and landed on the floor! I was supposed to wear them all the time and was a bit self conscious about them anyway but after that I refused to wear them point blank. I must have been no more than eight years old. The old bag emigrated to Australia a couple of years later and I prayed she'd get bitten on the backside with one of the poisonous spiders I'd read about!