jonthekeys

Hi folks It's me - the hated wackojacko ,,, I've just spent an interesting hour reading all the posts here. I'm sorry that I made life so unpleasant for many of you - I've mellowed a lot since you knew me (I think!), and I'm pretty ashamed of some of the things I got up to. But like all of you, I've found it fascinating to read about people whose names I remember so well - both staff and pupils. And it's good to read about your successes in your lives post-FPS. But don't believe everything you read! I never threw blackboard rubbers at pupils - mainly because I can't throw for toffee and it would have missed its mark and hit someone else! I was never any good at throwing, catching or hitting a ball. I remember a staff rounders match in which, somehow, I and John Sherwood ended up the only two left in to bat. I would miss the ball and run to first base. Then John hit a rounder and set off at speed; I had to run ahead of him all the way round. Then I missed the ball, ran to 1st base, he hit a rounder ... and so on. We won the match and it took the rest of the day for me to recover! And I never made anyone sing an octave - pure fiction! Speaking of fiction - dodger23, you write a very good story about 'Cabaret', but I never said any of the words you put in my mouth! However, I'm most interested in the response from dropout: I vaguely remember going to the (Firth Park) "Cabaret" performance at the SUDS one night, way back when....but I couldn't have remembered who was in it - or what the heck it was about. Anyhow, it turned out, 30 years or so later, I turned up a Vinyl LP copy of the Firth Park School, Cabaret performance - in my records collection. I managed to contact one of the names who was on the sleeve credits(It wasn't John Jackson,)...and asked how many LPs they had made...etc. I think he said either 500 or 1,000. Anyway, it turns out, or appears, that it is NOT yet a collector's item...and I still have the vinyl LP, rotting away somewhere.! I'd love to listen to that record, because we never made a recording of that production! If you really have a record, send me an mp3 of it ... All the best to all you folk who passed through the school while I was there. Like you, I have so many memories.