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For the benefit of new arrivals, and to fill the gap till we’re ready to begin here, I will borrow something that will tell you who I am and what you can expect at this address.

As has been stated elsewhere

~ I rather fancy myself as an unkempt academic who observes life rather than living it and also doesn’t know danger when he’s in it.

~ I feel comfortable saying “he”.

~ I would rather be swallowed by a python than make an entrance as Shirley Bassey.

No 3 of the above will mean nothing to you unless you are familiar with this little clique, of course, but to put it in a nutshell, which is the natural habitat of a nut, it has been made known that I cheated death during the holiday I took between shutting up shop at Stumbleupon and moving in here.

A story alluded to by born-again Tumblr “Cloggo” has described how my quick-thinking “internet wife” Mrs HC claimed me back from a snake which swallowed me in one piece.

I have utterly no recall of this incident but may still be traumatised and don’t doubt it happened.

I do have a propensity, you see, for stumbling upon and into stupid situations, and as I freely confessed at the old school, have fallen out with some headmistresses in the past and had to be extricated from the claws of others, not to mention the jaws of “Nana” Tourettes.

(Incidentally, has she died? I haven’t heard a sound out of her for months, and wondered what was missing)

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Anyway … Having refused to work under SU’s preposterous new limitations and dunderheaded remodelling, I took my leave a couple of months ago and told them not to expect me back.

Since then, it has been a delight to find Tumblr an agreeable and highly adaptable model and I have never been more enthusiastic about teaching and nurturing keen young minds.

I can’t wait to see what you, my “followers”, can come up with given the freedom to let go, and to use the multimedia resources available from Tumblr.

And I would just like to welcome you personally, dear reader, whoever you are, since finding me at this early stage suggests you’re either very curious, already “in the know” or just fated to be here.

Welcome aboard.

Welcome indeed.

There will be more on this page soon but for now I will just show you a couple of holiday snaps printed and presented to me by the newly energised “Cloggo”, who some of you may have known as Clogiron at our old stamping grounds.

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Yes, that’s yours truly pithed at a garden party with his trophy wife and life-saver, who shall remain nameless.

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