Your schooldays, I was once told, are the happiest days of your life. And for me they were. It was one big social; the 6th year common room, school play, a morning of motor maintenance on a Monday and taking a leading role in Oklahoma! Sadly, the academic bit did not play that well. Maths, Chemistry, and Physics “Highers” were all flunked. I did pass my ordinary grade mental Arithmetic, which is a bit of an oxymoron, as that year we were allowed to use a calculator.