Why my old school ties no longer bind  What? A female
headmistress at my alma mater?     • The Observer,     • Jump to
comments ()  Last week, I received the following email from my
old school: "The governors of Abingdon School have today, 24
November 2009, announced the appointment of the new head of
Abingdon from September 2010. Please follow this link for more
information." Then there was a weblink on which, I'm afraid to
say, I didn't click.  "If they won't put the bloody name of the
bloody headmaster in an email, then they can't expect me to take
an interest!" I thought. I was having a bad day. "Exactly how
interesting do they expect me to find the name of some,
doubtless highly thought of, but to me almost certainly
anonymous, private sector academic? I get emails promising to
double the size of my cock and introduce me to Russian girls and
I don't follow those links, so why should I waste valuable
clicking seconds just to find out that 'Arthur P Geography is
excited by the challenge of Abingdon after a