Dear Da Wensta…

The remedials, as I recall, back in the day, were a ‘class of individuals’ best shunted into the dungeons of our glorious process in the name of Progress…

Curious how all these accepted terms now seem to acquire quite sinister undertones.

Still, there is nothing quite like having the wool pulled over your eyes before you really know what wool is. I always found that most of those folk were a lot more fun, and intelligent, than had been made out, but that is probably my oiky ‘Oirish’ coming to the fore, again.

I have been tussling with a new term designed to frighten the Gaolers – ‘ghaist volk’ or ‘folk geist’. You may have noticed the cunning combination of German, Scorts and English which should float the boat of all our europhiles, although, possibly not. I fear ’twas never a happy juxtaposition of allegiances, that one, more like a nest of harpies, but anyway…

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