Introduction - 0 View from above upon arrival - 1 First Akbar door - 2 Gear - 3 Meeting the Division - 4 First Communion at Akbar - 5 Shepherd - 6 Lights out - 7 Vultures - 8 Get h’on Parade! - 9 Bandy - 10 Wakey–wakey! - 11 Smartening rig - 12 Economy Star - 13 Poetry Club - 14 The Writer - 15 The Skipper - 16 Boating - 17 Seamanship - 18 The Skipper's Kippers - 19 Moot Court - 20 Dirty Mary - 21 Cross–country - 22 Sailorboy - 23 Church Parade - 24 Fellini fragment on Jildy - 25 Deckscrap - 26 Cinderella Days - 27 Long Tom for 'Dead Men' - 28 Waiting for Podmore - 29 Akbar - 30 The Path - 31 Cross–country One fine summer's day under blue skies the whole school did a great cross–country run. The whole of Wirral lay bright and clear under a sweet sun and the run Was a regular long–distance obstacle course. Pounding along in ammunition boots we saw two lads sheer off, start running for the sunset tiny figures diminishing in distance. They ran the length of Wirral down to Wallasey, dropped with exhaustion Then someone turned them about and doubled them back aboard. Fun as it was when they took off they could not sit to eat for several days.

© Bill Meilen & Ravensong International 2007.