In the British Press 2014-20191

“Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson”

<div style=”width:100%;background-image:url(“/realm/A_L_123/A_L_trg.gif”);”>Hello Son of Scoop,

And if you haven’t posted before, may I please say a personal welcome to the Forum.

I trust you won’t object to my converting your references into proper links: Here and here.

If the facts are as presented in the press reports, in my opinion a sad and silly man, and an even sillier Mother, with the unfortunate girl caught in the middle.

Note that the jury returned ‘not guilty’ on two of the three charges, including the charge involving the use of the slipper.

As regards your second post, this estimable Forum has a long tradition of poetry, but you’ll have to do a lot better than that, I’m afraid! </div>

“Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson”

Thank you for the welcome and the proper links. I am on the look out for recent stories in the press that might be of interest to readers.

The rhyme is from a television advert jingle for the Daily Mail in the sixties.

SCOOP! Was a board game in which the players had to collect different kinds of stories to fill a newspaper. It got quite exciting when a story could or could not be included at the editor’s discretion.

“Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search. … yril+smith

“Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson”

“Daily Mail” “Former headteacher” “spanked wife” February 2014

“Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson”

<div style=”width:100%;background-image:url(“/realm/A_L_123/A_L_trg.gif”);”>Pedants like me will point out that the ex-headteacher in question did not spank his wife, he slippered her. In view of his age I hope that he was NOT drawing on his experience wielding a plimsoll as a Primary School teacher!

That said, I assume that this is the article referred to above by Son of Scoop.</div>

“Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson”

Hallo A_L

Pedants like me will point out that the ex-headteacher in question did not spank his wife, he slippered her.

Well if we are going to get pedantic about this then technically he slippered and erm.. spatula-ed her! What the lady should have done with the said spatula is put it to use as she fried his testicles, preferably after ripping them from his body but still attached would do!!

A pie chart of pain! What the in the name of all that’s holy is that all about. I can just imagine my husband on finding out I was having an affair going off to conduct a pie chart to illustrate his pain. I can just see it now, him presenting me with it and my getting offended by the lack of shaded pain area `why not all of it, you …….`

I don`t mean to make light of domestic abuse not at all, however they found their thrills on this occasion the lady said no and no means no as far as I am concerned. But a pie chart!! heavens above just when you think you`ve heard it all

I see the marriage all went a bit haywire after he was forced to resign following an affair with a member of staff, looking at porn on a school computer and sending bullying emails to his staff.
I bet a pound to a penny if it was not for the latter two he would not have lost his job over the first. If everybody who committed adultery was forced to resign I think the employment rate would be higher than it is at present.

My old Headmaster was an adulterous old goat if ever there was one, his poor wife taught at the school to. He did take a lot of time off, probably worn out, but he kept his job. Had it not been for the misuse of school property and the bullying I suspect the head in this case would have kept his job, the affair would have been considered a private matter.

“Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson”

<div style=”width:100%;background-image:url(“/realm/A_L_123/A_L_trg.gif”);”>Hello jd 19,

What a pleasure it is to see so many contributions from you today, or rather today and yesterday, for the benefit of those who keep time by boring old 24 hour periods! Spatula-ed eh? My goodness, on having a second look I see that you are absolutely correct. But you didn’t really expect me to read a Daily Mail article all the way through without some imperative such as your note of correction did you?

A kitchen spatula has in fact featured in these columns before, as an instrument of maternal discipline applied to one of our TWP contributors in her early years. A modern take, I suppose, on the wooden spoon wielded by the mother of another (sadly now absent for some time) female contributor.

On reading all the way through the Daily Mail article I have to say that Mr Jones initially sounds a thoroughly pleasant character. Viewing porn on a school computer, having an affair with a teaching assistant and sending bullying emails to his staff – absolutely no problems there then! But inflicting those horrors of modern life, pie charts and bar charts, on his poor wife! The chap is clearly an absolute bounder! Completely beyond the pale! Your suggested variant on Rocky Mountain Oysters as the action which should have been taken by his wife certainly has merit.

I am intrigued by the large photograph of the premises of Mold Crown Court which accompanies the Daily Mail article. A pleasant enough modern building, and it happened to be where Mr Jones was tried, but does the picture actually make any sort of valid contribution to the press report? Not in my opinion.</div>

“Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson”

“Daily Mail” music “spanked male students”