Part the third (and fourth, for that matter).
Part-the-third (first two bits are on page one).

My teacher at primary school in Wales bullied me and all the other kids (90% RAF-brats, not going to be living in Wales after we left school) into learning five lessons of Welsh to one lesson of English.

In the interests of gaining something that wasn't quite revenge but might have felt like it ... I stood up to her (aged about 8, I think) and ended up with the headmaster for my insolence.

I got to read science books (mathematics particularly) when the rest of the class had Welsh lessons. All of the ace :).

Part-the-fourth

Eric Ross ("hello, if you're reading"). Looked like a dinosaur, refused to let me on to the BBC B computer when I was 11-years old because I wanted to do some cosmology and astrophysics calculations.

Despite my having a liking for maths, he thought for some obscure reason that I was taking the p*** as most of the other kids who were in his maths class were.

My satisfaction was palpable when I returned to the school with my first in pure maths ... :D
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Thu 21 May 2009, 9:53, 5 replies)

well
Learning Welsh in Welsh schools is part of the curriculum... irrespective of whether you're going to be end up living there or not.

If you went to a German school in Germany, you'd expect to have lessons in German, no?
( rofl harris, Thu 21 May 2009, 10:06, closed)

Agreed
but with a 5:1 ratio of Welsh to English? Sod that.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Thu 21 May 2009, 10:53, closed)

Cymraeg ftw!
I don't quite see how it was bullying?
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Thu 21 May 2009, 10:30, closed)

On the down side
you have a first in pure maths.
( WormuIus, Thu 21 May 2009, 10:43, closed)

And an interest in astrophysics
so it's either go off with a two headed alien or it's back to the dole queue on Monday...
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 21 May 2009, 11:26, closed)