Spent a great eight years there and then needed a change..came home for a year and taught in Buckingham, followed by two years in Mexico. Left Mexico declaring that I had had enough of teaching so went and sat in Hawaii for a couple of months. Didn't take long before I was back in teaching again, working in Singapore. Two years there followed by a year out back at college doing an Honours Degree.

After that went to teach in Essex, but after three years decided that I needed to be back overseas again. I am now teaching in Qatar and enjoying that thoroughly. The main 'up side' of being a teacher is that you can travel easily with the job and the main 'down side' is that you can not get back to reunions at the required time!

I was very sorry not to have been able to make the reunion in 1999. There are lots of faces that I would have loved to have seen. Having read just about every word that has been added to 'our' website, memories have flooded back, and many a smile has resulted. I loved Bedales for a lot of reasons, and as a family of four children we have a lot of fond memories of our time there.

I can not say however, that I owe Bedales anything in terms of my academic success, small that it is. I was advised to quit school after O'levels and Miss Proverbs (for those who remember her) advised me to become a child chiropodist, which in itself was quite unexpected. I didn't. I had always wanted to go in to teaching, and it seems I do it quite well.... It took my Dad's nagging for almost twenty years to get me back to college to do my degree, something Bedales left me thinking I could never achieve. I am very interested when I read similar stories, not only in our year, but on other Bedales pages as well.

I am home regularly. I stay with my Mum in Guildford and would love to hear from anyone that would like to get in touch. If you're ever passing through Qatar do drop in.....Trish