Me as i was then ...

[Mahlerei]

Gosh, Mahleri ... what age did yuo have to be before they allowed you to wear long pants. Those are very short short pants.

That was summer uniform; long pants were worn in the winter. Yes, they do look very short, now that you mention it :)

[Nick Armstrong]

Testing? Not sure whether we are allowed to do this, and maybe the test hasn't worked anyway!

I think it hasn't...

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, they do look very short, now that you mention it :)

Still, modesty is being fiercely preserved among the seated by a 'cupped hands' technique that must have come in handy when defending against free kicks on the football field... inspired, it seems, by the head...

[french frank]

Still, modesty is being fiercely preserved

Especially by the lad seated on the left who seems to have forgotten to put his shorts on

[mercia]

that headmaster has the look of Oliver Ford Davies about him (IMO)

http://www.str.org.uk/graphics/events/other/orleans/oliver.jpg

has he just alighted from a bicycle? (trousers tucked in socks)

[amateur51]

Gosh, Mahleri ... what age did yuo have to be before they allowed you to wear long pants. Those are very short short pants.

Agreed, shb

I was wondering if the photo was sponsored by Werther's Originals

[Dave2002]

Testing? Not sure whether we are allowed to do this, and maybe the test hasn't worked anyway!

I was trying to link to this .... http://chevronone.com/movies/sherloc...ns-the-hobbit/ or something like it. The picture, anyway!

Failed, so I won't bother now.

[Nick Armstrong]

One has to be careful. On another board someone did use his own picture, but he looks rather like a well known character from a US TV series - I'm not apparently the only person to notice this.

Glad you put "US" in there - otherwise one might have thought you were drawing comparisons between our dead Amateur51 and the sained Margaret Rutherford...