h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thank you for your input on Peter Pan and welcome. I've not been here long myself and find the site a great place. I hope you do as well.

Hi Al! (I hope you don't mind being called Al, in preference to Grumpy or Alembic?) Why Alembic? I googled it, you're a manufacturer of stringed instruments or tasty condiments, or you're an alchemical still. I just don't know which!

I have spent all evening hunting for teachers and such, to see if I can find other people in my (teacher-ish) position. Any idea where to hunt?

Good luck with more QI questions! Fun game, I will go back and play again!

Alembic - the distilling apparatus for refining something 'raw'.

Teachers - I don't think there is much that is identifiable except hootoo probably has quite an appeal to those who teach.

How do I know - I was a teacher. Secondary Comp maths. So serendipity strikes again.

Serendipity and stuff - I'm a maths teacher! OK, so I'm a tutor for Adult Continuing Ed., but it still counts! I help people retake their Maths GCSEs, & am constantly gobsmacked by their previous teachers' attitudes! (not pointing fingers here - if you're distilling raw students, they're obviously concentrating...)

Was a teacher, though? You're not currently?

SW

Retired, ill health (stress related). I have a little part time job, not teaching.

It's astonishing how many teachers suffer that complaint. I'm surprised there are any teachers left!

(In Adult Ed, most students seem to want to be there. At least I seem to get less trouble than teachers in the school-lessons I observed!)

The only thing I miss is the company of some great kids - trouble is I don't think I can remember most of them now. Although I did, spookily, bump into one of them on the South Bank in London whilst I was visiting.

I'm too busy to teach.