No Alison, that's not it, infact I don't think I know that one !

I'll have to dig out the old Hymn book and look thro' the well thumbed pages.

Which made me remember,we used to write our names across the top of the hymn book and keep it in our top blazer pocket.(you had to have your hymn book with you at all times)

Now if you were ever late for school in the mornings a prefect on the gate would take your name by reading it from the top of your hymn book..if you were late twice or more in one week you were on detention.

so what we did was have someone else's name on the bottom of the hymn book, preferably someone who was a bit of a swot and was never late..then if you were late for the second time that week you turned your hymn book round in your pocket so that the swots name could be clearly seen and you entered school via a different entrance...

that's why when ever anyone has a thread with anything that vaguely resembles a hymn I get a cold shiver...

love and happines

Ritchie (or is it Peter Ponsibly-Smythe)