"EXCUSE ME!"

"Did you used to teach in Bury St Edmunds?

"Your food tech lessons were great! They really inspired me"

Well, thank you, I said to the young man who had accosted me as I walked my daughter to the bus. I asked what brought him to Yorkshire. I didn't ask why he was carrying a chicken costume. That seemed obvious to me.

"University."

Yes indeed, and one of The Russel Group to boot! Are you studying food, I asked.

"Nah, history."

Ah well, can't claim much credit there, but it's nice to spotted and stopped in the street two hundred miles and two years from the school you taught at and thanked for being a decent teacher no matter what the subject.