Ever the optomist

  Now you managed the tricky spellings - tedious, commitment - but failed dismally on glass half full!

In my short time on this forum I have noticed that there are a number of very clever people here. Are you one of them Fillide? I feel privileged to be here. It has some similarities to my old school. The contacts I made there took me further than my very average brain & the very average teaching could ever have done. Contact with people like you could possibly produce similar results. When rubbing shoulders with the great & the good though one can become too easily drunk from the exciting & heady atmosphere, but experience has taught me to prevent my basic scepticism from becoming too relaxed. Be patient with me though and explain what you are trying to say in this last post. In simple language that I might understand. Over obsessive attention to spelling, punctuation & grammar is the mark of a pedant & I accept my share of blame here though make mistakes with appalling regularity. The English language is a wonderful gift yet time is an even more precious one. Let's not waste it.  

  Well, Goodness My Colonel. That was rather a lovely Forum Post to read on Valentine's Day, and the reference to time being short must indeed be true if you can still don your original issue putees. (It would truly depress me if I thought you had obtained them from e-bay.) I have a notion that our less than star-crossed paths may have intersected in a previous life. Maybe in Trafalmadore? Perhaps we should recapture past idylls.... (I did not appreciate your reference to a long held commitment  to a 'certain' lady. I remain irretrievably uncertain.)