How? Well, interestingly, the, probably the first one was my main teacher in the little village primary school I went to from age about five to eight, where I remember to this day remember one very sort of tyrant style teacher who was very highly disciplined and needed that discipline… Read More
Matins at 10, lunch at 12, another practice at one o’clock, even song at four o’clock to bed at six. It, it was quite a and a Sunday we had anything up to, you know, five or six services in one day. So, so that sort of, you know, that,… Read More
Formal schooling? Formal, Well, from eight, from eight to 13 until my voice broke as a treble at St. Paul’s then went to a boarding school in Surrey St. John School, Leatherhead, which was, which was a school largely for sons of the clergy. The reason for that was financial… Read More
Did any teachers have an effect on your life?… Read More
Well, very, very familiar with, with Whipsnade, particularly because the little village Cheney’s that I mentioned, where I grew up just north of London, was only 20 miles maybe from Whipsnade. So visits to Whipsnade on a more or less a couple of times a year were common. So I… Read More
What kind of formal schooling do you have?… Read More
What impressions did they have on you?… Read More
Before finally, you know, in finally applying for vet college, What zoos did you see growing up?… Read More
And then when I moved to boarding secondary school, high school had a a a major had a, both a young farmer society and a, a natural history society, which I got very involved with and led them both at one time or another. So keeping everything from jays and… Read More
And there were still bomb sites everywhere. The cathedral stood isolated, literally in a sea of bomb sites. It was a pretty dramatic sort of place for a young person to be made. One very homesick because I wanted to be out in the green fields, 40 miles to the… Read More
And so, you know, from a very early age at a time and of course security, children’s security, nobody really worried about it. So my brother and I have one full brother to a half, brother and sister as well, could roam at will. And there was a stream, a… Read More
So father used to have, you know, he would have a two on a Sunday morning, we’d have two or three baptisms in a row on a Saturday. He’d have three weddings in a row ’cause of the picturesque nature of the church. And so we boys were sort of… Read More
Were animals part of your life?… Read More
Yeah, very, very much so. I mean, we, we had, when we’d, obviously from the time I can remember, I was in this village to the north of London with, and it was the house we lived in called the Rectory was one of those lovely Georgian, completely unhealable houses,… Read More
Both of Welsh, the whole family, both sides of Welsh extraction. Father was an Anglican minister, a rector in the Church of England who had a parish, started as a curate, a junior priest where I was born. And then at my age three we moved, we moved down to… Read More
And who were your parents and what did they do?… Read More
Well, I’m David Jones, and I was born in the north country in England, in Cheshire on the 14th of August, 1944. So I’ve just had my 80th birthday. Read More
And wow. Read More
I was like, it doesn’t cost you anything. Read More
But always the first question is, what’s this cost?… Read More