…At lunchtime it was recorder practice so I gobbled and scoffed down my food…

I’d learned to play the recorder a year or so earlier.

Like everyone, I started on a soprano, but had recently moved on to a treble. I was pleasantly surprised to find I enjoyed the experience, but always had terrible trouble with the fingering.

And if anyone finds any sort of double meaning in that paragraph, consider me stunned*.

Next you’ll be saying there’s something funny about the word ‘semi-breve’.

*Besides, there’s only one sort of double meaning that I can see.