Remembering Nuns

First published in Column 8, date unknown, but some time in the 1990s.

 In the memorycourse I did a while ago I was supposed to learn how to remember where I'd putthings years before, and how to recognize faces from the distant past. 

One face eludes me.Try as I might, I can't remember the face of the teacher, (a nun), who tied meto my desk with a belt because my childish exuberance was somewhat over thetop! 

On the other hand,during a recent visit to a convent, (for a friend's Jubilee), ...