...does anyone recall "Notes for the Guidance of Flight Cadets"?
Ah yes, a splendid document clearly written by some grammar school oik intent on attempting to prove that he was from other than an oikish background. It included the requirement to wear a hat (yes, really!) in Lincoln, Sleaford or Grantham whilst 'off-duty'...
Hence Retford and Newark were quite popular. Burning the sodding hat was a ritual we university-destined ex-Flt Cdts-suddenly-APOs of 99 Entry enjoyed hugely.
When one returned to Towers after a short 4 year sojourn up at University, one amusing paper distributed to us was clearly aimed at those of even lower-than-grammar school origin. It almost mentioned that peas were not to be eaten off the knife, but whichever idiot wrote it included the comment that '...foods such as frogs' legs or snails may be eaten with the fingers'. Clearly the nouveau idiot had never eaten a snail; these are normally served at roughly one degree cooler than nuclear plasma and would cause second degree burns if eaten with the fingers.
It was really quite fun winding up the appallingly working class oiks who passed as Flt Cdrs in the early days of the GE system - one 17GE student pilot actually outranked his ex-Henlow Supply Officer Flt Cdr, but was polite enough not to force the issue! The Royal Air Force College had indeed been rather splendid a mere few years earlier!