LIFE LESSONS: "You can't be good at everything."
The Wittering Whitehalls
Global
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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When the DL's have a cracking story to tell, The Wittering Whitehalls are all ears. This week, "Mrs Chips" (it's possible this is a pseudonym!) has a hilarious tale from her stint on the school camp, as a dedicated teacher of 7-9 year olds... Not an easy task!
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| 0:31.6 | Diels, welcome back to the bonus Epp from Whitehall Towers. |
| 0:36.5 | I want to share with you because it is relevant to the email we are doing today for the bonus ep, because the life lesson that I'm coming to actually came from the person that I'm about to talk about. |
| 0:47.0 | I went to another formal event last week to one of the worshipful companies. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm not going to say which one, because that would be too identifiable. |
| 0:58.1 | And as you know, they are the worshipful companies, are they mired in sort of secrets? |
| 1:03.5 | They're not quite like the masons, are they? |
| 1:05.3 | But there are several of them, the worshipful companies. |
| 1:09.7 | I mean, I'm going to give you a little bit of a hint |
| 1:11.4 | because the etymology of sixes and sevens is to do with this particular worshipful company |
| 1:17.1 | who have beef with the one that is either above them or below them. They have to share six |
| 1:22.0 | and seven in the list of worshipful companies because they couldn't agree back in 1522 and the suggestion was that they |
| 1:29.0 | should swap every year so they do hence being at sixes and sevens. I got very excited though. |
| 1:35.6 | I went on my own because Mr. Whitehall, we had a very complicated day and it was deemed that Mr. |
| 1:40.9 | Whitehall would not be able to deal with a full black-tied dinner with speeches |
| 1:46.2 | after the day that we'd had. |
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