Jim Perks – Seeing service records of 91 years of Perisher

For me I didn’t change any of the first Course, I knew what was going to happen on Day 1, I just had to tweak it and get the Orders out and get the Op Order printed and get it out to everybody ‘cos a lot of people … when was this? This was 2008, so we’re into 91 years of Perisher by then so …

Simon: Fairly well established.

Jim: Fairly well established and as Teacher of course there are some of the old Records that are there so you can see how it used to be run.

Simon: Goodness, that’s interesting.

Eyes only hasn’t changed and some of the actual documentation of how the Maths was developed, you could see from first principles how someone worked it out.

Simon: Little pencil notes in the margins.

Oh absolutely, little notebooks, pencil notes and stuff.