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by Alexandra Thrift
Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:03 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Hot breakfasts
Replies: 70
Views: 20159

Re: Salad dressing

Dressing on salads-you haven't lived until you try the standard (ie every) Sunday lunch between 1944 and 1952. Corned beef, plain boiled potato and winter salad- chopped cabbage,celery and beetroot- with no dressing and no taste. Still we all survived and I did enjoy the economy lunch when rations ...
by Alexandra Thrift
Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:59 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Hot breakfasts
Replies: 70
Views: 20159

Food Strike

I thought Ros. Bush was Head Girl. I remember the strike...loved it ! The Monday mince was so vile ! After, it was indeed curried with big lumps of strawberry jam in it.....I liked it. Yeah...we got sauce ( to drown the taste ) after the strike.Who remembers Entwhistle sauce or Oswhistle or somethin...
by Alexandra Thrift
Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:16 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Hot breakfasts
Replies: 70
Views: 20159

Kippers.

I liked kippers too,englishangel ( despite the off-putting description) ...but my grammar was a bit muddled!
by Alexandra Thrift
Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:09 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Tea & coffee
Replies: 36
Views: 11527

Tea bowls

I think we had a name for those bowls,but I can't remember it ( not kif). When I started at Hertford there were still some of the old style bowls being used, with a blue pattern around the rim and the Christ's Hosp. crest . Also we learned to hold them in a certain way using the thumb, index and mid...
by Alexandra Thrift
Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:00 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Hot breakfasts
Replies: 70
Views: 20159

Kippers!

Englishangel....how could you forget Kippers for breakfast!! Few girls( of which I was one) liked them ....swimming around as they did in that yellow oily liquid ,encased in crispy armour plated skin. They were bonier than any other unfilleted fish known to mankind, and eating them was a major arche...
by Alexandra Thrift
Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:39 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: CH food
Replies: 160
Views: 54307

Yum yum...Miss Jukes "Lemon Curd" For some reason Miss Jukes made me feel hopeless at cookery but I've grown up to be ( so I'm told) more than competent and I enjoy it.However I cook the intuitive way rather than the " stick precisely to the recipe and method" way and Betty would...
by Alexandra Thrift
Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:14 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Ashbourne
Replies: 38
Views: 15450

Ashbourne

How could we possibly forget " Ashbourne" after all the hours we spent traipsing up there and back. It was usually in a "crocodile" though wasn't it.The journey took longer than the game of hockey or er...what else did we play there? I remember the strange musty,leathery smell of...
by Alexandra Thrift
Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:15 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Forum Section - Hertford Memories
Replies: 483
Views: 173391

Thanks for the help, englishangel

...I will get around to reading the insructions on how to use this forum, I just haven't had time ! I will also email you; again no time at the moment and I would rather think about what I write. I think I know who "euterpe" is .Lovely to hear from her. I was amused by her comment about ho...
by Alexandra Thrift
Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:55 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Forum Section - Hertford Memories
Replies: 483
Views: 173391

Spinsters

I must explain that there is a post higher in the thread by "Guest" and that "Guest" is me and I must have omitted to log-on. However it is interesting to see that I can do that if I want and make a post kind of anonymous. When I registered and gave my real name I didn't realise ...
by Alexandra Thrift
Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:36 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: New Forum Section - Hertford Memories
Replies: 483
Views: 173391

Hertford section

It's not going to happen overnight Englishangel. I only recently looked for and found this forum, and quite frankly nearly didn't bother to post as it was too difficult to find anything remotely relevant to my experience of C.H.It was almost like a forum about another school !! That coupled with the...
by Alexandra Thrift
Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:46 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Favourite teacher
Replies: 240
Views: 116921

Hi Eternalangel (your own name is much quicker and you've posted a pic. of yourself! ), Sorry I missed the pic. in the Daily Mail,can you email me and tell me about the twins? My son is 13 ,adolescent and huge. I asked the Mod. to start a Hertford Section...somewhat late in the day I fear. Just thou...
by Alexandra Thrift
Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: 19c Tissot painting found on the net
Replies: 18
Views: 11633

19c Tissot painting found on the net

http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/ARTH200/tissot_LondonVisitorsM.jpg http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/museum_entrance.html With this commentary:(further down the page) "Also remember that Tissot painted his painting at the height of the British Empire. Studies...
by Alexandra Thrift
Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:10 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Favourite teacher
Replies: 240
Views: 116921

Hi Mary, I did spot your photo when I first posted here a few days ago! Thanks for the info of four years ago. I will investigate. Sad to hear that Chemi.T. passed away. She was a character ! I'm sure half the explosions and dubious demonstrations she did for us in the lab. wouldn't be allowed these...
by Alexandra Thrift
Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:42 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Favourite teacher
Replies: 240
Views: 116921

I agree with Sabina ( Hi Sabina!) regarding Jean Taverner .She is a naturally shy person and yet somehow, unassumingly, got a beautiful sound out of us.My only claim to fame at Hertford was a leader of the choir for a brief period.I would have happily done " choir" for every lesson . I was...