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- Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:56 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: House Marks?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6968
I'm utterly grateful that there was no custom of attacking each others' nipples at Hertford. Of all the bullying/punishment systems I've ever heard anywhere this seems to me to be utterly cruel and bizarre! Somewhere, there's an account of one boy using pliers on another's nipples! I can't imagine ...
- Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:57 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: House Marks?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6968
Re: "You silly child. What have you been doing?"
re Canned tuna I feel an up-chuck coming on). I'm not surprised............ Phew, all better now. Anyway, I do ask, but never expect an objection, and was somewhat miffed when the tosser who has the desk next to mine replied that he did, indeed, object to me eating tuna in his vicinity :roll: I may ...
- Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:48 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: School Needlework
- Replies: 218
- Views: 53335
I remember wearing the bed jackets in the Infirmary, and also having to make the collars ! we made, a striped skirt, 3 three-piece green linen suit, with sprigged cotton lining - inside facings properly tacked too! ( remember how she used to unpick linings to see if you had done the herringbone tac...
- Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: An embarrassing and slightly stupid question...
- Replies: 60
- Views: 13884
Must dash, it's time for bed, and there's something large and hairy buzzing around the room . I hope you don't have a partner who could take offence to that ... He posted that at 6.42pm. Maybe the large hairy thing is his partner though as for what the partner thinks of going to bed at 6.42pm - ask...
- Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Deputy Grecian-2007+
- Replies: 1343
- Views: 236306
I know this is a slight deviation of the current topic but I don't know whether we have to pay for the exams taken because in some schools parents have to pay separately for exam costs. Is this the same at ch? Note to Josh!. If you see this before you get on msn or before 6pm etc Please sort out yo...
- Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Life after the taps run dry
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2388
Re: water water everywhere
Having not lived in England for 14 years, I was made quite homesick when I came across this in the Guardian; "What can you do? You can either sob or try to enjoy the spectacle," Chin up guys - I'm sure that we'll all be back in drought conditions within a few short months. xx To think tha...
- Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:04 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Bullying & Abuse - Take II
- Replies: 132
- Views: 55515
Bullying certainly existed in my day at CH and I was on the wrong end of some of it. However I don't think CH was necessarially any worse than any other school, it just seemed worse because there was no respite for the victims away from the School which you would get at a day school. At a day schoo...
- Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: The End Is Nigh (This Means You)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 16474
My father was gassed in WWII (yes, it was enemy action!) and my mother died of post operative complications, both of them around 56 years of age. OTOH my mother's brother went through into his 80's and their sister into her late 70's. I should last a few more days - but not the 30 years or so predi...
- Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: The End Is Nigh (This Means You)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 16474
It's an indication, not a guarantee. My grandmother died of TB in her 40's, her husband was gassed in WWI and wheezed all his life up to 81, my other grandfather was an asthmatic (invalided out of the Civil Service in his 40's) and died in his early 60's, yet one of his sons had Emphysema all his l...
- Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: JR gets everywhere!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4383
All this talk of stockings and suspenders is making me get all unneccessary ! I was going to say 'come over all unneccessary' but thought twice.... ! Just as well, you might shock the young people here. Maggie After CH I wonder if any of them are shockable? (OK so Gemma hasn't been through the mill...
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Break the record
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3714
Re: Shock Horror
I think we shoulkd keep going. I hear sales are down over 50% in the last 2 years and if we don't do SOMETHING we won't be able to get them at all. Horrified to read this Mary! I have had great trouble getting traditional black seamed stockings with the woven heel, it's true. When I investigated th...
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Deputy Grecian-2007+
- Replies: 1343
- Views: 236306
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: The End Is Nigh (This Means You)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 16474
Re: Expliquez! (If that's the word...)
Thai lingerie shops must be rather heavenly. Sigh! Angela and the rest! There is one place in Bang kok (down, JR, down) which is a bit of a shopping mall in 8 floors. One area, on one floor, about 200 yards plus by 100 yards sells nothing but mobile phones. I didn't check out the silk stockings or ...
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: The End Is Nigh (This Means You)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 16474
The summer of 2015 at the age of 68 !! So I have 10 years left to live. I'd better start doing the things I've never got round to doing yet. :roll: It says I will even outlive Mary; what to do for the next 26 years is a bit of a problem when I have trouble getting through each day :cry: (I have alr...
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: The End Is Nigh (This Means You)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 16474
Re: The End Is Nigh (This Means You)
Feeling a bit fed up? Try cheering yourself up with http://www.deathclock.com In case you were wondering, my own result was Sunday June 10 2012. What, me worry? Obviously you lead a decadent life. Given you are 4 now that makes it an age of 9 when you die - not even old enough to get to CH. So, wha...