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by icomefromalanddownunder
Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:15 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: School reports and the 'Big Picture'
Replies: 10
Views: 7379

Re: School reports and the 'Big Picture'

I have my reports - saved by Mum. Mine (65-70) are all single pages, with subject designated boxes.
by icomefromalanddownunder
Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:51 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: RIP Midget
Replies: 15
Views: 5253

Re: RIP Midget

I will do an obit for the next issue of The Old Blue but the copy deadline is just a few days away. Thank you for taking on this task Jo. Will it be possible to ensure that Maggie's family receive a copy? I believe that her husband was well aware of her activity on the Forum, and how much we respec...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:47 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: That date rings a bell....
Replies: 41
Views: 9598

Re: That date rings a bell....

What might my life have been like if 'd gone with them.......? I don't suppose I'd be about to be installed as Rector of Haslemere. All very odd really. I've been playing this game a lot recently, and for me it always comes back to my son and daughter - who probably wouldn't be part of my life if I...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:23 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Riots, London and Elsewhere
Replies: 72
Views: 18927

Re: Riots, London and Elsewhere

I've been playing with horses all weekend, and only briefly heard from the radio that there had been riots in Tottenham. Clearly things are much worse than I thought. Off to google. Thinking of you all.

xx
by icomefromalanddownunder
Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:30 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Books studied in English
Replies: 42
Views: 18233

Re: Books studied in English

A Yorkshire-English dictionary! :shock: Am moving to Yorkshire at the end of the month, to commence granny duties in October, so am excited that there is such a publication... ( Does it deal with Yorkshire as a whole, or does one need to specify whether one is trying to converse with a North, West ...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:15 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: The School Rules
Replies: 105
Views: 37072

Re: The School Rules

Liz, Alex, Willow and I took a nostalgic walk across the Meads when we gathered to view 'Forgotten Blues'. I had completely forgotten the tow path, the canal that just stops, and the little cottages that must have flooded many times. There is now a café (Starbucks?) on the bank closest to town, and...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:59 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: TWO deaths : Betty Jukes and Jean Taverner
Replies: 37
Views: 17773

Re: TWO deaths : Betty Jukes and Jean Taverner

If I don't remove the spoon it invariably inserts itself in my left nostril.
by icomefromalanddownunder
Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:59 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Hertford to Horsham
Replies: 36
Views: 10929

Re: Hertford to Horsham

When I read Neill's post I thought that he was referring to 'Half to Remember'. Maybe DR was a great Headmistress in the eyes of all when she was young and new to the position. I feel that it is wrong for any institution to permit someone to remain in the same position for the length of time that DR...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:56 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Hertford to Horsham
Replies: 36
Views: 10929

Re: Hertford to Horsham

The sad fact is that I was a disaffected loser while at Hertford, and for many years after leaving there, courtesy of the great career advice given ('You cannot be a Veterinary Surgeon. You are a woman' 'You realise that you will never amount to anything when people see, from your cv, that you did n...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:46 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: TWO deaths : Betty Jukes and Jean Taverner
Replies: 37
Views: 17773

Re: TWO deaths : Betty Jukes and Jean Taverner

Hi Kerren Thank you for passing on this information. I only spent one (two?) terms under BJ's tutelage, so will leave others to contribute to her obit. My enduring memory of Miss Taverner is of her playing the Widor. I am still stirred as I hear the wonderful, stirring notes in my head and remember ...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:29 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Springwatch
Replies: 6
Views: 2445

Re: Springwatch

While stripping the flowers from Elderflower bunches (purely for medicinal puropses -- nothing to do with Elderflower Wine ! :oops: ) Oh, how I miss elderflowers and elderberries. We did manage to grow a bush in a very sheletered area at the farm. It flowered beautifully, but the berries were scarc...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Tue May 31, 2011 12:53 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Pan's People
Replies: 19
Views: 8221

Re: Pan's People

I'm sure rumours of your passion for Chip Hawkes reached over the Square to 6's, Mary. :? dredges deep into memory :wink: "Silence is Golden, Golden " (scream) and a big centrefold in Rave magazine? He was lucky to have you! :lol: Has anyone other than me ever heard The Band's version of ...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Thu May 19, 2011 2:38 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Coat buttons
Replies: 3
Views: 1734

Re: Coat buttons

Ajarn Philip wrote:Can anyone (and I have no doubt someone can!) tell me what the initials stand for on the coat button?

Edwarduudus VI D. G. Rex F.

Thank you.

Isn't it something to do with being King by the grace of God? So, Deo gratias Rex, um and then I come unstuck - fidelis?
by icomefromalanddownunder
Sun May 15, 2011 1:45 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Do You Still Appear in Public in a Swimsuit ?
Replies: 51
Views: 11491

Re: Do You Still Appear in Public in a Swimsuit ?

Niece's partner to niece's favourite Aunt (during visit to Andalucia last year): 'Caroline! You are going to wear a bikini???????????????????' Caroline to Liam: 'I most certainly am not. This is a tankini.' 'A what?' 'A fat person's bikini'. The only benefit of a tankini over a one-piece is that it ...
by icomefromalanddownunder
Sun May 01, 2011 1:35 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Weddings...
Replies: 332
Views: 51738

Re: Weddings...

Chris Blewett wrote: You do have to remember that their primary role is not ceremonial/public (like the police) but military (not preaching!),
:D
Surely, now that the powers that be prefer nukes to bows and arrows, the horses' only role is ceremonial?