Senior Wife
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:44 am
I expect the Ghananian Chief was bowled over by Katharine's blonde beauty. She would indeed have been a splendid prize!
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Yes; they did like "interesting" name combinations though my boy (from just above your area) had only tribal names; Adua Ankrah Grunshie. The Grunshie tribe spanned the border with Cote d'Ivoire and though he was from there he didn't speak French.Katharine wrote: Thank you David for those few kind words - however we weren't in Akan country but Frafra I think. It was certainly in the far north of Ghana.
We had gone out for a drive one Sunday, two male members of staff the small boy and myself. The small boy being the house boy who worked for us and rejoiced in his choice of name, Stanislaus Clement Ebenezer. How he came to choose those names I never learnt. He must have been in his mid-teens at the time. When we lost the track and got lost we found this chief's compound and went in for Stan to get us directions. The marriage negotiations had to take place before we could get our directions. We did manage to return to the school where we all lived and worked.
I remember the advert but hadn't caught the connection. I don't think that I came across a Comfort (NOT that way JR!). Reminds me that my wife went to school with sisters Faith, Hope and Charity and a Joy. The other name I remember would not get past the censor!Katharine wrote:Thinking about mattresses were they showing the seductive photos to advertise Vono (?) mattresses when you were there? These had a lovely young lady, not one of the giantesses you describe, reclining on a mattress and had the caption Comfort on a Vono mattress (For those who don't know Ghana, at that time, if not now, Comfort was a popular choice for a girl's name. I taught several girls called Comfort)
I remember the team photos being taken in the Summer term, and proofs coming around the houses. Anyone could order if they really wanted a photo of their crack but they weren't cheap (to me anyway!) I was neither in one nor bought one at any time. If someone was in a lot of teams they had to keep changing during the photo session, so that they were wearing the correct uniform. Kerren was in at least hockey, tennis and cricket but in my time, I think both tennis and cricket wore white 'tennis dressses'.englishangel wrote:I think photos were taken of teams (Kerren has mentioned her hockey team photo), but I don't ever remember 'school' photos as they take in state schools.
Katharine wrote:Anyone could order if they really wanted a photo of their crack but they weren't cheap
Precious Mackenzie (?sp) Olympic gold weightlifter AFAIRAngela Woodford wrote:I once met a glorious black guy called Precious. A perfect name for him.
In my youth that Precious could have been wonderful at picking me up!sejintenej wrote:Precious Mackenzie (?sp) Olympic gold weightlifter AFAIRAngela Woodford wrote:I once met a glorious black guy called Precious. A perfect name for him.
A full explanation of this would be good !Vonny wrote: I hope JR doesn't see this
Katharine wrote:Anyone could order if they really wanted a photo of their crack but they weren't cheap
Why do you think I wrote it, Vonny? I told JR the other day that I was an innocent while at school! Now I just want to tantalise him with ideas of our life at Hertford!J.R. wrote:A full explanation of this would be good !Vonny wrote: I hope JR doesn't see this
Katharine wrote:Anyone could order if they really wanted a photo of their crack but they weren't cheap