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5h17shoveller wrote:AS LONG AS THE SCHOOL IS ALIVE THE UNIFORM SHOULD NEVER CHANGE.
Absolutely!!!!
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lonelymom wrote:
5h17shoveller wrote:I PRESUME I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THAT THE HOUSEY COATS WERE BLACK ,SO WHY IS IT A BLUE COAT SCHOOL ?
The two housey coats I've got in my house at the moment are definitely navy blue.
Maybe I am colour blind , but all my photos look like black,and wearing them for 6 years I would bet quite a bit of dosh on it !
Maybe, it could be my memory !
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I must admit I was surprised by the blackness of the coats when I first arrived at CH station all those years ago. But blue they were...
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michael scuffil wrote:I must admit I was surprised by the blackness of the coats when I first arrived at CH station all those years ago. But blue they were...
crickey, opticians for me after xmas !!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Angela Woodford wrote:
sejintenej wrote: I noticed today that in the last surviving pair there is now a hole in one toe and a hole in the sole.
A touch of Vièr Bliu perhaps; after over 55 years use it is bye-bye. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Think Hertford, David! :lol:

Friday night is Mending Night! :wink: A couple of holes? Darn, darn, darn! You mustn't let those historic socks die!

We had a darning mushroom in the House Mending Box. It had a glossy sheen from a long life of duty!
Should anyone need a darning mushroom, let me know. They are frequently given to charity shops, whereupon my colleague and I give a lesson on darning to anyone who will listen. You can see the younger customers thinking "AH poor old things"
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I still have my darning mushroom, marked with my ward and locker number. The top unscrews to reveal a hollow stem to store needles.
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5h17shoveller wrote:Maybe I am colour blind , but all my photos look like black,and wearing them for 6 years I would bet quite a bit of dosh on it !Maybe, it could be my memory !
Aaaaargh, I wish I'd taken that bet! :D
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lonelymom wrote:
5h17shoveller wrote:Maybe I am colour blind , but all my photos look like black,and wearing them for 6 years I would bet quite a bit of dosh on it !Maybe, it could be my memory !
Aaaaargh, I wish I'd taken that bet! :D
Say you did - his memory is obviously shot anyway! :lol:
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Good idea! Will you be my witness? We can split it 50/50. He did say there would be 'quite a bit of dosh' :D
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lonelymom wrote:Good idea! Will you be my witness? We can split it 50/50. He did say there would be 'quite a bit of dosh' :D
Image it's a deal! :lol:
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Oh 5h17shoveller, where are youuuuuu?
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Angela Woodford wrote:
sejintenej wrote: I noticed today that in the last surviving pair there is now a hole in one toe and a hole in the sole.
A touch of Vièr Bliu perhaps; after over 55 years use it is bye-bye. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Think Hertford, David! :lol:

Friday night is Mending Night! :wink: A couple of holes? Darn, darn, darn! You mustn't let those historic socks die!
We had a darning mushroom in the House Mending Box. It had a glossy sheen from a long life of duty!
Were you a late developer? :wink: we learned darning in primary school - which I left at age 9 - but without a mushroom. The big problem is that you must always mend with the same material and I don't know if John Lewis sell 55 year old blue wool.

Of course if Hertford pupils want to practice ................. lets not think along those lines please.

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I decided, while still "Dealing" in Antiques, to collect something unusual,and CHEAP.

I started my Mother on Buttonhooks --- which have a precise bracket of time -- and she collected a good number, which we sold foe some hundreds of pounds, when she was 95 !!!

I thought of collecting Darning Mushrooms --- another varied project, but really failed to get started ---- too late now !


I boast, that I can darn woollen sockss with neat woven squares, but this is not due to my Mother's foresight, but the Brigade of Guards --------

"You 'orribble little man --- you call that neat ? --- one extra Drill --- Idle Darning " !!!!! :oops:
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I still own a darning mushroom, in polished wood with a removable top as Frances described. I rarely use it. Several years ago while buying shoe-polish I enquired about darning wool. "Wassat?" came the charming reply. "It's for darning socks", I explained patiently. The girl looked at her colleague disbelievingly & they both shrugged. "Never 'eard of it," she said, as though that statement proved it must be a figment of my warped imagination. You can still find it on some market stalls, if you're lucky enough to live near a market, and thrifty enough to want to mend socks. :(
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lonelymom wrote:Oh 5h17shoveller, where are youuuuuu?
I'm here in the snowy north.

Just realised why the housey coats appeared to me to be that colour.

All my photos are in black and white. :lol:

:rolleyes: :wink:

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