Sue Bowles
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Sue Bowles
Does anyone know who she is?
She joined in May 05 and last visited in Mid 2007, has never posted.
She is 56 today so a few weeks older than I am.
Lives in York and is in education.
I am going to pm her.
She joined in May 05 and last visited in Mid 2007, has never posted.
She is 56 today so a few weeks older than I am.
Lives in York and is in education.
I am going to pm her.
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Re: Sue Bowles
It couldn't possibly be be Susan Parkin, could it?
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Re: Sue Bowles
Susan Parkin's is the face that sprang to mind, but I couldn't then put a name to it, but surely she would be older?
Isn't Sue Bowles the woman on X Factor, which I never watch but saw all the newspaper hype?
Isn't Sue Bowles the woman on X Factor, which I never watch but saw all the newspaper hype?
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Re: Sue Bowles
Same here, but I think she is Susan Boyle.Fjgrogan wrote:
Isn't Sue Bowles the woman on X Factor, which I never watch but saw all the newspaper hype?
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Re: Sue Bowles
Isn't Susan Boyle the singer who almost, but not quite, won UK Idol and is currently appearing on South Australian TV screens every 10 minutes or so to promote a CD?anniexf wrote:Same here, but I think she is Susan Boyle.Fjgrogan wrote:
Isn't Sue Bowles the woman on X Factor, which I never watch but saw all the newspaper hype?
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Re: Sue Bowles
Yes, that's the one Caroline. Fastest selling debut album ever.
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Re: Sue Bowles
I wouldn't have remembered if you hadn't mentioned it, but yes, it is Sue Parkin. I did quite a lot of digging around on the forum and Friends Reunited last year, trying to get as many old 5s as possible for the second reunion at Hertford Museum, and Sue was one of the people I found. She was one of the few who replied - she couldn't make it but sent her best wishes.Fjgrogan wrote:Susan Parkin's is the face that sprang to mind, but I couldn't then put a name to it, but surely she would be older?
Isn't Sue Bowles the woman on X Factor, which I never watch but saw all the newspaper hype?
In the event we only had about 4 other 5s people, but it was a very pleasant day nonetheless.
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Re: Sue Bowles
Perhaps she was young for her year then.
We had Sues Boggett, Betteridge, Halls and Foakes in my year.
We had Sues Boggett, Betteridge, Halls and Foakes in my year.
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Re: Sue Bowles
"Susan" must have been the most popular name for the mid-fifties mother to choose for a baby girl.
We had Susan Parkin, Susan Lintott and Sue Osborne.
I remember Sue Osborne incurring the chill scorn of Queenie, who never used nicknames. " Were you christened Sue?" she enquired. Then she shrugged in that horrified Queenie way.
We never called Susan P "Sue". She was always "Parkin". Trish'n'Parkin were the two best friends I particularly remember!
We had Susan Parkin, Susan Lintott and Sue Osborne.
I remember Sue Osborne incurring the chill scorn of Queenie, who never used nicknames. " Were you christened Sue?" she enquired. Then she shrugged in that horrified Queenie way.
We never called Susan P "Sue". She was always "Parkin". Trish'n'Parkin were the two best friends I particularly remember!
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Re: Sue Bowles
I wonder at what point people lose the names adopted at CH. We had 'Tilley' (Sarah Tilley, 8s), whom I never remember calling Sarah - or 'Aggie' for Magdalen Mothersole (surely she reverted to Magdalen!) and there was a 'Tiggy' (was that Shelagh somebody?). Did people hang onto the names subsequently? Did you keep 'Munch'?
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Re: Sue Bowles
And why 'Munch' anyway?
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Re: Sue Bowles
I loved the name Magdalen Mothersole! Unique!
I'd feel difficulty called Susan Parkin "Sue". It just wouldn't... be appropriate!
I was called Munch, I suppose, because I was the school fatty, never to be taken seriously, always a "fun" personality, and was quickly given a comedy name.
I notice it on the Forum too. If I get annoyed over something (i e sejintenej response when I felt exasperated over NEILL's constant gender jokes ) it's somehow not OK. I've got to stay Munch, happy and funny.
Once given a nickname...
I'd feel difficulty called Susan Parkin "Sue". It just wouldn't... be appropriate!
I was called Munch, I suppose, because I was the school fatty, never to be taken seriously, always a "fun" personality, and was quickly given a comedy name.
I notice it on the Forum too. If I get annoyed over something (i e sejintenej response when I felt exasperated over NEILL's constant gender jokes ) it's somehow not OK. I've got to stay Munch, happy and funny.
Once given a nickname...
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
Re: Sue Bowles
Tiggy was Mary Lyon in 1s.
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Re: Sue Bowles
I always thought Munch came from Marsh!
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Re: Sue Bowles
The cut off seemed to be round about Christmas, not September, but quite a few people were even younger - in our year I know Trish Buddle was the youngest with a birthday in early May, but Eileen Downing wasn't much older than Trish. My birthday is mid august and until I went to Hertford I was always the youngest in my class - there I was about the middle.englishangel wrote:Perhaps she was young for her year then.
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