Blimey Alex vS ...I'm concerned about your memory !Alex vS wrote:I've just worked out what the BA's and GA's of the previous posting are all about - Black Aprons and Green Aprons - instead of those blue overalls that everyone else wore to dinner. Forgotten all about them!
You can't remember "hot breakfasts" ( we ate breakfast in the dining hall except on Sunday 1965-72), can't remember Green and Black Aprons and can't remember the correct name for " Pinnies" (blue pinafores)...they were NEVER called "overalls" when I was there.
In a way I understand the memory loss. I feel that, by the time you were there, the big, wide ,real world was beginning to encroach on the Hertford microcosm of existence and these small details of daily life no longer held the same significance. Their memories were thus not burnt indelibly into the very fabric of your consciousness forever and ever, Amen.
In the sixties we were still quite cut off from real life.All that existed for me was that strange unquestionable, timetabled world with it's rules and uniforms....different hats ,different knickers, deadlines,rewards,punishments, lots of marching around ,gossip,scandal, more than a tinge of Dickensian harshness and something of Jane Eyre, feeling alienated...and ticking off the days desperately until the last day of term and the hols.