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Bless you, I think that's rather nice! As I've said, I believe in keeping the channels of communication open!lonelymom wrote:I'm quite the opposite. I keep looking at photos of her, and (I think this is the first, if not the second sign of madness) talking to them!huggermugger wrote:Having said that I can't look at photos of him too often!
Ladder or no ladder, you won't catch me sleeping in my boy's bed. CH sent various missives re: the importance of establishing good personal hygiene habits which I read aloud often to him but they made little impact & he still had to be dragged protesting to every (infrequent) bath & shower.lonelymom wrote:I thought of doing that, but since my daughter's bed is one which involves scaling a ladder, I thought better of it.englishangel wrote:I have just slept in her bed the last 2 nights.
I am sure that the old Horsham method of persuading such a person would help if he heard about it - the application of black shoe polish with a stiff shoebrush followed by a vigorous polishing with a marginally less stiff brush of those two globular objects which hang at the bottom of the abdomen. I don't remember a second treatment being necessary.huggermugger wrote:Ladder or no ladder, you won't catch me sleeping in my boy's bed. CH sent various missives re: the importance of establishing good personal hygiene habits which I read aloud often to him but they made little impact & he still had to be dragged protesting to every (infrequent) bath & shower.lonelymom wrote:I thought of doing that, but since my daughter's bed is one which involves scaling a ladder, I thought better of it.englishangel wrote:I have just slept in her bed the last 2 nights.
I find it difficult to go into his room, let alone sleep in his bed... but he'll be back in both at the weekend - yippee!
I am sitting here laughing my head off; it is almost impossible to type. Did you really misunderstand those things that football players kick around?huggermugger wrote:What??
I have read that message a number of times & I hope to goodness I've misunderstood it! You have got to be joking (please??) For goodness sake!
sejintenej wrote:There is, of course the problem of equality; how should the girls get treated in such circumstances?
(That is for JR to answer - if he dares!)
sejintenej wrote:I am sure that the old Horsham method of persuading such a person would help if he heard about it - the application of black shoe polish with a stiff shoebrush followed by a vigorous polishing with a marginally less stiff brush of those two globular objects which hang at the bottom of the abdomen. I don't remember a second treatment being necessary.
It was a rare action, made even more rare by the fact that most males do not like those parts handled by other males; in fact I can only remember it being done a couple of times in 9 years and I was never the victim.Angela Woodford wrote:Shoe polish to scrotum... shudder, shudder! How long did it take you to get it all off, David?
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Put it like this, if it ever did happen to my son, someone else's would have to be severed from their own abdomen. Boy's, Housemaster's or Headmaster's. I wouldn't be fussy.Angela Woodford wrote:Another horrible Horsham story, which I'm sure, huggermugger, must never happen nowadays! You musn't worry about it!
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My mind has stopped boggling but I'll keep the results of my musing to myself.icomefromalanddownunder wrote:Hmmmm, I'm not JR, but am known for my occasional feats of daring ........sejintenej wrote:There is, of course the problem of equality; how should the girls get treated in such circumstances?
(That is for JR to answer - if he dares!)
I would like to think that one of the girl's friends might tactfully raise the subject in a roundabout kind of way, and if that didn't get the message across, birthday and Christmas gifts of shower gel, deodorant, perfumed talc.
Thank you, huggermugger, I've had a mildly irritating day, and you've just brightened it.huggermugger wrote:Put it like this, if it ever did happen to my son, someone else's would have to be severed from their own abdomen. Boy's, Housemaster's or Headmaster's. I wouldn't be fussy.
Hi Amyblondie95 wrote:as leave weekend fast approaches....wil you be informaing your children about what you have learnt and shared with us lot here on this forum. (i am already envisaging the teenage mortifiactaion look that i perfected!)
You're welcome - but I was only half-joking! Or should I say half-serious...Ajarn Philip wrote:Thank you, huggermugger, I've had a mildly irritating day, and you've just brightened it.huggermugger wrote:Put it like this, if it ever did happen to my son, someone else's would have to be severed from their own abdomen. Boy's, Housemaster's or Headmaster's. I wouldn't be fussy.
I'll be there with you dancing round the severed remains. Never, in my local-comprehensive-parenthood have I heard of such awful school cruelties as those practised in the past by CH boys.huggermugger wrote:Put it like this, if it ever did happen to my son, someone else's would have to be severed from their own abdomen. Boy's, Housemaster's or Headmaster's. I wouldn't be fussy.