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I went right off the roast potatoes after the Spudbashing experience in the bowels of the kitchen. That was the only time I had gone into the depths of the gormenghastic place - there were huge vats of slimy grey potatoes, riddled with eyes and sprouts and quite revolting!!

I remember the tartan blouses but I still can't sort out the plastic sacks. They were blue tunics and we wore a blouse underneath - they were 100% synthetic. It's not really that surprising - I've never been very interested in clothes and really, our uniforms were not something that any of us would...

[quote="Kim2s70-77" Kim, was it you who wrote "sausages" or some such word in every sentence in physics prep because rumour had it that the teacher never bothered much about what we wrote? I seem to remember that rumour did not lie on this occasion. I don't remember that one, al...

The festival of carols from Kings college on Christmas Eve always takes me back to the CH festival. I thought of a distinct (unpleasant) smell that is very evocative too. There was a sickly/ vaguely rotting smell of those long tablecloths when they were taken out of the drawstring bags, especially a...

Just had a couple of random and unrelated thoughts from the old days..... When we were allowed to go into town to go shopping, there was always the confusion and lack of clear understanding, by townspeople, of exactly what kind of institution we were. I know the staff of Woolworth's seemed to think ...

Nah............my lips are sealed. Only Miss Tucker has the power to unlock them!!

Euterpe13 wrote: Leonard Cohen is the soundtrack to my teens, " Susanne" in particular, .

That was the theme of our study in 76-77, if I remember correctly! Particularly when we were a little blue and wanting to feel even more depressed!!

I think Lynn's "plastic sacks" must have been the Sunday tunic (with the striped or polka dotted shirt - and wasn't it tartan in the Winter?) - as we too had the navy skirt/ blue flannelish shirt and navy and gold tie. VERY ugly!! I've never been a snappy dresser (still look like I'm at CH...

Kim2s70-77 wrote:Miss G-W might as well have been in her 50s for all I knew!

Which, of course, is getting younger and younger all the time........................

Jo - I can SO relate to a lot of your comments! I had no clue that teachers were real people!! I was also desperate for attention and had Miss G-W's walk down to a fault - for which I could get many {cruel} laughs. That was why I was feeling rather guilty when I tried to remember who she was! Lampoo...

I don't remember doing too much against the 'rules' - although every tiny thing we did seemed SO daring and adventurous. In the first form, a group of us climbed out of the bathroom window onto the roof to retrieve some 'power balls' (those marble-sized rubber balls that bounced phenomenally) in the...

I bet not too many people can say that!!

Isn't it funny how age is meaningless to a young person? I had no more idea of Miss Griffith-William's age than I did Betty Juke's! I think that, for me as a youngster, the position of authority totally outweighed any objectivity. They were all teachers - with little regard to any real life they may...

We definitely had cod in white sauce with greyish lumpy mashed potatoes - which has to be the most anemic unappetizing meal of all time!! Does anyone remember the dessert "Dead Man's Legs"?? It was a long roll of pastry with jam in the middle rolled a la swiss rolls - usually 3 long 'sausa...

Church Times? Was Mr Upton ordained? . I think so! We used to call him "The Reverend Dante Gabriella Socrates Upton" - don't remember who started that one. OK - now I've seen the Obit. I remember that he was known as Rev. D.G.S. Upton - which is why we made up / guessed at the names.