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- Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:14 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: HERTFORD PIC #2
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14850
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:27 pm
- Forum: The CH Old Blues' Association - Discussion
- Topic: Young Old Blues Event on 1st Feb 2006!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9633
Re: Young Old Blues Event on 1st Feb!
Obviously we must be Ancient, but still got a long way to go before we match our RR & A Foundation!Vonny wrote:So am I officially an old old blue? What do you class those who are 50+?Great Plum wrote:AKAP - I think a 'young Old blue' includes those up to 30...
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Word of the day
- Replies: 679
- Views: 110326
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Word of the day
- Replies: 679
- Views: 110326
Some years ago my son gave me a desk agenda called forgotten English, with a different word for each day. EG, Jan 24, CLOCK FACES A favourite name for the small circles of ice formed upon a pool when it begins to freeze over. (Frances Taylor's Folk-Speech of South Lancashire, 1901) The one for Kath...
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:15 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Jokes, please.....
- Replies: 2390
- Views: 413339
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:13 am
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: 'Posh School' at Hertford
- Replies: 150
- Views: 39169
There is a theory that girls do better at an all girls school, whereas boys do better in a mixed environment. This is of course an impossibility to achieve for everyone! Yes, I think we were confident young ladies about many things - but we really did lack contact with boys which made for some probl...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:40 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: School Carmen and other songs....
- Replies: 135
- Views: 38629
I loved the singing at CH and honestly find it hard to imagine that it could be possible to FORGET the tune to Carmen or the Foundation Hymn. I remember them all ( Hymns Ancient and Modern wasn't it ? ) including alto parts and descants . I also have the English translation to the whole of Carmen t...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:07 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: School Carmen and other songs....
- Replies: 135
- Views: 38629
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Prestigious Visitors!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8005
When I was there we had James Blades a percussionist, I believe he mentored Evelyn Glennie, and it was actually him (a small man) who banged the gong on the Rank film titles. He was great he made music on all sorts of things, not just percussion but garden hoses and funnels and things. There was so...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Sickle cell anemia
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3788
I first came across sickle cell anaemia when some of my pupils suffered it, I was a VSO teaching in Northern Ghana. It gave some sort of protection against malaria, can't remember the details. In Sarawak I came across another similar disease thalassemia, the son of friends of us needed the monthly b...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:40 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: School Carmen and other songs....
- Replies: 135
- Views: 38629
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:21 am
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: School Carmen and other songs....
- Replies: 135
- Views: 38629
Re: bathrooms and songs.......
Do you remember the other "Main School Hymn"????? The Churche's one Foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the Word; From Heav'n He came and sought her To be his Holy bride; with his hown blood he bought her, and for her life he died.. Tune S.S. Wesley w...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:13 am
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Hot breakfasts
- Replies: 70
- Views: 20254
- Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:24 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: School Carmen and other songs....
- Replies: 135
- Views: 38629
- Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:03 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: DR
- Replies: 72
- Views: 22197
Some of these generosities come out in the book Half to Remember. I think she was a rather repressed person herself. There is no sign of any love interest in the book, perhaps there was something missing in her life. She was born in 1912 to an obviously well off family, but she does not remember eve...