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There must be Old Girls who have gone on to play a sport with passion and excellence, but I've never met any! Which is strange, because I'm sure that many of us may have achieved a reasonable standard. Oops! :oops: :oops: :oops: Of course! That fabulous HOGoF over there in the USofA, Elizabeth Roe,...

My heart bled in sympathy at the thought of you in tears over being left out of the rounders team... Rounders! Never, never in my entire school career did I suceed in hitting the ball with the bat. It seemed impossible! I resigned myself to being caught out by "the triangle" at the first p...

That is, once Mrs Hislop left at the end of our first year; she always Had It In For Me as a result of a mix-up with a floating lesson, as reported elsewhere on this forum... One of my teaching jobs was at a small prep school and I actually had to teach (well, supervise) hockey and netball! I alway...

[quote="Mid A 15I wondered about your progress with this Angela.Congratulations on sticking with it and completing it! :wine:[/quote] That's nice of you, Andy; thank you! Do you have Facebook? I have been posting embarassing photos of my progress... the incident with the Rottweiler in the woods...

I've been scanning the post-Olympic articles in the papers this morning, and have been struck by so much response from readers to whom sport was absolute hell. Horrible accounts of thuggish behaviour, glasses of the incompetent being smashed by sports bullies, sheer misery of being the last to be se...

Double Science with Betty Jukes. Are you SURE, Angela? I thought she was focussed on domestic science which - all things considered - was most definitely not 'scientific' in the itional sense . Of course I'm sure! She taught the basic scientific principles to us well, and made her lessons very inte...

Third Form, Saturday mornings before it was reorganised as a prep only morning. Science! Double Science with Miss Jukes. I loved it! I managed to bag a front row desk. The Bunsen Burner with the "luminous and non-luminous" flame. The time Alison Stilliard's blonde French bunches caught fir...

I've got a Sunday memory... a pudding of a tinned-gooseberry pie, with a pastry that had scorched spots on the underside. Glopped-on custard from the tin jug.

It's just come back to me... the flavour of that pie!

You're quite right, David. Hmmm.

And no running across it! Puffing and panting up between the Houses, panicking, all of a doo-dah, braking on my heels like the Road Runner to w-a-l-k across the Square, back to a mad run the other side, accelerating across the Playground... even if there was wasn't any one else in sight! Was this me...

I was always baffled by the expression, as I knew the Square only as a rectangle of pinkish tarmac...

And I was even more baffled by having to do the gravel-crunching! I never knew why we should have to kill time just walking up and down.

Incidentally, do we have any dentists in this Web-community? I ask because I've always wondered whether red-haired people's teeth are naturally less durable than the teeth of persons with non-red hair. I can remember a surgical nursing legend that red headed patients would be more liable to bleed p...

Nearer and nearer draws the time The time that that shall surely be... I apologise to all HOGoFs, to whom I have emitted an initial shriek. But I am wondering if any other Old Blues are reading the First Lesson in Church on Sunday 22 July? It is a passage from the Song of Solomon. It is chapter 3, ...

It all sounds so much better to me! Yes, JR, definitely progress!

But no change in the employment of weird Housemistresses with substance abuse and various other problems....

are the HOGOFs still active on facebook? But of course! Are we not all sisters? :D I'm amazed at the relaxed and much happier appearance of the last wave of Hertford girls. The things they got up to! Blimey! A "Food Committee!" I enjoy their reminiscences very much. I once began a thread ...