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Taxi is Tacsi in Welsh and Teksi in Malay, ice cream in Malay is ais krim. It's amazing how words travel around the world. Seeing Malaysian ais krim, which is perfectly understandable, reminds me of Aply Pay in Panama (Apple Pie), except that you could get Aply Pay de Manzana (Apple "apple&quo...

Mary, my elder son sounds much the same, severely dyslexic, but with a PhD in Chemistry. We thought he suffered from being exposed to 3 languages English, Welsh & Malay until we knew. Taxi is Tacsi in Welsh and Teksi in Malay, ice cream in Malay is ais krim.

"Sale" work in the autumn term, school needlework the other 2. Did you still have the sale (for charity) at Christmas? Yes, I now remember it was Sale work in Autumn term. Alternate years the stalls were organised by houses and forms. We always worked far harder for the House Sales, becau...

I lived in Ghana from 1969 for 4 years. You could not buy granulated sugar only lump. The story was that during the war they had had a very bad consignment of granulated sugar from the Congo with lots of impurities, and the whole country had turned against it. I wonder whether they have relented now...

6s seem to have had a lot of head girls. At least one while I was there. Judy Evans. !'s had the head girl my last 2 years. I can't remember any others. Which house had the head girl your last two years, Mary? The 6s girls were the only 2 in my time, Clare Roper Power in my first year. Her sister C...

We had dress shields in the Sunday blouses, tartan in the winter and blue and white striped or blue with white spots in the summer (blouses not dress shields). They were only washed at the end of the season. I was a wardrobe girl in 2's and I don't remember how often things like tunics and Sunday g...

englishangel wrote:1's the same head girl for 2 consecutive years.

Judy Evans from 6's was about 66/67 I believe.

How did she get to be head twice?

I remember Judy but can't think how far below me she was, if Alex tells me her house number I might remember who had it before her!

Whilst we are on the subject of insect bites. Not sure whether any of the other OG here wore the summer Sunday yellow dresses which were brought in for the quartercentenary; they attracted greenfly. If you were ever out in them you became covered in green spots. They had gone by the time I had star...

6s seem to have had a lot of head girls. At least one while I was there. Judy Evans. !'s had the head girl my last 2 years. I can't remember any others. Which house had the head girl your last two years, Mary? The 6s girls were the only 2 in my time, Clare Roper Power in my first year. Her sister C...

I actually read laconicum yesterday in a description of a spa complex at Center Parks; had it not been for this forum I wouldn't have known what it was. I thonk that is serendipity isn't it? Not often you get to use serendipity either is it? I feel a new thread coming on I felt that it was time to ...

Did you have CU at Horsham? We were actually warned against joining one at uni by the school chaplain before we left.

J.R. wrote:Whilst we are on the subject of insect bites.

Not sure whether any of the other OG here wore the summer Sunday yellow dresses which were brought in for the quartercentenary; they attracted greenfly. If you were ever out in them you became covered in green spots.

I actually read laconicum yesterday in a description of a spa complex at Center Parks; had it not been for this forum I wouldn't have known what it was. I thonk that is serendipity isn't it?

englishangel wrote:Also , Robertson Gift Mary Vincett 1972.

Was that the one for girls going on to nursing or similar? If so my aunt Helen Hills 193? should be there. I don't think I ever really knew what the Robertson Gift or the Craig Prize (?)were for. Grinling was academic excellence in a particular subject.

Love your story, Alex. DR probably had a good idea how Barnes Wallis would react, so you had your punishment time thinking of the letter, writing it and waiting for a reaction, but there was an end to it when his letter came. I bet you have always been careful since that things you stand on are prop...