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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:42 am
by Reuben
Hi Craig, I certainly remember your name! Any chance you could link an embarrassing photo of yourself? I actually have a mental image of you (a rare feat of recollection for me) but given that I am now capable of mistaking someone for their stepchild the probability of error remains high...
Re. David "Hemel" Hempstead and Mr Robinson, I have a horrible suspicion they are younger there than we are now... if that doesn't put the brevity of life into its true and ghastly perspective, what does?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:06 pm
by cstegerlewis
Check out the Middleton Photos thread - there are a few embarrassments there!
I suppose I should add a more recent one to show how much I have changed (or not
)
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:53 pm
by Vonny
cstegerlewis wrote:And doesn't Mr. (forgotten his name) Robinson look v. young
He does doesn't he
That must have been a year or so before he married Miss (Catherine?) Hartnett.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:35 pm
by Reuben
Good god, so he did! I'd quite forgotten...
Christ, it's all starting to come back since joining here. That Thorn B house photo was full of strangers when I first saw it, I didn't even recognise myself at first. Now I can remember almost everyone... the same goes for other house photos from the same era, e.g. this chap:
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:55 pm
by cstegerlewis
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:12 pm
by Vonny
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:28 am
by Reuben
No need to blush Craig, it's actually quite a good photo! At least there was clearly some life in you... whereas *I* look as if I'm unused to direct sunlight. It's almost as if I was spending 12 hours a day in the computer room or something...
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:43 am
by cj
Reuben wrote:
Ha, ha, ha!!!
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 11:48 am
by cstegerlewis
Reuben wrote:It's almost as if I was spending 12 hours a day in the computer room or something...
I never noticed
Funny how spending any time in EJW's domain then was seen as wacky, whereas now I 'happily'
spend more than that in front of a PC every day, and I am not even a techie.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:03 pm
by Vonny
cstegerlewis wrote:Mr. (forgotten his name) Robinson
Was it Mark?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:20 am
by cstegerlewis
Vonny wrote:cstegerlewis wrote:Mr. (forgotten his name) Robinson
Was it Mark?
Spot on, he was my CDT teacher for 2 years, and memorably tried to teach the Colts 1st XV Rugby League
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:00 pm
by Vonny
cstegerlewis wrote:Vonny wrote:cstegerlewis wrote:Mr. (forgotten his name) Robinson
Was it Mark?
Spot on, he was my CDT teacher for 2 years, and memorably tried to teach the Colts 1st XV Rugby League
His sister worked at CH as well (Miss Robinson surprisingly enough
) - I
think she may have taught needlework. She lived in BaB and was assistant house mistress or something like that. She could be quite fierce! She made me walk in a straight line one Saturday night
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:55 pm
by BTaylor
Vonny wrote:His sister worked at CH as well (Miss Robinson surprisingly enough
) - I
think she may have taught needlework. She lived in BaB and was assistant house mistress or something like that. She could be quite fierce!
She made me walk in a straight line one Saturday night
I think the missing words may well be 'try to'...
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 3:13 pm
by Reuben
cstegerlewis wrote:Funny how spending any time in EJW's domain then was seen as wacky, whereas now I 'happily'
spend more than that in front of a PC every day, and I am not even a techie.
"Wacky" is certainly one of the kinder words I've heard...
Shame we didn't all become Bill Gates -style software billionaires, but I guess at least it *was* good training for the modern workforce. Since becoming a professional programmer I've been doing 8-10 hours a day at a PC for the last 10 years, with no end in sight... <sigh>
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:28 pm
by Vonny
BTaylor wrote:Vonny wrote:His sister worked at CH as well (Miss Robinson surprisingly enough
) - I
think she may have taught needlework. She lived in BaB and was assistant house mistress or something like that. She could be quite fierce!
She made me walk in a straight line one Saturday night
I think the missing words may well be 'try to'...
Well I got away with it