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Vonny wrote:
Katharine wrote:
Vonny wrote:Did you not have a photo of the whole school taken every few years?
I have absolutely no recollection of such a thing happening during my time.
I was at Hertford from 1981-1985 and we only had the one photo of the entire school & staff in that time.
I think the one I posted was taken becasue DR was retiring.

And it looks as if one was taken when the girls left Hertford.

Pretty pathetic, and cheap.

My kids school photos cost a fortune though.

Have just forked out £38 for two whole school ones, and they were just in a box. It would have been another £30 to have them in frames.
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Katharine wrote:
huntertitus wrote:Where is the postings about slang?

Take a double detention for straying off the subject.
Guilty as charged .... but one of the things I love about this forum is that you never know what you will find on any thread!!!

Back to CH did you have to learn psalms as a punishment at Horsham, you could tell how seriously DR took your demeanour by which psalm you got. I once got 117 only 2 verses!!!! Can't remember what I had done.
No psalm learning - that would have been fun - when I was a little boy the teacher hit you with a shoe, and later on when you were big enough they used a stick. Sometimes the stick broke to the irritation of the punisher.

Small mistakes were punished with having a piece ofchalk thrown hard at your head, being made to run a farm loop or worse an Itchingfield loop, and there were some teachers who made you write essays on behaviour - one I got was 200 lines on "Punctuality and Punctiliousness"
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I see this thread has been 'rejuvinated' and I can't be bothered to plough through all 13 pages, but don't forget the dreaded 'SH@G-SPOTS' for the horrible curse of acne.

It was said the the appearance of a fresh red spot indicated a recent sexual encounter. HOWEVER, due to the lack of female company, it was always assumed that the owner of the skin eruption had enjoyed a secret five-finger shuffle.

(I wonder if JT will deem this post fit for editing ?)
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J.R. wrote:I see this thread has been 'rejuvinated' and I can't be bothered to plough through all 13 pages, but don't forget the dreaded 'SH@G-SPOTS' for the horrible curse of acne.

It was said the the appearance of a fresh red spot indicated a recent sexual encounter. HOWEVER, due to the lack of female company, it was always assumed that the owner of the skin eruption had enjoyed a secret five-finger shuffle.

(I wonder if JT will deem this post fit for editing ?)
and "scrot rot" (a bit like foot rot but not on your feet).

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J.R. wrote:I see this thread has been 'rejuvinated' and I can't be bothered to plough through all 13 pages, but don't forget the dreaded 'SH@G-SPOTS' for the horrible curse of acne.

It was said the the appearance of a fresh red spot indicated a recent sexual encounter. HOWEVER, due to the lack of female company, it was always assumed that the owner of the skin eruption had enjoyed a secret five-finger shuffle.

(I wonder if JT will deem this post fit for editing ?)
As I don't understand I cannot see why it should be edited.

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englishangel wrote:
J.R. wrote:I see this thread has been 'rejuvinated' and I can't be bothered to plough through all 13 pages, but don't forget the dreaded 'SH@G-SPOTS' for the horrible curse of acne.

It was said the the appearance of a fresh red spot indicated a recent sexual encounter. HOWEVER, due to the lack of female company, it was always assumed that the owner of the skin eruption had enjoyed a secret five-finger shuffle.

(I wonder if JT will deem this post fit for editing ?)
As I don't understand I cannot see why it should be edited.

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That's all right, then Mary !! Nothing like leading a sheltered life !!

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J.R. wrote:That's all right, then Mary !! Nothing like leading a sheltered life !!
If you have learnt nothing else from this forum, JR it must be that we were sheltered - at least in theory and while we were behind the high walls.

In my Senior VI term I went to Ireland for a cousin's wedding. This entailed catching a sleeper train from Paddington at about midnight. DR drove me there, as I was the only S VI who wasn't a Londoner. She didn't like to think what might have happened to me en route and she was in loco parentis. I think my parents were very grateful, I was 18 at the time.
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How embarrassing!

I went to France (on my own) between Lower and Upper Sixth.

I wonder what she would have made of that.
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englishangel wrote:Considering the number of guys posting on the 'Hertford' threads, perhaps you could cut us a little slack.
Whatever next???
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Don't tell me, that is a sailing term?
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Katharine wrote:
J.R. wrote:That's all right, then Mary !! Nothing like leading a sheltered life !!
If you have learnt nothing else from this forum, JR it must be that we were sheltered - at least in theory and while we were behind the high walls.

In my Senior VI term I went to Ireland for a cousin's wedding. This entailed catching a sleeper train from Paddington at about midnight. DR drove me there, as I was the only S VI who wasn't a Londoner. She didn't like to think what might have happened to me en route and she was in loco parentis. I think my parents were very grateful, I was 18 at the time.
Is that anything like a Ford Fiesta ??
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englishangel wrote: How embarrassing!
Wot ? The new photograph ??

I think I preferred the stockings !
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J.R. wrote:
Katharine wrote:
J.R. wrote:That's all right, then Mary !! Nothing like leading a sheltered life !!
If you have learnt nothing else from this forum, JR it must be that we were sheltered - at least in theory and while we were behind the high walls.

In my Senior VI term I went to Ireland for a cousin's wedding. This entailed catching a sleeper train from Paddington at about midnight. DR drove me there, as I was the only S VI who wasn't a Londoner. She didn't like to think what might have happened to me en route and she was in loco parentis. I think my parents were very grateful, I was 18 at the time.
Is that anything like a Ford Fiesta ??
No it is more like a mad mother.
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englishangel wrote:
J.R. wrote:
Katharine wrote: If you have learnt nothing else from this forum, JR it must be that we were sheltered - at least in theory and while we were behind the high walls.

In my Senior VI term I went to Ireland for a cousin's wedding. This entailed catching a sleeper train from Paddington at about midnight. DR drove me there, as I was the only S VI who wasn't a Londoner. She didn't like to think what might have happened to me en route and she was in loco parentis. I think my parents were very grateful, I was 18 at the time.
Is that anything like a Ford Fiesta ??
No it is more like a mad mother.
Mary, can you imagine just how awful it would have been to have had her as your mother? Or would she have been transformed by the experience?
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I often wonder that.

I don't know what you found as she was driving you to Paddington.

I found that on the couple of times she took us out on Long Saturday she was quite human.

I assume she is still alive in the nursing home near Seaford.
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