Seriously Non-PC Terminology at CH

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:50 am

Jude wrote:However, that is to say, one does not shout it all from the rooftops!

This a sort of a rooftop, Jude

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:15 am

Virtually - yes..... But where is your main verb???

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:25 am

Rory wrote:Virtually - yes..... But where is your main verb???

seems to have slipped off the slates (followed this time by its good friend, the subject)

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:04 pm

Jude wrote:I decided that as I left CH thinking I could get pregnant by sitting on a dustbin, that I would ensure that my offspring would know all the facts.... even so dear son had a scary moment for 7 months, I hope that my daughter is well prepared for all and eny eventually (she tells me she is... so I guess it is so!)..

Anything to do with bodily functions at CH was strained to say the least - I thought I was dying when I had my 1st period... and Miss Gravett certainly worked out girls monthly cycles fast - she would refer girls to Sister in the Infirmary with a note if they had pleaded the monthly too often to avoid swimming!

no flies on her!

No enough cod-liver oil and syrup of figs, then !!

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:59 pm

Jude wrote:Miss Gravett certainly worked out girls monthly cycles fast - she would refer girls to Sister in the Infirmary with a note if they had pleaded the monthly too often to avoid swimming!

no flies on her!

She HATED girls getting off swimming by using that excuse

I can still remember her standard reply and that look she would give you

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:09 pm

Vonny wrote:
Jude wrote:Miss Gravett certainly worked out girls monthly cycles fast - she would refer girls to Sister in the Infirmary with a note if they had pleaded the monthly too often to avoid swimming!

no flies on her!

She HATED girls getting off swimming by using that excuse I can still remember her standard reply and that look she would give you

Well she was pretty dedicated to her job of making us "gals" able to swim, and to use the facility - and we did only get it for one term out of 4! The other terms it was drained and covered with badminton courts and all other gymnastic horros ( those that weren't in the dungeon of horrors next door) I have never been able to climb a rope - and so far it has not hindered my life 1 iota!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:16 pm

When I was there, Judy Furnival and Gaye (Rosemary) who seems to have disappeared again were the only ones who COULD climb a rope.

Most females don't have sufficient upper body strength.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:41 pm

Most of us could climb the ropes - I wasn't very good at it but we all had to do it. Interested to read the swimming pool was covered in other terms - not in my time as far as I remember. It was pretty tiny wasn't it?

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:56 pm

I got my life saver's bage in there!! mind you I had to swim 50 lenths clothed, another 50 lengthes unclothed, haul self out and then do the "propper" jump in to save the drowning girl (who I am certain to this day was told by Miss G to put up a fight!!) swim with her to the deep end (she was nearly always the wrong side of that huge plank Miss G walked over the pool on) and then get out without letting drowning girl drown and heave her out correctly, put her in recovery position and wait for the well done or the uh uh!!

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:27 pm

Katharine wrote:Interested to read the swimming pool was covered in other terms - not in my time as far as I remember. It was pretty tiny wasn't it?

The pool was only in use for the summer term and autumn terms. Winter and spring terms it was boarded over as Jude said.
I could never climb a rope either. The one real memory I have of the gym next to the swimming pool was climbing the bars in my first or second term next to a girl who slipped and broke her leg. Can still hear it to this day.
And who remembers those awful towelling gym suits we had to wear?

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:58 pm

Vonny wrote:And who remembers those awful towelling gym suits we had to wear?

We didn't have any towling gym suits - sounds interesting - we had the dreadfully embarrassing "Blues" and a yellow airtex top, school house socks, and plimsoles.....

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:03 pm

Jude wrote:
Vonny wrote:And who remembers those awful towelling gym suits we had to wear?
We didn't have any towling gym suits - sounds interesting - we had the dreadfully embarrassing "Blues" and a yellow airtex top, school house socks, and plimsoles.....

I suppose they were jumpsuits - they had no legs to them, short sleeves and a zip up the front - they were gorgeous! I'm surprised you didn't have them being you were there only a couple of years before me. We had blues & airtexes as well (not yellow though - I think they were blue).

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:05 pm

nope - we didn't have jumpsuits - sounds cozy though!!

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:08 pm

Jude wrote:sounds cozy though!!

Not the word I'd use

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:12 pm

were you allowed your own pj's???? (see dodgy hygiene practices!)