Punishment Record - How Bad Were You?

[Mrs C.]

though I do believe I can iron a shirt better (but also slower) than just about anybody in the whole wide world

I`d be willing to put you to the test! I HATE ironing shirts (well, ironing anything really!!)

[huntertitus]

I love ironing

Sometimes on a Sunday morn I wake up, perhaps with a grade 1 hangover, and if a shower and a s*** and a shave don't work, I put the family's socks together and then iron a few shirts with the soothing tones of Radio 4 on

No better cure

Tell you what though

I HATE ironing a cheap and nasty shirt

The posher type of shirt seems to flatten itself automatically as the iron approaches

Now i'm sounding like a train spotter

[UserRequestedRemoval]

Was that the 21:53 from King's Cross I heard just then?

[huntertitus]

As your post was made at just after 2100 hrs it seems you can hear, if not see, into the future!

[icomefromalanddownunder]

(Caroline and I attended the same primary school. It was absolutely marvellous. I began at CH full of confidence and optimism. I'd love to find some Richard Atkins friends, Caroline)

We were so privileged at Richard Atkins - I thought that all London primary schools offered what we were given in the way of art and music, but maybe we were just lucky to have a bunch of wonderful staff who came together at one time?


Actually yes! I do remember loo paper festooning the trees in the Square! But who did it?


Hmmmm, maybe 8s? Alex or Liz might remember.



On the theme of Punishment, The Study used to make me clean all the 2nd pairs of shoes for the House. It's been a useful skill. I can buff my killer heels to a fabulous shine. The other daily in-House punishment for me was cleaning all the baths and basins. This also has been useful - but I'd recommend a change from Gumption. That aromatic paste was no good.


Gumption! I remember it taking longer to get rid of the residual paste than it did to get the dirt off. And the fumes..........

Do you remember that Pot always used the same bath cubicle after we gerrrls were in bed, and that one night someone placed a borrowed skeletal arm from the Bio Lab behind the bath, with the hand on one of the taps?

This forum has been so good for me, in that I am remembering the 'good' times as well as the bad, and realising that I wasn't alone in my misery, and not, therefore, odd.

Will scan photos some time this week, and send you a personal message about Richard Atkins - Mervion, Carol Bright and Naheed meet up in London.

Oh - love to Siobhan and Jean. How are they?

Love

Caroline

[englishangel]

My husband irons while watching football. This means that during World Cups and such like it all gets done really quickly. It has all piled up again now though.

I do agree with HT about expensive shirts. Husband has taken to buying them from Turnbull and Asser and Austin Reed since his neck hit 16 1/2 and they take about half the time to iron and look better when you have done than even than an expensive onefrom M&S .

[Angela Woodford]

Thinking back to "how bad I was" I'm remembering that the Hertford staff had only one official means of punishing us - the verbal reports of Order and Disorder. Rather worse was sarcasm and frank personal opinion - depending on the member of staff. I wouldn't have minded talking about my lack of motivation concentration and ability with the mistress concerned, on an individual basis, but inevitably these frank opinions were expressed as I stood at my desk before the whole class.

Punishment in House was of a different kind, and administered by daily attendance to 'The Study'. I've mentioned my proficiency at shoe and bath cleaning, but have never forgotten the ordeal of clinging on to the door knob behind my back as these Sixth Formers told me just what they thought of me. I've never forgotten the names of my tormentors. Indeed I was noisy, boisterous and forgetful at 12 years old. But this was not the way to correct me. My behaviour became worse as a result. I learned to put my mind elsewhere in order not to lose face by crying. I vowed that I would never subject a child to this treatment when I was an occupant in the Study, and I hope I never did cause distress.

[blondie95]

My dad does his and mums ironing on a wednesday afternoon when he doesn't teach and can do it while watching a film-so if he watches lord of the rings we know there is a lot of ironing.

I dont mind doing it though i dont particualrly enjoy the bf shirts-such akward things

[huntertitus]

There is a correct way to iron shirts

First you do the yoke, then the collar, next the sleeves which are the hardest part, and finally the buttonside, round the back ending at the buttonhole side. I HATE ironing long sleeve T shirts for if you get the front flat the back will always have a crease ironed in. The art of ironing seems to be the flattening of the garment prior to the ironing of it

What I always wanted to master, but never did, was the sewing machine. The setting of the tension was always beyond me. I don't know why.

[UserRequestedRemoval]

I only tried a sewing machine once and just before I did it, I was told a story about how someone sewed his finger to the garment. Well that was it, I was useless, there was no way my fingers were going anywhere near that needle

[icomefromalanddownunder]

Thinking back to "how bad I was" I'm remembering that the Hertford staff had only one official means of punishing us - the verbal reports of Order and Disorder.

Hi Munch

You overlooked the ultimate - Conduct Report. I have posted previously about how my parents received a letter explaining that their delinquent daughter had received one, and Mum asked whether I had forgotten to hand up my homework or something.

[Angela Woodford]

Caroline!

I don't remember you getting a Conduct? I love to think that your mother thought it was some minor sin of omission...

Siobhan is well - we spoke on the phone recently, and I'm just about to call her again. I'm visiting Jean on Tuesday. I'm in charge of getting compost to her for the containers in her flat.

I do believe that somewhere I've got loads of photos of Richard Atkins events. I'll try to find them! My times at Richard Atkins were the happiest days of my life. Would I be right in thinking you lived in New Park Road?

It's really lovely to talk to you again!

Munch - Mwah! Mwah!

[blondie95]

There is a correct way to iron shirts

First you do the yoke, then the collar, next the sleeves which are the hardest part, and finally the buttonside, round the back ending at the buttonhole side. I HATE ironing long sleeve T shirts for if you get the front flat the back will always have a crease ironed in. The art of ironing seems to be the flattening of the garment prior to the ironing of it

What I always wanted to master, but never did, was the sewing machine. The setting of the tension was always beyond me. I don't know why.

im about to attempt the shirts-i will try your way but what is a yoke?

[englishangel]

the yoke is the double bit across the back of the shoulders.

Blondie, what ARE you doing ironing bf's shirts?

I have a thing that looks like a little ironing board for ironing shirtsleeves. YOu tuck it inside and can iron them without a crease.

Alternatively take them to the laundry, about £1.10 a throw.

[blondie95]

Part of the whole how to live together without falling out over who does what. etc. i do the ironing and he does the cat litter and cleaning of bathrooms-im not very good at it!

I have managed to compromise in such away i have avoided doing all matters of housework i dont like!