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sejintenej wrote:[They took a 50kg boar one Sunday and the next Saturday took 5 smaller boar off the hill. Keeps them in meat for much of the year. There are also largeish (well, shoulder height) deer but they don't often get any.

These are male wild pigs? Don't they absolutely reek and taste of boar taint?

I have eaten wild pig in New Zealand. Well, feral pig, and only ever females or immature males - much nicer than farmed pig imo.

[quote="Angela WoodfordDR West! Yes, her mindset had atrophied some decades before. One of the more difficult aspects of our Hertford education was the division of each year at the L1V stage into A & B streams. Thanks to DR, this initial sorting categorised each girl for the next 7 years. As I spoke to her for the last time, she told me I "would make a good shopgirl". Advice, support, cultivation of individual skills, inspiration - not! Things must be so different now. Oh yes - I remember her St Paul obsession too![/quote]


Hi Angela

Her parting words of wisdom to me were that, because I was leaving CH at the end of UV, I would never amount to anything. I wanted to scrawl 'Bollocks' (hmmm, guess that will get edited out by the rude word filter - spherical objects contained within a male's scrotum should get by) across my A Level results and post it to her, but Mum persuaded me otherwise.

Did reams of loo paper get wrapped around the trees surrounding the Square one night, or are my memories getting confused with my dreams?

icomefromalanddownunder wrote: I wanted to scrawl 'Bollocks' (hmmm, guess that will get edited out by the rude word filter - spherical objects contained within a male's scrotum should get by)

Surely a nice sensitive Hertford lady would have preferred to embroider the word, rather than scrawl it somewhere!

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:

sejintenej wrote:[They took a 50kg boar one Sunday and the next Saturday took 5 smaller boar off the hill. Keeps them in meat for much of the year. There are also largeish (well, shoulder height) deer but they don't often get any.

These are male wild pigs? Don't they absolutely reek and taste of boar taint?

No; a "different" taste which is somewhat stronger than pork but certainly not smelly or otherwise unpleasant. Whilst we marinaded ours in red wine and herbs I have had it simply roasted. the fat is different and unseen and untasted.

I have eaten wild pig in New Zealand. Well, feral pig, and only ever females or immature males - much nicer than farmed pig imo.

Apparently pigs allowed to go feral revert very quickly to wild boar.

Richard Ruck wrote:

icomefromalanddownunder wrote: I wanted to scrawl 'Bollocks' (hmmm, guess that will get edited out by the rude word filter - spherical objects contained within a male's scrotum should get by)

Surely a nice sensitive Hertford lady would have preferred to embroider the word, rather than scrawl it somewhere!

Absolutely! But, unfortunately, I was a failure at needlework - not helped by being called a Guttersnipe by our Needlework Mistress when I licked the end of a piece of thread to facilitate sticking it through the eye of a needle.

What the hell is wrong with licking the end of a thread?

soc wrote:What the hell is wrong with licking the end of a thread?

Dunno.

Maybe unhygienic? Maybe just an excuse to criticise?

My Mum always told me off for biting cotton thread rather than using scissors, because I would wear a groove in my teeth. Right Ma.

Except, I do have a groove in one incisor - the very tooth that I use to bite through thread .

Which leads me on to the fact that I enjoyed needlework at primary school, and only came to be ashamed of my ability and to fear the reactions to my efforts once I was at CH.

I keep hoping that some of the Hertford staff will post to the 'People You Would Like To Apologise To' thread, as I want to believe that they truly thought that their treatment of us was the best and most effective way to bring out the best in us, and it wasn't merely that they enjoyed the power and control.

Caroline!

I really, really do want the mistresses that reduced me to feelings of anxiety and inadequacy (to put it very mildly) to apologise, or at least rationalise this treatment in the past. But I'm sure it's too late. A CH mag arrived yesterday which told me that DR is 95. Or might she still repent?

(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)

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

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.

Munch

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:

Richard Ruck wrote:

icomefromalanddownunder wrote: I wanted to scrawl 'Bollocks' (hmmm, guess that will get edited out by the rude word filter - spherical objects contained within a male's scrotum should get by)

Surely a nice sensitive Hertford lady would have preferred to embroider the word, rather than scrawl it somewhere!

Absolutely! But, unfortunately, I was a failure at needlework - not helped by being called a Guttersnipe by our Needlework Mistress when I licked the end of a piece of thread to facilitate sticking it through the eye of a needle.

I mentioned this on another thread, because you posted it on Friends Reunited. I also remember thew occasion. As to what you were 'supposed' to do, lick your finger and thumb and pass the thread between them, we just cut out the middle digits if you like.

As for the needle, if it was a a little difficult to pass through the fabric you were supposed to lubricate it, in the absence of WD40 it was suggested we pass it through our hair!!!!


I think this belongs on the 'Dodgy hygiene' thread.

What's a thread ??

What's a needle ??

I seem to remember Jan mentioning them many years ago.

You should be ashamed of yourself, grandfather, father and sone can all sew on a button.

We won't mention husband, though he can iron a mean shirt, even if he does forget to take out the collar stiffeners first, so they melt.

Its lovely to see the little fish rise to JR's bait!

I bet he can sew, knit and iron, though I do believe I can iron a shirt better (but also slower) than just about anybody in the whole wide world

are you suggesting I am a sardien?

or even a sardine?

I was not suggesting that you were a Sardinian

I just thought it would not be very kind to say that a big fish rose to JR's bait

It looks to me that you are pretty slender from your picture too

I won't say slender AND pretty as we have recently realised that any kind of flirting upsets some people on the forum