Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:09 am
No way!?
Wasnt she about 100 years old when we were there???
Wasnt she about 100 years old when we were there???
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Don't you mean 'Oy vay'???Rory wrote:No way!?
Wasnt she about 100 years old when we were there???
I think he still had that car when I was in Barnes B ('82). He once drove behind me a steeplechase and sped up to make me run faster - it didn't work as I sat down, got a lift back to the house though. I seem to remember the car coming to a demise during the storm of 87 when one of the avenue trees made a pancake out of it.Rory wrote:Torkington - I remember his beard - a major disaster - and his car???? one of those old SAAB's that no-one (except him) would ever buy.
He did that in my day too, though it had the opposite effect as everyone left.Rory wrote: And the day he showed the boys in Barnes B how to shower naked.....The whole house came down to check him out.
I agree on it being "shake a leg"Rory wrote:I thought he'd say "shake a leg".
I will NEVER forget when the Tork walked into chapel with the new beard. It was one of those moments when someone makes a sudden explosion of air from the mouth, a sort of aural fart, then we got those hysterics - the more you try to stop laughing the more you laugh - we were CRYING with silent laughter, tears rolling down our cheeks - it was agony.Rory wrote:Then - Torkington - I remember his beard - a major disaster
Matrons - whatever happened to Mrs Van Alphen ?????????????????
Oral, surely.....huntertitus wrote:....a sort of aural fart, ....
You really haven't grown up, have you.Richard Ruck wrote:Oral, surely.....huntertitus wrote:....a sort of aural fart, ....
Have you ever tried blowing off through an ear? A bit tricky....
Yours pedantically,
Dick
Of course not......huntertitus wrote: You really haven't grown up, have you.
Funny you should say that as I seem to recall that for some reason we thought on Matron Van A as Jewish.Richard Ruck wrote:Don't you mean 'Oy vay'???Rory wrote:No way!?
Wasnt she about 100 years old when we were there???
I suppose with that name she must have been Dutch, and didn't the Nazis over-run that country early on in the war - there must have been some pretty brutal things going on at that time and she would have been a very young woman or girl at the time - I wonder if she is still alive - and I wonder if there's a site somewhere where you can see which people at CH during a particular time are still alive?Richard Ruck wrote:Roger Martin once mentioned to us that Vanny had had a bit of a hard time during the Second World Unpleasantness (he didn't go into detail).
She was, as you say, very kind when you were ill or injured.
But it would be quite hard for us to unlist ourselves at the appropriate time, I fear.huntertitus wrote:I wonder if there's a site somewhere where you can see which people at CH during a particular time are still alive?
She was very kind indeed, and I remember her telling me that she was Dutch. However - most illnesses could be cured with Bradasol (sp?) or a dab of nivea, I seem to remember!Richard Ruck wrote:She was, as you say, very kind when you were ill or injured.