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Don't you carry the 'magic-tablet' ?englishangel wrote:I had the migraine.
I had thrown up on the way to town, outside McDonalds, then again on the way home. the kids thought it was great.
I only get them while under stress. Haven't had one now for a long time.J.R. wrote:Don't you carry the 'magic-tablet' ?englishangel wrote:I had the migraine.
I had thrown up on the way to town, outside McDonalds, then again on the way home. the kids thought it was great.
I used to suffer migraine attacks. Started at school during 'O' Levels. My G.P. prescribed a pill I carried at all times. As long as I took one IMMEDIATELY the attack started, the actual effects were minimal.
Touch wood, (metaphorically speaking), I haven't suffered a serious attack for years.
I started getting migraines when I was at primary school - had a fair few at CH and usually ended up being sent up t'inf at Hertford. I used to be sick withthem but these days I just get the visual disturbances and then have a head ache. I've b een given a few pills over the years but none were really any use. In fact thinking about it I haven't had one since I moved house & that was back in March so I'm well over due oneJ.R. wrote:Don't you carry the 'magic-tablet' ?englishangel wrote:I had the migraine.
I had thrown up on the way to town, outside McDonalds, then again on the way home. the kids thought it was great.
I used to suffer migraine attacks. Started at school during 'O' Levels. My G.P. prescribed a pill I carried at all times. As long as I took one IMMEDIATELY the attack started, the actual effects were minimal.
Touch wood, (metaphorically speaking), I haven't suffered a serious attack for years.
Dave you are my hero,sejintenej wrote:Masses of answers:
Yes, 9 years Great Plum.
Prep A from age 9 to 11 and then Col A.
Apart from moving up from Prep we didn't change houses. However there was a competitive intake at age 11 for those who could pay but de facto there was never to my knowledge any consideration or comment about parents' ability / inability to pay within the school; we were all in the same boat.
There was one case which did raise quite a bit of ire. In those days S level was as far ahead of A level as A was to O level; ie very very hard and a near guaranteed entry to Oxbridge. However Ashton in Col A got 3 S levels as well as heaven knows how many A levels and got turned down by all the universities he applied for. He stayed on to get a further 3 S levels - unheard of. It was put down by us to his religion - and after 6 years I didn't even know he was one until this came up. He must have been 20 when he left.
Archers - haven't heard it since 1961 (and don't want to!)
Marty; not a maths lover? I failed it at O level! I eventually ended up with 3 different O level maths exams - a total con if you add each one into the sum total and put that on CVs.
Hard? These were different days. There were two (ineffective) radiators in the dorm but the windows leaked cold air like a fire hydrant so winter nights were coolish. One school sheet and one school blanket (threadbare) plus, if you could afford it, one blanket of your own.
That after having to run over to Barnes Green in the snow (I don't think we normally went as far as Billingshurst) followed by a cold shower (no hot water). Believe it or not, Housie was, for me, more comfortable than outside.
You also have to remember that communications in those days were far worse than now. If you go to many places in the US even today, international news is what happens the other side of the State line. The ignorance of things European is almost incomprehensible - like the Yank who asked me in which state Eire is situated and another senior New York executive who thought that Morocco was somewhere in the south west USA.
In our day we might find our way around an atlas but there was pretty meagre foreign news "Terrible floods. No Englishmen killed" was all you might see of 1000 killed in India.
You don't miss what you've never had.
Hendrik; if you spoke French like that down my local .....well, I wouldn't take you; looks like language teaching hasn't improved
To be fair, when we did A levels we were required to do:
2 periods a week of a new language not for exam and
2 periods a week Manual Shop (again no pressure)
One of my housemasters had been a professor in Seville and gave me Spanish to do in the back of German classes; got through O level oral in 9 months no problemo thanks to him. Missed written because I had to work abroad.
JR Is there a thread anywhere else about radio luxembourg / tv ,anywhere else as I dont want to look a prat if I start a new thread ?J.R. wrote:TOAST ????????????
TELEVISION ???????????????
RADIO ?????????????????????
The nearest we came to any of these luxuries was around 1962, when the mini transistor came on sale. About a tenner if memory serves, (a lot of money in them days !)
In Col B we'd smuggle 'em in, with the standard ear-piece, and listen to good old Radio Luxenburg under the bed-clothes.
(Did Horace Batchelor ever win a fortune on the pools himself ??)
5h17shoveller wrote:JR Is there a thread anywhere else about radio luxembourg / tv ,anywhere else as I dont want to look a prat if I start a new thread ?J.R. wrote:TOAST ????????????
TELEVISION ???????????????
RADIO ?????????????????????
The nearest we came to any of these luxuries was around 1962, when the mini transistor came on sale. About a tenner if memory serves, (a lot of money in them days !)
In Col B we'd smuggle 'em in, with the standard ear-piece, and listen to good old Radio Luxenburg under the bed-clothes.
(Did Horace Batchelor ever win a fortune on the pools himself ??)
1955 - 1961; we had a radio in the day room which was on for about 30 minutes a day before prep. (other houses may have had different rules) and it was usually Radio Luxembourg . A few monitors had gramaphones but in about 1959 all records had to undergo examination and confiscation under new rules which banned all pop records and they banned RTL for the same reason.NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:TOAST --- RADIO --- TELEVISION ---- ?
NONE of these were available to me ---- particularly not TV !!!!
I suspect he made a bit on the commissions just like the authors who make a bomb on their book entitled "how to make yourself irresistable to nymphomaniac women"##.Did Horace Batchelor ever win a fortune on the pools himself ??
) referred to Radio Luxembourg:
) DiscussJust ran across Davids' note. I ran Radio Caroline for the last two years, took the final audiences to more than 26 million a week, made a few pounds and moved the HQ in August, 1967 to Amsterdam. A great time in the UK - took the BBC by the scruff of the neck, showed them Radio '60's style and grabbed their audience! Moved on to freelance for Radio Luxembourg as the next adventure and the BBC hired all my disc jockeys for the new Radio One.DavidRawlins wrote:I think Terence Bate Col A 1945 had a lot to do with Radio Caroline
hunturk wrote:We have a few privileges. You aren't allowed into senior kitchen until you are in the UF and the same goes for visits into Horsham. Grecians path is reserved for Deps and above, but that gets abused all the time by everyone, me included. I can't really think of anything else, certainly not the whole toast thing.
On the topic of hierarchy, it is still alive and kicking, in some houses certainly more than others. In Peele A it is definitely there, but it is declining from when i first joined the school. In my squits you would never say anything to a older year for fear of some serious beatings. In my 3rd form it was the same. Except now we had someone below us which made a change. In my LE though the school took a harsher stance which meant that it became a pretty bad idea to be "not nice" to a younger year, and we had to endure lots of cheekiness. However, in my UF and GE years, juniors seemed to get the message and left us alone most of the time.
We can still commandeer food and other items and make juniors get out of their seats etc.
Mine too!J.R. wrote:hunturk wrote:We have a few privileges. You aren't allowed into senior kitchen until you are in the UF and the same goes for visits into Horsham. Grecians path is reserved for Deps and above, but that gets abused all the time by everyone, me included. I can't really think of anything else, certainly not the whole toast thing.
On the topic of hierarchy, it is still alive and kicking, in some houses certainly more than others. In Peele A it is definitely there, but it is declining from when i first joined the school. In my squits you would never say anything to a older year for fear of some serious beatings. In my 3rd form it was the same. Except now we had someone below us which made a change. In my LE though the school took a harsher stance which meant that it became a pretty bad idea to be "not nice" to a younger year, and we had to endure lots of cheekiness. However, in my UF and GE years, juniors seemed to get the message and left us alone most of the time.
We can still commandeer food and other items and make juniors get out of their seats etc.
That was virtually a 'hanging' offence in my day !!!
