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- Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Apologies for my absence........
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5276
Re: Apologies for my absence........
............... and while I was typing the above my Skype went online with no assistance from me! I don't want to lose that - it my major link to my Finnish grandchildren.
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Apologies for my absence........
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5276
Re: Apologies for my absence........
I have just been attempting to use Ancestry, which has recently been tarted up and dumbed down. It looks prettier and adds lots of exciting tit-bits about background information like Irish Land Tax etc, but is virtually impossible to use for serious research any more. It insists that my 2xgreat gran...
- Thu Sep 10, 2015 7:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Apologies for my absence........
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5276
Re: Apologies for my absence........
I too have found mine more than usually temperamental in the last few days, so perhaps it is something local to this area. I usually just assume that I am doing something stupid. Recently there have been various problems with mine because apparently various things which I use (Ancestry, BT) no longe...
- Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Does this bring back memories?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12258
Re: Does this bring back memories?
Yes - I too still have and use my school shoe cleaning brushes. And I love the thought of a 6-year-old boy learning to darn socks - must try that one on my grandson. I dearly wish that the overload of clutter was confined to just the loft, but it is actually taking over the house and garden. Somewhe...
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:46 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Does this bring back memories?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12258
Re: Does this bring back memories?
I am definitely tight in terms of not throwing stuff away - I have too many clothes, shoes etc, but many of them are dozens of years old and still usable, because I buy boring classics which will go with anything and not go out of fashion. I cannot go out of fashion, because I have never been in it!...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:05 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Does this bring back memories?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12258
Re: Does this bring back memories?
I am sure that anyone who has ever been a civil servant will remember that even the loo was paper was stamped 'Government Property' - presumably to deter us from stealing it?!
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Where have all the ladies gone?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14953
Re: Where have all the ladies gone?
Luddites of the world unite - we have nothing to lose but our confusion! Good grief - were the Hertford walls really glass encrusted?
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 11:35 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Where have all the ladies gone?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14953
Re: Where have all the ladies gone?
............. embarrassing too to discover on my sojourn in Finland that even my 6-year-old grandson can easily handle a mobile phone, including building whole cities with Minecraft! I still don't have a mobile phone either!
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 11:32 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Where have all the ladies gone?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14953
Re: Where have all the ladies gone?
Aha! I've made it at last! What my daughter did not repeat was that I was threatening to sue the powers-that-be for ageism, sexism, and any other ism I can think of! I see now that I have been unable to connect since April 22 - was it just coincidence that that was roughly when I departed these shor...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Reading to the dormitory
- Replies: 74
- Views: 22346
Re: Reading to the dormitory
I believe it later became a set book for O level GCE or GCSE!
- Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Where have all the ladies gone?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14953
Re: Where have all the ladies gone?
You'll just get to four twenties, not sure that is any better!
- Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:13 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Where have all the ladies gone?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14953
Re: Where have all the ladies gone?
Yes - I could take umbrage at Phil's comments, but I won't because it is so good to see him back on here! Feminist commune in Devon - mmmm that might be interesting! Meaningful life elsewhere - just tell me where and I shall make a beeline for it! In fact I think I shall plump for the existence betw...
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:12 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Last night antics
- Replies: 39
- Views: 32776
Re: Last night antics
'Be prepared' - I was never a scout although the rest of my family were - I was heavily into Guiding both at school and thereafter. However you have quoted my favourite Tom Lehrer song, and I see no problem with quoting the line in full 'Don't solicit for your sister; it's not nice, unless you get a...
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:01 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Jicker, Housey slang and individual Houses
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13396
Re: Jicker, Housey slang and individual Houses
In a bid to include the distaff side in this discussion - on the whole there seem to have been very few slang expressions at Hertford but there were some mysterious ceremonies. In 6's we celebrated midsummer revels; at least the juniors did. Two more expressions which spring to mind were 'locker bir...
- Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:47 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Jicker, Housey slang and individual Houses
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13396
Re: Jicker, Housey slang and individual Houses
Thanks for the key, Keith.