Careless. I made very sure that I got a full year between 66 and 68. I don't know how many I have left, so I don't like to miss one.michael scuffil wrote:A prime number again at last, the first for ten years.
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- Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Happy Birthday michael scuffil !!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1953
Re: Happy Birthday michael scuffil !!
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: photo wanted
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4998
Re: photo wanted
Brought back many memories! Glad you like them. If you're into nostalgia, you are welcome to explore some of my other albums on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandsw/sets For Michael Scuffil - if you still have your old colour negatives, they're likely to be in much better condition than the...
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:44 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: photo wanted
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4998
Re: photo wanted
Michael; John Wexler who left Col A in about 1961 -2 has posted a link to his personal photos which are on an outside site - have you looked at those? The link is https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandsw/sets/72157626099253537 - but you won't find what you're looking for, because my photos are all blac...
- Sun Apr 26, 2015 6:38 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 62638
Re: Michael Cherniavsky
I'm glad I don't carry the responsibility of deciding which articles should be published and which should be deleted. I did see the "offending article" before it was deleted. It suggested things that I had not been aware of, so it did surprise me. On the other hand, it was no more outrageo...
- Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Jack Hards and Wells, Prep B bootroom
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7700
Re: Jack Hards and Wells, Prep B bootroom
I cannot believe that these people could seriously have run a barbering business with voluntary customers. That would have been utterly irrelevant in the school's thinking. Hair had to be cut for the same reasons that operate in the army: cleanliness and uniformity. The essential requirements were ...
- Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Book Cricket and Scoring
- Replies: 5
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Re: Book Cricket and Scoring
All this resulted from all boys having learned to score for a cricket match. Each match, whether the school first XI or a house third XI, had to have a scorer, with an official record kept. All junior boys learned to score by having to act as scorers occasionally ... Later there would be non-athlet...
- Thu Apr 09, 2015 4:07 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: So, the underground tunnels...
- Replies: 242
- Views: 113788
Re: So, the underground tunnels...
... I enjoyed your other photos on Flikr especially "On the hills- 1970's" they are very evocative of that period ... I'm glad you enjoyed them. In case you didn't discover them, there are two more nostalgia mines: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandsw/sets/72157627797562261/ https://www.f...
- Thu Apr 09, 2015 4:00 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: So, the underground tunnels...
- Replies: 242
- Views: 113788
Re: So, the underground tunnels...
Well, let me consider what I have in common with Kit.Ajarn Philip wrote:A third possibility exists: you now realise you have more in common than you imagined ...
1. Fond of a pint.
2. Like sailing.
3. Nobody would expect to see me on a bike.
- Tue Apr 07, 2015 8:05 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: So, the underground tunnels...
- Replies: 242
- Views: 113788
Re: So, the underground tunnels...
... You read us short stories like "Ali the terrible turk" a one eyed wrestler, and "Neither man nor Dog". Ah yes. Gerald Kersh. A debased taste, and not very suitable for 11-year-olds. I think I discovered him because Kit Aitken had read us those books in earlier years, but I m...
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Marching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3877
Re: Marching
... I think it is unique to Housey, for, I know of no other (non-military) secondary, educational establishment which has a tradition of marching. I always assumed that the marching was a necessity, rather than some idiosyncratic whim of a militaristic headmaster. The school was condemned to marchi...
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:27 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: So, the underground tunnels...
- Replies: 242
- Views: 113788
Re: So, the underground tunnels...
... you used to read to us brats in the Junior Dorm before lights out - each monitor would read on a different night. You introduced me to books I still have, and I'm sure I have a photo of you in The Pirates of Penzance (unscanned as yet) performed by Col A at the Prep Hall. Hello Robin Wild! I'm ...
- Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:29 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: So, the underground tunnels...
- Replies: 242
- Views: 113788
Re: So, the underground tunnels...
In fact I don't think the monitors ever had fires lit Hmmm. Curious. I was in Col A at almost exactly the same time as sejintenej, and I remember nothing of coal carrying in my early years. However, I do think the two studies had their fires lit. Certainly, when, in later years, I occupied one myse...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:48 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: What moves you?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5680
Re: What moves you?
I'll start off with the Philadelphia Orchestra playing Barber's Adagio for Strings Opus 11 which was recorded at the memorial concert for the victims of 9/11 We can certainly agree on that. Samuel Barber also used the same music for a setting of the Agnus Dei for unaccompanied chorus. That "ou...
- Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: JR?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1862
Re: JR?
Still having problems with Windows Explorer which may due to an Error Message "XAHook.dll missing" which I cannot resolve. A quick browse around the web reveals no authoritative description of XAHool.dll, but many dubious sites offering vague and untrustworthy advice. Some of them offer y...
- Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Rev W Cochrane. (Corks!)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11907
Re: Rev W Cochrane. (Corks!)
Anything modern like jazz was verboten. I don't actually remember any such absolute policy, but perhaps Col A was less rigorous about such things because Kit knew very little about music. In my time - 54 to 62 - there was a "house wireless" kept in the dayroom, and switched on quite a lot...