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Pattern

I am the untidiest person I know. Unfortunately my husband and sons are the second, third and fourth untidiest people, and we are all hoarders which makes it worse. My daughter is quite tidy. When at CH I used to unpack my suitcase on the last dayy of the holidays. You haven't met my family, Mary!!...

I notice Kerren is on there too. She was Upper Sixth in 2's when I started. I bumped into her on OB day in 1994 (I think) and she didn't remember me :( Is there any special reason as to why she should remember you Mary? Just that we were in the same house. Pointing out how we don't remember people ...

I notice Kerren is on there too. She was Upper Sixth in 2's when I started. I bumped into her on OB day in 1994 (I think) and she didn't remember me :( Is there any special reason as to why she should remember you Mary? The only thing she remembers about me is that she has had so many adressess fro...

Yes, I've spotted the 'Housey walk' too.

Hitchhiker

I always put my PE kit on if there's a power cut. WHY? Is this a Horsham fetish? I still find it very hard to write anything in a book - such as an improvement to a recipe. I also make hospital corners when making the bed. I remember cutting bread for breakfast but ours were bloomer loaves, cut in ...

I think this use of nouns as verbs is a primarily American habit, isn't it? If anyone has any examples please feel free to name and shame. Perhaps not corporate speak but a lovely example of this happened to us in Malaysia. Our family were staying in a rest house and for breakfast ordered 3 full br...

Peninsula

I'm there now too!

As a daughter and grand-daughter of clerics, it is something I have come to terms with in years of living overseas with friends of many faiths. My variation would be that Jesus is MY way to salvation. I accept quite fully that had I been born into a different family my beliefs would be quite differe...

An English teacher colleague of mine was teaching the use of apostrophes when one girl went very pale. Her father (?grandfather?) had opened a bookshop in Wimbledon and during the lesson Rebecca realised that the apostrophe was in the wrong place. My colleague, a young teacher, wasn't sure what to s...

Tower

I'm going to play in someone elses play-ground because Marty is a
particularly dapper young

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