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I know, it's a terrible thing to happen to a girl...sejintenej wrote:That's the trouble with Housie; you were so imbued with the sense that even thinking of having fun is immoral so even now you can't be anything that might be less that more Victorian than the late Queen.Ruthie-Baby wrote:I'm as good now as I was at school....
Poor girl ...........
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I think introducing the longer leave weekend was one of the best things that happened while I was at CH. Many people such as myself took a long time to get home and with (in the old system) you not being allowed to go until after midday on Saturday, it was possible not to actually get home until the evening and you had literally 12 hours at home and no more. I think it's just common sense and overdue really that it got extended.
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As some of us old codgers have said before, we never went home at all! .... no half terms, no leave week-ends. Three times a term (maximum) your parents were allowed to visit. You could order a table for lunch in the tuckshop (price 4/6d a head) and sit with your parents in what is now, I think, the play school. Ma Tickner would serve you with a fairly basic cottage pie and pud.Ruthie-Baby wrote:but is it necessary to go home?
we were quite happy with a leave day from 12.30 to 6pm - I lived miles away but through my juniors my parents generally came to see me and took me out for a pub lunch...
We thought we were lucky. A mere hundred years before our time, they didn't even get any holidays. You arrived aged eight and stayed until you left for university or wherever - just 2 days off for Christmas if you were lucky.
Talking of the the play school, one does wonder why it is needed. When I first saw it, I assumed that marriage among pupils had become commonplace since the merger (it was, if not unknown among pupils in the early days in London, at least fairly unusual). However, I now presume that, since the days of the bachelor housemaster living in his study downstairs and bedroom upstairs are now long past, the breeding programme at the school is in fact due to the increased fecundity of its staff rather than the pupils.
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