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well, I wasn't far off!! I did fail Latin...and it was a long time ago
Maria Vatanen nee Grogan 6's (6:12) 81-85 BaB (BaB48) 85-87
I can remember Halloween, but not Bonfire Night.
There was one year when we sat round the dayroom in the dark, while older girls conducted an 'operation' on a patient. The various parts were then handed round in the dark - skin, eyeballs, fingers, etc., to much squealing and giggling. Another year I remember being blindfolded and having to pick up an apple in my mouth, from a tub of water (how unhygienic!). Maybe these were just 2's traditions, and other houses did different things?
I don't remember Halloween at Hertford, but then again it may have fallen in the holiday we had in October during 4term year. And our family never celebrated Halloween at home .
kerrensimmonds wrote:I can remember Halloween, but not Bonfire Night.
There was one year when we sat round the dayroom in the dark, while older girls conducted an 'operation' on a patient. The various parts were then handed round in the dark - skin, eyeballs, fingers, etc., to much squealing and giggling. Another year I remember being blindfolded and having to pick up an apple in my mouth, from a tub of water (how unhygienic!). Maybe these were just 2's traditions, and other houses did different things?
I think MKM mentioned something similar in 6's and we certainly used the cellar at such times.
November 5th I think we just sat at dorm windows and watched everyone else's fireworks.
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
I've got a vague memory of being in the cellar in total darkness and a voice saying
"And now" (taking my hand) "you are going to feel a real brain..."
My hand was directed into a container of something horribly squidgy. I'd forgotten all about this! I wonder whatever the faux brain was?
Yeuch!
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
Angela - I would like to refer you to the time the Vth form in 2's were presenting the St Matthew's Day festivities and did that same game in the cellar.(I think I posted about this once). The {sick} thing was we had visited the butcher in Hertford earlier in the day, and the slimy things/the round squishy objects/ the firm rubbery things etc WERE brains/eyeballs/lungs etc, albeit bovine!! Nasty little creatures we were!! The smell was quite unpleasant!!
And I learned from another Hertford Old Blue this evening that we must have had fireworks at least once. Because they were subsequently banned as a result of the complaints of cat owners who lived nearby.....
I have to say that I don't remember this, but she was a year above me.She does however remember the Halloween traditions, and that in 3's they had actual Halloween decorations - and activities including apple dunking. She agrees (and I have a faint recollection) about sitting on dorm windowsills and watching local fireworks.
It's pop bang and fizzle outside here tonight, and the dog is very stressed. Hope it ends soon!
One year, either in UVI or senior 6th we scrounged a large swede from somewhere, carved it and set it on the study window sill lit up from within. There were some gratifying shrieks from staff as they went up to supper.
At some time we did apple bobbing, and I have a vague memory of sticky buns on a string, and trying to eat them with hands tied behind the back.
Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit a social science.
Kerren I have no memory of fireworks in my time. I did join the school in LIV, so it may have been when my year were Third form, or I'm going senile.
I have vague memories of trying to make Halloween fun from old traditions - peeling an apple round and round so that you get one very long strip and then throwing it over a shoulder to form the initial of the one you would marry - or was that another night of the year?
I did fail Latin...and it was a long time ago 
