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In the days of capital and corporal punishment, the resident 'Doc' was Dr. 'Tommy' Scott. There were four full-time nurses, and a dentist, (Mr Pearson), used to come in from Horsham and hold surgery once a week. (Tuesday's, I think). He really should have been a butcher by profession.
Those long queues before classes I remember well. I suffered with warts on the fingers and had to have them painted with some revolting silver/black material three times a week. The smell was revolting and it took months to kill them.
I never minded a spell in the sicker as the food always seemed a lot better than in the dining-hall.
Those long queues before classes I remember well. I suffered with warts on the fingers and had to have them painted with some revolting silver/black material three times a week. The smell was revolting and it took months to kill them.
I never minded a spell in the sicker as the food always seemed a lot better than in the dining-hall.
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Yes, snooker AND television. Rare treats when we were juniors.sport! wrote:quite right, though I don't ever remember feeling particularly ill on those occasions when I stayed there. There was a chicken pox "epidemic" in summer 74 and I was kept in to be on the safe side although I only had one or two spots......probably acne.......so that was quite jolly - reading, listening to music, playing snooker upstairs....Ruthie-Baby wrote:The words 'jolly' and 'sicker' do not sit comfortably together, I feel
Are you sure it wasn't German Measles, by the way?
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you mean in summer 74? could have been, I was confined for both (on separate occasions)....just thought it was chicken pox as I remember being collected straight from the sicker for the summer holidays by someone who was worried about catching it....could have been 75?Richard Ruck wrote:Yes, snooker AND television. Rare treats when we were juniors.
Are you sure it wasn't German Measles, by the way?
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It was bad - everything was fixed with 4 glasses of sicker squash, paracetomol or tubie grips...Ruthie-Baby wrote:By 1990 it was far worse. You had to prove you were ill by vomiting on command, otherwise you were thrown out with some paracetamol, even if you were at death's door.
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In my day everyone LONGED to be in the sicker
Better food
ladies to mop your brow
Exciting tablets
I still have all my diaries written at the school
The best nurse was called Nurse Ramsbottom
She was rather overweight and had strange horn rimmed spectacles but as a little boy whose parents had abandoned him to a school where diseases ran rife such as the famous influenza epidemic of 1970 she was the only truly kind and loving woman I ever met there
I didnt say girl
I said woman
And I am talking about the year I was 12 yrs old
If I ever met her I would buy her a bottle of Champagne for showing me such kindness
I must stop rambling on
Better food
ladies to mop your brow
Exciting tablets
I still have all my diaries written at the school
The best nurse was called Nurse Ramsbottom
She was rather overweight and had strange horn rimmed spectacles but as a little boy whose parents had abandoned him to a school where diseases ran rife such as the famous influenza epidemic of 1970 she was the only truly kind and loving woman I ever met there
I didnt say girl
I said woman
And I am talking about the year I was 12 yrs old
If I ever met her I would buy her a bottle of Champagne for showing me such kindness
I must stop rambling on