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Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:05 pm

CH only has a week - in fact half term doesn`t officially begin until 12.30 tomorrow and everyone is expected back by 8.30 pm on sunday 25th - that means your half term is longer Gemma!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:21 pm

......... and someone was harping back to early 60's ??

NO half-term holidays in those days, and only 3 half Saturdays, (afternoons) a term allowed out with parents.

Mind you, there was law and order in those days.............

AND capital punishment.

Arr, the good old days, indeed.

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:57 pm

Mrs C. wrote:CH only has a week - in fact half term doesn`t officially begin until 12.30 tomorrow and everyone is expected back by 8.30 pm on sunday 25th - that means your half term is longer Gemma!

I know 12.30 isn't exactly late but wouldn't it make sense to say everyone can go after breakfast? It would make a difference to those who have long journeys. Or do you still have Saturday morning lessons tomorrow?

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:19 pm

Yes lessons tomorrow - enough are missed at leave weekends!

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:37 pm

Mrs C. wrote:Yes lessons tomorrow - enough are missed at leave weekends!

How mean

I would have been OK as I had 5 "frees" on a Saturday

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:40 pm

Well my elder daughter came home this afternoon saying she was home for half term now as her lessons tomorrow have been cancelled for one reason or another. So she`s happy!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:53 pm

Mine have been off this week, and of course missed the last two days last week because of the snow.

I have been OK because they are old enough to look after themselves (haha) but it was terrible for people with younger ones.

By the way, at Hertford we only had ONE Long Saturday, 10am to 5pm, but our terms were shorter (except the spring one).

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:54 pm

YOu do realise Gemma that you will now be known as 'The girl with one shoe'.

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:51 pm

englishangel wrote:Mine have been off this week, and of course missed the last two days last week because of the snow.

I have been OK because they are old enough to look after themselves (haha) but it was terrible for people with younger ones.

Mine are off next week although today was a "teacher training" day

My eldest is happy as her birthday falls in the half term this year!

englishangel wrote:By the way, at Hertford we only had ONE Long Saturday, 10am to 5pm, but our terms were shorter (except the spring one).

I look back now & think how short the terms were really. Going on how fast my kids terms go they fly by. The first few terms at Hertford seemed an eternity.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:28 pm

englishangel wrote:YOu do realise Gemma that you will now be known as 'The girl with one shoe'.

aka Cinderella ???

icomefromalanddownunder · Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:57 am

J.R. wrote:......... and someone was harping back to early 60's ??

NO half-term holidays in those days, and only 3 half Saturdays, (afternoons) a term allowed out with parents.

Mind you, there was law and order in those days.............

AND capital punishment.

Arr, the good old days, indeed.

JR, you are, IMO

.......................................................................incorrigible!

And, er, with respect, surely incorrect?

Was not Bentley or Craig the last person to be hanged in England, and did this not take place in the late 50s or very early 60s?

Ah, the Sixties!
Fantastic music, great fashions, no doubt that there was a job waiting for us when we wanted one, student grants, curries our mums made, complete with sultanas and chopped apple. Oooops - changing threads
here.

Yesterday, temperature 40oC, and I was carting large boxes of lab supplies from my car to the storage area. Oh, forgot, back in the 60s universities employed Technicians and Research Assistants to look after stuff like that. Being the impatient and unco-ordinated person that I am, I kept overloading the sack truck, such that smaller boxes cascaded around me as I limped the trolley over the door jamb. What should be playing on the radio? 'Help!'. I started to laugh, and sing along loudly, but no-one took the hint and came to my assistance

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sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:13 pm

gemmygemmerson wrote:Its my half term wooooo!. Only for a week though not like those beautiful half terms at CH.
I want to live in the 60s.

Half term was one afternoon (two periods each of 45 minutes) off with the possibility of a parental visit for 4 hours. Wahoo!

gemmygemmerson wrote:They sound much more fun. Everything was free and happy ( not everything though, I'm not an idiot), ok Most things were free and happy not like today.

Flower power and all that - don't remind JR about what was free and what four letter acronym for help didn't exist.

gemmygemmerson · Post by **gemmygemmerson** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:56 pm

Mrs C. wrote:CH only has a week - in fact half term doesn`t officially begin until 12.30 tomorrow and everyone is expected back by 8.30 pm on sunday 25th - that means your half term is longer Gemma!

I suppose it is isn't it. Yay. I finished at 3.30 on friday and will go back at 8.30 on monday. That is, if I turn up on time

Girl with one shoe! You are kidding me. I knew I shouldn't have mentioned that. A nickname before I'm there. God help me. Though, at least it isnt somethign really rude or nasty. A girl in my shoe was called jackie **** teeth for 2 years. that was a word beginning with f by the way

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60's though. must have been a brill time no matter what, at least you could leave your house without the fear of getting shot. Living in peckham, just over the road ( literaly) from where people are getting shot makes you awfully frightened to walk around the neighbourhood. If you see someone with a hood you cross the road. I hate yobs and chavs. I don't wear my hooded tops anymore just becaus eof the social stigma that is portrayed...... and because they wont allow you into most shops with one on.

On a completely side note....has anyone seen 'Hot Fuzz' It's hands down the best film of the year. Even 'oldies' are bound to love it

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:56 am

Zombies were my paranoid fear as a child and I didn't really get over it until nearly cracking a rib laughing at 'Shaun of the Dead' so I think I would like 'Hot Fuzz'.

The young man I work with (20) has seen both 'Music & Lyrics' and 'Hot Fuzz' this week and proclainmed them both 'brilliant', but then he is also a Man Utd fan so not sure how far I can trust his judgement.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:18 pm

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:
J.R. wrote:......... and someone was harping back to early 60's ??

NO half-term holidays in those days, and only 3 half Saturdays, (afternoons) a term allowed out with parents.

Mind you, there was law and order in those days.............

AND capital punishment.

Arr, the good old days, indeed.
And, er, with respect, surely incorrect?

Was not Bentley or Craig the last person to be hanged in England, and did this not take place in the late 50s or very early 60s?

Certainly not so !

I think the one of the last executions carried out in this country was on an a certain, Gunther Fritz Padola, who shot and killed a C.I.D. detective in West London, whilst attempting to evade arrest. This was around 1963, and after James Hanratty, the A.6 killer who was hanged during my time in Coleridge B, I think 61 or 62. I remember getting into trouble when I cut a headline from one paper, 'Hanratty Hanged !!', and stuck it to my locker door. R.A. Hewitt, deputy housemaster, took exception to this for some reason.

Ruth Ellis was of course, the last woman to be executed in this country and this was instramental in the abolishment of the death sentence when she had shot and killed her ex-lover. Under the French law of the day, this would have been classed a crime of passion, and she would have been spared the noose.

The Craig & Bentley incident in South Croydon was the late 50's, which I vaguely remember.