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01 Mar 2018
Welcome to March, which reached me before most readers I guess. As
I sit early glass in my hand on a lazy afternoon in Melbourne with the
sun shining brightly. Off to Sydney tomorrow for the week-end and business
next week. I should have checked but discover too late, it's the Mardi
Gras this week-end in Sydney, no wonder the prices are so high! But
at least it'll be another tick in a box I never imagined I'd have!
http://www.mardigras.org.au/parade
John Eustace (M59-62)
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01 Mar 2018
Hell March and
St David's Day,
Falkirk is on shut
down due to the snow - Red alert was not a joke - even us Carers have
been told to stay home. Offered to walk locals and was told to hang
fire. Not like us hardy Windsorites eh?
LOL
IzzzzI Forbes (E72-75)
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01 Mar 2018
Just to reassure
Mr Hern - yes, we have snow on the Moray coast at the moment, it looks
amazing in our little village, but we aren't in the red alert area.
In fact, it's apparently rare for us to get snow at the coast so I am
taking advantage and taking photos. We are in a better position here
than I was in rural North Yorkshire - we have mains gas here, also a
log burner and an open coal fire, so we are rather cosy behind the thick
stone walls. The little dog, who hates to get wet in the rain, loves
the snow :-) But we haven't been on the beach the last couple of days
- as old fogeys we are a little cautious about walking down the hill
in the snow. Maybe we need to invest in skis! We had a couple of snowy
winters at WGS - one of the old Ambassador magazines has photos of the
snow castles and snowmen made by the girls (Sandringham, I think) during
a snowy spell. (You see what I did there, bringing it back to Windsor?)
Pamela Ross (StJ63-68)
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02 Mar 2018
Hi all,
Is everyone being
asked if they are a robot and to pick road signs in boxes before they
enter this forum?????
If I was a robot I be behave better!!!!!
IzzzzI Forbes (E72-75)
I
only pay for a limited amount of forms to be processed each month so
have to use a spam filter to stop them getting used up by bots.
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03 Mar 2018
Hi all
Just discovered this site....wow memories flooding back. Where to start
so many names to recall..... Tony Ried, Steve McKnight, Nige Hoar, Mark
"Noddy " Holder, Phil "Peasoup" Morris, Paul Metcalf
to name a few, girls.....Carol Hyde, Pam or Paula Smith? Pearl &
Heather Metcalf...I'm sure mor would come if prompted.
Memories of WBS
& Sandringham....great school band did Santana songs which was brill,,
can't remember their name "Black....?" Tall Yank who was a
day border was in it he would of been in our Sixth form then which had
some tough cookies " bullies" in it! Lol. Getting hammered
by a lad in Marlborough House at the rear playing field after I had
scythed him down with a sliding tackle during a house football match.
Still got the house badge and ribbons somewhere and some old school
reports my dad had kept. Those long bus trips during viso and all the
contraband. Our house matrons, one of which we all fancied! Mr Ramsdale
"Catweasel" winding up the old lady serving us at the canteen
"menche" I think she used to shout at us, swapping puddings
and other items of food for something you wanted, Busting my big toe
under one of them old steel bedside lockers,
Sorry to ramble....anybody wants to get in touch or remember me, feel
free, will have to see how this site works first I suppose.
Dave Halsall (S72-75)
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06 Mar 2018
Some notable colleagues
from my dormitory
David Hague
John Schofield
Andy McDonald
Alan Smith (Smudge) Brilliant pianist. Got suspended many times
Girls:
Deberah Bailey
Lynne Harvey (Sister) attended WGS
Jacks Union Band
Remember Keith Bonthrone the drummer, inspired to take up drumming.
Still have a kit today. Did some great end of term gigs.
Stephen Harvey (C67-70)
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06 Mar 2018
Dear Mr Herne. Can
you please help me get my head around this ( should have paid more attention
in your lessons). There's an item for sale £97. I borrow £50
from both Mum & Dad (£100). Buy the item and get £3
change. I give £1 to both Mum and Dad so now owe them £49
each and keep a pound for myself which is weird in itself. But the £49
I owe both Mum and Dad add up to £98. When I add my £1 it
totals £99. Please please please try to explain so I stop pulling
my hair out. Thanking you in advance Gillers, Marlborough house detainee
73-77.
Gez (Gillers) Gilmer
(M73-77)
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07 Mar 2018
Gillers this is
a really old 'chestnut'. I can remember Mr Hankinson scratching his
head over it. Strangely maths seems to bore some people so I'll just
say that you can find the solution to this on the Internet and it's
all about confusing what you paid out with what you still have.
Try https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=857055.
Geoff Hern (M60-80)
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10 Mar 2018
Hi, I'm Martyn's
daughter. He died in 2009 and I regularly flick through a book that
he owned from 1957 when he was leaving this school and lots of people
wrote in it. I was just hoping for some stories about my Dad if anyone
remembers him. I'm not sure what house he was in. Thank you.
Martyn Timothy Biddiscombe
(B50-57)
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12 Mar 2018
Now that Accrington
Stanley have reached the top of League Division Two, I hope Geoff Hern
will retract his impertinent( !) remarks about Maurice Hallworth and
myself being their only two supporters.(See his posting in 2014) Indeed,
when Bill Greer (Caernarvon 1965-8) and I were last at the Crown Ground
there were 982 supporters. And now, approaching the moment when they
may be promoted to Division One, they still, unbelievably, have the
least funds to draw upon in Division 2!!
Mike Capey (C63-70)
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14 Mar 2018
Mike Good to see
a post from you again and I stand corrected. Amazing that there are
actually 979 other supporters as well as you and Maurice although some
must have been supporting the opposition - I don't count Bill Greer
as you probably dragged him there under the pretext of going on a canal
boat cruise. Is the ground big enough to cope with that number? I was
not aware of the team's success since, as I've written before, I do
not follow football anymore but it's good to know that they have managed
it without use of the crazy funding that most clubs now have.
Geoff Hern (M60-80)
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14 Mar 2018
Warming up for the
Worlds' Longest Lunch tomorrow when the table will be 500 metres long
in Melbourne for a lunch that will last 4 hours. It sought to remind
me of one other reason for a case against BFS Schools. That is if you
didn't eat very quickly you'd go hungry! In the 4th year I recall the
head of table called Bramley insisting all had to contribute to his
large plate of food. It now appears eating too quickly contributes to
Diabetes type 2! Another gem happening here is a school pupils strike,
caused by the dismissal of the deputy Head for slightly cutting the
hair of a pupil prior to the school photo. Calls for the Head to be
dismissed and the self elected governors to resign. Contrast that with
4 of the slipper for eating pickled onions after lights out which I
wouldn't have minded had I liked onions!
John Eustace (M59-62)
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17 Mar 2018
All done & dusted!
I now have several new arterial grafts assisting my heart to tick loud
and strong. I am not pain free, as there are many scars and woulds that
were inflicted upon me by the surgical team, but I am definitely now
on the road to recovery. Apparently I played up under the influence
of the drugs used during my operation, and caused quite a fuss in theatre,
and later on in Intensive care, so much so that my return to the cardiac
ward was delayed by 4 whole days! Surprisingly, the worst pain is down
my left leg, where I have a scar from thigh to ankle, indicating where
they harvested the arteries from. No doubt I will regain movement soon,
and the pain will subside. Isn't medical technology wonderful?
Jim Rafferty (M60-63)
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17 Mar 2018
Pleased to hear
that the patched and mended Jim is back amongst us! I suppose we were
full of the joys of youth way back when at WGS and WBS, along the lines
of the Who song - we never thought the Stones would still be rolling
after so many years, well into their pensions. I'm glad it has all gone
so well, hopefully the pain will quickly reduce and disappear, but at
least your heart is still able to go thumpity thump and continue allowing
you to post on these pages. Since you left when I first came to WGS,
our paths may just have crossed. I have to say, although 1963 doesn't
seem a long time ago in my memory, as far as technology goes it might
as well have been the Ice Age, and beyond comprehension to our children
and grandchildren, how we could possibly have survived without mobile
phones and internet. And we didn't even have TV at school - which anyway
would have been black and white.
Pamela Ross (StJ63-68)
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18 Mar 2018
That's great news
Jim. Thanks for keeping us informed. Glad that the, very unjustly, much
maligned NHS came up the the goods. Sounds like a major job and let's
hope that the pain goes soon. Want any snow Pamela? We've got plenty
and it should be spring in SW England.
Geoff Hern (M60-80)
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21 Mar 2018
I was at WBS in
Marlborough House from 1972-1974 starting as a 1st year. My elder brother,
David was there too - he was Lanky, I was known as Little Lanky. I remember
G (Hairy) Hern as a duty master, PMK and the two matrons, F Blasing
and Burmeister and I have seen posts from D Whitefield who was also
in Marlborough and lived in the same place as me, Liebenau. My Father
was posted in 1974 and I then went to school at Kings' School Gutersloh,
leaving WBS which I really regretted. I learned so much in those two
short years for which I have always been very grateful, and I was so
sad to see the pictures of the school abandoned and being demolished
. Best wishes to you all and this site too.
Peter Brown (M72-74)
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25 Mar 2018
Geoff- you are closer
than you imagine about Bill Greer on our narrowboat. The Leeds-Liverpool
Canal runs close to Accrington, and he has indeed been with us on one
occasion. When we went together to see Stanley play, however, it was
by coach, an occasion when Shrewsbury (Bill's team) beat Accrington
Stanley, I think, 2-1.
Mike Capey (C63-70)
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27 Mar 2018
I am looking to
contact Anne James/Thompson if anybody has her contact details that
would be really great.
Thanks
Kevin Eldridge (
M79-83)
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