Good mormng all
Well, things are moving on at a pace! Welcome to all new members who seem a lively bunch. Do you remember me Chris (Cronin) as we used to meet regularly in detention if I remember correctly. I was fortunate that on the day of the 'railings' incident I was late back from lunch otherwise there is no doubt that I would have been involved but I do remember it. It seems to me that the top-ten on the detention list are now members!!! I remember that different teachers would supervise the detention class in their own way. Some would let you do homework, others would make you sit still and quiet for exactly one hour (difficult!) or make you write 'lines'. I think this was Joe Cannon's preferred method and soon as you finished the required amount you could go. Sometimes you could be out in 25 minutes. I was always late for my evening paper-round. That's another story, paper rounds!.
The weather here is cooler now with daytime temp max of 25C and the nights cooling down to around 12C. Still blue skies and sunshine.
I have some more memories of probably 3rd or 4th year at Brougham Hayes. You will recall that only first years had a milk allocation and this was dropped off at the main gate. On the way into school in the morning we would fill our bags with this milk which meant that the dear little first years were not getting their milk!! I think Bill Hayman read the riot act again in assembly and a prefect was appointed to 'guard' the milk.
We also gambled our school dinner money by getting together an odd number of boys. We would then spin a coin and allow it to land on the back of the hand and promptly cover it up. All would reveal the heads or tails. If there was an odd one out then he was a winner and duly collected all the coins. No odd one out then no winner.
I remember a crazy game we used to play in the breaks. It involved the victim holding out in front of him a coin. The idea was to stare at the coin and spin around a number of times (cannot remember how many). The coin was then dropped to the floor and the victim had to stand on it for 10 seconds. The results were hilarious and nobody ever managed to complete the game. There was a degree of difficulty in actually standing let alone standing still on a coin for 10 seconds. Who needs Nintendo! Do you remember and were you one of those that tried?
Sorry there has been no mention of buses, motorbikes or bloody canals!!!
Cheers for now.
Steve
- 11/12/2009 11:30:29 AM