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Welcome back. I've missed you and whisky (malt and blended) has been a poor substitute.
Sorry to hear you were under the weather. Hope everything's okay now,
Hugs
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Ditto, Cossie. I hope you're okay and that you had a good trip. With best wishes,
David
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Registered: August 2006
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Welcome back Cossie, have also missed you and your awesome posts. Was about to send out the search party. Hope you are feeling ok now.
Aussie
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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It's reassuring that someone noticed my absence!
I had a super short break in Winchester - a small but beautiful city, where Deej was educated. He hasn't been there for a while, and the city seems to have recovered remarkably well!
I particularly enjoyed discovering that the scholars of Winchester College went to bed with candles until 1930 (I'm curious to know how the candles were utilised after lights out!) and that they were required to bathe in cold water in tin baths until 1951. My only regret is that, as a callow youth, Deeej escaped this clearly beneficial regime!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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I'm surprised we nancy Southerners allowed you in after all the things you've said about us.
Hugs
Nigel
(born as a Hampshire Hog)
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Cossie said,
>I particularly enjoyed discovering that the scholars of Winchester College went to bed with candles until 1930 (I'm curious to know how the candles were utilised after lights out!) and that they were required to bathe in cold water in tin baths until 1951. My only regret is that, as a callow youth, Deeej escaped this clearly beneficial regime!
In the late eighties, when they had not yet installed central heating, there was one particularly cold snap at the beginning of Common Time (the Easter term). Some enterprising Collegemen (scholars) built a snowman in one of the upstairs chambers (dormitories). It did not melt for a week. When the parents came to hear of it, they queued up outside the Master-in-College's study to complain. Eventually, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the school capitulated. Note that it was the namby-pamby parents who persuaded the school to install central heating, not we hardy Collegemen.
One of the luxuries of living in an ancient institution far older than health and safety regulations was that we were allowed to have open fires in downstairs rooms.
Another luxury was open showers. These had gone by the time I left, unfortunately.
David
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Actually, communal showers weren't that great. They had no temperature controls. This means that they took about 10 minutes to warm up, during which time they would be freezing, they would be okay for about one minute, then they would become scaldingly hot and you could not have a shower without hopping in and out, screaming with pain, and turning bright red afterwards.
There were also baths in the middle of the floor, carefully positioned so that anyone who came through could have a really good look at your genitals on their way to the sinks. Some people would lie in there all afternoon reading the newspaper.
David
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