School shoes

Was the uniform for The Friary grey with red?

I always wanted to go there after my friend from primary school moved to Lichfield.
Our uniform was a grotty green and navy.

thatbags there is a strange train of thought that one's appearance is reflective of one's ability to learn! I always like to think of that famous picture of Einstein.

Be gatting on wi yowr work or you'll feel the back of my hand!

And you said....?

Never mind Titus Andronicus. In my first job, I made recalcitrant pupils learn passages from the Old Testament.

And X begat Y; Y begat Z...

Please Miss, what does 'begat' mean?

What's wrong with school kids looking scruffy, by the way? I've always wondered. If you can't be scruffy when you're a kid when can you?

Was the same at my convent. The Friary was very high C of E! Bells and smells and church twice on Sunday's! Ugh!

If you had spelt your name Ainé or some other outlandish way we would have guessed







only jesting BTW !

I hadn't realised you were Irish, Anya!

Better get the fish fingers on...GC arriving any minute!

Hiya Anya!

I didn't realise I was talking to a 2nd class individual, and a fee paying one at that. Bejesus a rich proddy!

As we 'non-Catholics' were 2nd class individuals beyond redemption (never mind that the fee-paying pupils outnumbered RCs 2:1) as we were frequently reminded, far be it for me to doubt anything I was told !
The only male on the premises was the gardener and the one time there was a male teacher he had to sit in a separate Staff room..... Any girl seen within 10 feet of either got a Saturday detention (made his teaching rather remote!)

He was probably wearing plimsolls.

To be sure Ana why didn't I think of that earlier.

I'd really like to thank Liza for starting this thread and reviving my happy memories of boarding school. I haven't had such fun since Father Geary slipped off the porch roof while he was repairing the tiles under Sister Ignatious's cell.

It must have been Holy Spirit water...

Distinct

No, tap water doesn't have that districts odour of juniper berries I always associate with genuine Holy Water.

Loopy are you suggesting it was only tap water?

Or it wasn't Holy Water she was swigging !

She kept a small bottle of Holy Water in her habit. It was her habit to take a swig now and then when teaching us. I am impressed that she was so ahead of her time.

No Friars either Galen though we did have a very whiskery Sister John.

No Friars. Just a load of bigoted old spinsters who believed in a very religious upbringing where sex did not even exist.