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Welcome to the Guestbook
Feel free to add messages relating to the site and the school. The only rules are: real names only, no personal attacks and no unrelated messages (inappropriate messages may be edited/withdrawn without warning).
It would be appreciated if you gave an email address, where you now live and said when you were at the school, but you don't have to.
Plase note that if you click on an email address below you will need to replace ~DOT~ with . and ~AT~ with @ in your email program. The Guestbook presents these this way to avoid email address harvesters collecting your email addresses from the page. I know it's a pain, but it's very much better than the alternative.
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john orton
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reply to jean-paul - i remember two French assistants - both were great - one of then was lodging in the Lake area - Farding Square and I remember him on a late bus with several girls who loved his accent - may have been you?
Sun 4-Aug-2019 15:17
- Portishead
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Edward Forrster
| r2edforster~AT~live~DOT~ca
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I've been sitting bored & the ancient brain has started to reminisce about my time at school. I was a rotten pupil, always getting into trouble for such as smoking, playing truant
bottom of the class most of the time I was only 15 when quitting, Because my pal who worked in a shipyard & started night school, I joined him. The teacher got me a job as an apprentice shipwright & because I was the only apprentice who went to night school I was put into the mold loft, When I was 25 I saw an advert. for a loftsman in Montreal, so off I went. A few years later saw an advert for a draughtsman in in aircraft so back to Coventry England. More night school. Later an advert for draughtsmen in Montreal appeared,so off I & my family went there, more night school & ended up as a senior structure design specialist All that diatribe shows is that one can improve oneself with a bit of hard work.
Fri 10-May-2019 00:28
- PEI Canada
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Jean-Paul G. POTET
| potetjp~AT~orange~DOT~fr
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Hello. I was the French assistant under Dr. Skilling during the academic year 1965-66. I have devoted a whole chapter to my experience in South-Shields in my French book "Concombre en Absurdistan". Do you think I should donate a copy to the school library? Also, among other things? I have written a sitcom "Spiffies and Loonies" (French version "Fringues et Dingues") that also exists in a bilingual version (English-French) "Mirrored in French" (two volumes). Do you think the theatre club might be interested in playing some episodes? Best regards
Wed 13-Mar-2019 22:50
- Paris area, France
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NEALE Backhouse
| nealebackh~AT~gmail~DOT~com
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Hi Ed
Congratulations on your 93rd birthday. Hope the nasty leg pains have cleared up.This is the time of year when we (here in Victoria) start bragging about our early spring flower count. Well not this year. It is snowing heavily at the moment (5.00pm pacific time) and the forecast is for 25cm by tomorow. Not quite in your ballpark on PEI but enough to keep our boastful Chamber of Commerce quiet for a while longer.
Hope you still have your driver's license. After all Prince Philip has recently set the standard in surrendering his licence at age 97. But then he could walk away from a car crash without a ticket!
Best wishes Ed and stay healthy. Neale.
Tue 12-Feb-2019 01:25
- Victoria BC CANADA
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Edward Forster
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Just been reading Patterson's piece about Xmas. Unfortunately I spent Xmas day in the hospital. At 6am I got up & could not straighten my right leg without getting a terrible pain, Paramedics came & took me to the hospital where eventually was injected with something & the pain eventually disappeared.
I'll be 93 this month, so I guess bits & bobs like that are going to happen.
Great New Year to all.
Mon 14-Jan-2019 19:41
- St . Felix Prince Edward Island
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Alex Patterson, VUA, 46-51.
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Hello Mike and anyone else who’s reading this (You should be with your family instead of looking at a computer).
It’s 4:30 pm on Christmas Day and we’ve just finished swapping and opening gifts here at my daughter’s home on Georgian Bay. The whole family is here and the weather is fine, so far...no snow in the forecast. We did well in the gift exchange and are well stocked up with Tullamore D.E.W and, chocolates and liquorice allsorts as well as Tim Horton’s coffee cards and movie cards.
We managed a trip to England this year and stayed for four weeks in South Shields with the Little Haven Hotel as our headquarters. We were amazed at how quiet King Street was on Friday afternoon at 4:30 pm. I took a photo (that I wish I could send to you) to show the only five peopleto be seen around. I’m not sure that this is typical but the whole of down-town (or down-street as I used to call it) was deserted with shops shuttering up as we walked towards Fowler Street.
We loved the Word and spent a couple of afternoons there in the coffee shop and the family history section. We were lucky with the weather...no rain for four weeks!! The food was great and we went to Spanish City for afternoon tea where the old ballroom had been. The refurbishment of the tatty, old domed building has been superbly completed and the new road arrangement and free parking makes for an enjoyable afternoon out.
We took a drive to our old school to see lots of boys and GIRLS in uniform coming out. How long has this been going on? The school looks great and being there brought back many memories. So while it’s still Christmas Day there I’d like to thank you Mike for keeping the site alive and wish everyone a happy and healthy 2019 and one of my New Year resolutions will be to write at least one letter in the middle of the new year, instead of just one at year’s end. I can’t blame my lack of resolve on Backhouse, because he’s written at least two this year.
Best wishes to all and “lang may yer rum leak”
Alex Patterson,
North York, Ontario,
Canada
Tue 25-Dec-2018 22:03
- North York, Ontario, Canada
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Neale Backhouse (Sep 1946 and counting)
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Eric was in possesion, going for goal, was tackled, a ruck formed, Mike picks up and hands off to Backhouse (always where the ball is) who looks to left and right for support. Where is Kenny Oliver ? .......Sorry I'm getting carried away anticipating the World Cup in 2019.
May all Guestbook fans meet with the same success that I hope will be enjoyed by England and Canada at the tournament And a Merry Christmas in the bargain!!
Oh, and as usual, thanks Mike for your continued dedication to the site. (thanks for indulging my foolish whims}
Mon 24-Dec-2018 20:04
- Victoria BC CANADA
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Mike Todd
| m~DOT~todd~AT~miketodd~DOT~net
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Thanks for pointing it out, Eric - not sure what's going on but I'll look into it now - seems that something corrupted the data file - I've restored to latest backup
Sun 2-Dec-2018 10:19
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