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#1: Mornings Author: Miriam, Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:06 pm

I was just wondering how much time they actually did have in the mornings, and I think it's a lot more than we all think. I'm sure I read somewhere that the latest new girl was told she had seven minutes to wash etc in the evening. It would be rasonable to assume then, that they had at least ten minutes in the morning when they also had to bath.

There are normally three or four people in the bath list. Assume there are three, and each has ten minutes. Then add another ten minutes for last bathers to get dressed, or for anyone using a broken bathroom to be fitted into the schedule. That give fourty minutes from the rising bell to the bell for private prayers.

The bath itself was probably pretty rushed, but apart from that they would have had half an hour to get dressed, brush thier hair and strip their beds. I'll admit that I don't strip my bed every morning, but I can be showered, dressed and out of the house in fifteen minutes. Fourty minutes sounds very relaxed to me - so where did their rush come from Question

(Except those with early morning practice of course - they probably were rushed to fit it all in.)

#2: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:26 pm

LOL

I do a 30 minute excursion with the dog, shower, dress, make the bed (praise be for duvets Wink

), do a swish and swipe round the bathroom, shove a load in the washing machine, have coffee while checking my emails (home and work), checking the headline news and having a quick look at the board, set the dishwasher going, say good morning to my plants, do a swish and swipe round the kitchen, check schedules with SLOC, prepare supper and am out of the house in 1 hour 30 minutes max.

#3: Author: Róisín, Location: Dublin

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:55 pm

Thanks for this Miriam! It was only this week that I've been thinking that I take way too long in the mornings to get up, eat, inject the essential coffee, dress, wash and leave. But I only take about 40 mins, so feel lot better now.

Patmac - your mornings sound insanely busy and I don't know how you do it! I'll send you an Anna for Christmas - sounds like you need her for some lie-ins Laughing

#4: Author: Nina, Location: Peterborough, UK

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:55 pm

Do I detect another Fly Baby here? Very Happy

I can be from bed to bus in fifteen minutes, but without breakfast or anything more than a wash and dress! Half an hour is do-able otherwise, so forty minutes would be fine for me. But it does seem such a rush in the books Confused

#5: Author: Joan the Dwarf, Location: Er, where am I?

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:09 pm

On my meds I need 1h30mins minimum. Joy.

#6: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:36 pm

Nina wrote:

Do I detect another Fly Baby here? Very Happy

Yep! When the children were young, I coped like clockwork + a full time job. Totally organised!

It was only after they left that I realised that most of what I did was quite unnecessary and no one cared but me! 15 minutes housework a day plus one hour on saturdays + the morning swish and swipe keeps things under control. Wink

#7: Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:59 pm

I think it's Ruey that says they only had 30 mins from when the rising well rang, so morning baths could only be 7 mins or so each to allow third bathers time to dress. And goodness knows what happened when you had five or six or more people in one dormitory!

#8: Author: Chair, Location: Kent, England

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:33 am

I can be ready to leave the house in 30 minutes but I only have to get myself ready. It would probably take me a lot longer if I had children to get ready for school as well.

#9: Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:57 am

Do you strip a bed and hump the mattress? Ensure your room is spotless? Share a bathroom with however many other people? Say your prayers? I can be ready to leave the house in 30 mins, too, but not if I have to do all that lot!

#10: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:37 am

You people are phenomenal! I've been known to leave the house in 30 min., but not without leaving many things undone. It's decidedly unhealthy.

#11: Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:42 am

I don't know about Clare, but that 30 mins doesn't include eating or anything else. Just a quick shower, dressed, hair, teeth, and then finding all my bits and pieces before flying out the door. Personally, I prefer to have 60-90 mins to have breakfast and check my email before leaving.

#12: Author: Rosie, Location: Huntingdonshire/Bangor

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:12 am

What about those with long hair? That's where most of my time goes on a morning! Well, apart form the coffee-drinking...

#13: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:13 am

It must've taken a while for the bath to fill even part way, though, even if the person before left the tap running. & there's no mention of anyone washing their hair except if they had cornflour or something in it - did everyone wash their hair at weekends?!

#14: Author: Róisín, Location: Dublin

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:14 am

Shampooing is a question I've wanted to ask about for ages! Could someone explain their attitude to shampooing please?

Re. the baths filling up, I always got the impression it was only a splash of water that they used from the tap to clean themselves with and 'bath' was just a figure of speech.

#15: Author: Rosie, Location: Huntingdonshire/Bangor

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:19 am

I didn't actually mean washing it - I don't wash mine on a morning generally as it takes too long. I just meant brushing and plaiting it.

#16: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:48 am

Róisín wrote:

Shampooing is a question I've wanted to ask about for ages! Could someone explain their attitude to shampooing please?

We have discussed this somewhere but I can't find it and anyway if I did I am useless at links.

But back in the 1950s hair would only have been washed once a week at the most. I remember as a child in the 50s Saturday night was hairwashing night as it was the only evening mum didn't work.

#17: Author: catherine, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:31 am

I've always wondered how they dried their hair - did they scrub it with a towel until dry? I can't see Matron letting them wander around with wet hair - certainly not going to bed with wet hair!

#18: Author: Rosie, Location: Huntingdonshire/Bangor

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:25 am

After the cornflower incident their hair was dried by rubbing it with towels in front of the stove, so presumably that was the normal method.

#19: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:54 pm

Rosie wrote:

I just meant brushing and plaiting it.

Mine doesn't take long - but then I don't brush it until it has a gloss that Matron would approve of.

I did, when I was a lot younger, try brushing my hair 100 times each morning and evening for a while!

Liz

#20: Author: Róisín, Location: Dublin

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:22 pm

Wouldn't brushing your hair that many times just give it split ends?

#21: Author: Catrin, Location: Wirral (holidays), Oxford (term)

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:44 pm

I have been plaiting my hair to sleep in since it reached my waist - that more than halves the time I spend re-brushing it in the morning, though it isn't advisable if one has had a bit to drink the night before.

I am generally up and out in half an hour (rising before 6 am is Not Happening) which includes washing, dressing, making porridge for breakfast, making a packed dinner and letting the dog out. I would say that the eating part of it takes the most time. But I wouldn't say the house was spotless before I left!

#22: Author: Róisín, Location: Dublin

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:04 pm

Does anyone else find it slightly annoying the way that Joey always wakes up bright and early, ready for anything, often pre-6am?!

#23: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:57 pm

I can get up at 8 am have a shower and dressed etc. and kids breakfasted to leave by 8.30 for work ( My Mam get the kids dressed and taken to school Very Happy

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On the subject of hair I very rarely even brush mine Embarassed

and putting it up is just screwing it into a bobble Embarassed

all my time goes on 2 very curly haired kids!

#24: Author: joelle, Location: lancashire, england

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:01 pm

Quote:

Does anyone else find it slightly annoying the way that Joey always wakes up bright and early, ready for anything, often pre-6am?!

i bet people there did! i always felt sorry for the people who liked their beds and were mocked for it.

#25: Author: Róisín, Location: Dublin

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:31 pm

joelle wrote:

Quote:

Does anyone else find it slightly annoying the way that Joey always wakes up bright and early, ready for anything, often pre-6am?!

i bet people there did! i always felt sorry for the people who liked their beds and were mocked for it.

Yes! I always thought, come on, that could (ie would be me!

#26: Author: Miriam, Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:33 pm

Róisín wrote:

Wouldn't brushing your hair that many times just give it split ends?

Not neccesarily. I have very long hair (below my waist) and I once counted how many strokes it took to brush it (in the same way I did every morning - getting all the tangles out etc, but nothing special). The final figure was definately over one hundred - I think it was around 137. After that I always considered '100 strokes a night' to be a euphamism for a good brushing.

With short hair it could be differnent of course.

#27: Author: Liane, Location: Manchester England

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:16 am

I like lots of time in the mornings. I am sat here now at 0815 and I dont have to leave the house til 10 this morning!

#28: Author: Joey, Location: Cambridge

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:22 am

Róisín wrote:

Does anyone else find it slightly annoying the way that Joey always wakes up bright and early, ready for anything, often pre-6am?!

No, that's one of the things that makes Joey seem like a real person to me, cos I'm a bit like that too. This morning I was up at 5.45. I like being awake in the morning.

#29: Author: Katarzyna, Location: Preston, Lancashire

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:30 pm

I never have a problem with the amount the CS girls have to do in a morning - mind you as a comparison here are two of my most typical mornings ! Smile

1. normal weekday morning - 5.30 get up go downstairs, let dogs out, yell upstairs for oh to get up, make coffee, prepare fruit and juice, 5.45 OH comes downstairs, I go up and throw on old clothes, drink coffee, 6.00 am - 7.00 am - walk dogs. Get back home, I feed dogs and start on packed lunches, OH goes up to shower and dress, 7.30, OH come back downstairs and I go up to shower and dress, ready to leave for work with all dogs away, back yard bleached, washing in machine, dishwasher on, breakfast eaten by 7.55.

2. show morning - get up anywhere between 3.30 am and 5.30 am depending on travel distance, this is an hour before we have to leave. One of us go down stairs sling dogs out and feed them, then start packing show bag whilst other showers. swop, ideally half way but in reality i get 15 minutes to shower and dress, OH gets 45 (contact lenses and hair drying - neither of which I do). clean yard, grab breakfast and coffee, leads on dogs going and into car, in beds for dogs staying! Normally we do leave on time

#30: Author: Laura, Location: London (ish)

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:58 pm

3.30am

I get up at 6.28, give myself three minutes to lie in bed and revel in how warm and cosy I am, get up and shower and wash my hair (til about 6.50), spend 10 minutes looking for clothing, eat breakfast from 7-7.13 ish, brush teeth, stick hair in bobble, and am out of the house by 7.30 (I have no idea where the last 10 minutes go. They just do!)

How long did they have for breakfast, and what time did lessons start?

#31: Author: Róisín, Location: Dublin

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:16 pm

Katarzyna wrote:

I never have a problem with the amount the CS girls have to do in a morning - mind you as a comparison here are two of my most typical mornings ! Smile

What time do you go to bed the night before? Shocked

That's another thing. The CS world went to bed very early all the time. I suppose Joey couldn't sleep forever.

#32: Author: Katarzyna, Location: Preston, Lancashire

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:35 pm

normally anywhere between 10.30 and midnight on a weeknight, show nights, well, not before 10 normally - more than likely at 10 pm I am still flapping around setting up the car, getting clothes sorted for the next day etc.

#33: Author: Róisín, Location: Dublin

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:07 am

Liane wrote:

I like lots of time in the mornings. I am sat here now at 0815 and I dont have to leave the house til 10 this morning!

*jumps up and down excitedly*

Look at my post time! And I don't have to leave the house til ten too!

*remembers that the clock on the site is strange*

I got up at 6.30am (oh so Joeyesque) and am posting at 7. Very Happy

#34: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:11 am

Hurrumph!

Some of us are already at work!

My morning routine is as quick as possible - wash, dress, hair, teeth grab bag and out of the front door!

I have bathed in 7 minutes before now - not including running it. But baths should not really be hurried - they should be filled with bubbles and relaxed in Very Happy

Liz

#35: Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!!

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:33 am

I can usually wash/shower/dress/make lunch etc in about 30 mins. As an experiment I also counted the number of brush strokes I used on my hair (thick and long as others will testify) It was just over 60 brushes last night before bead, and about 40 this morning!

#36: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:08 am

LizB wrote:

Hurrumph!

Some of us are already at work!

Liz why were you at work at 7.11am?

I can be up, showered, dressed, tea drunk, toast eaten in about 20 minutes if really pressed i.e. i've over slept. 30 minutes is easier, but usually i leave after about an hour allowing time to sit and watch the news and talk to my flatmate...he washes-up but I'd rather do that at 10pm!

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#37: Author: Emma, Location: Lichfield/Sutton Coldfield

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:16 pm

Blimey, some of you get up really early! I don't think I could cope with such early starts! I couldn't have got ready as quickly as the Chalet pupils did, it takes me about an hour from getting up to leaving the house! Rolling Eyes

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