What habit of yours would Matey dislike?
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#1: What habit of yours would Matey dislike? Author: Ruth, Location: Lincolnshire, England PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:25 am

OK, what would Matron dislike most about you? Mine would be that my clothes drawers are never in a pristine state. And that I always manage to tear my clothes in such a way that it would be almost ridiculous to mend them and I don't sew!

 

#2:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:55 am

*lol* Excellent questions! My hands are frequently in my pockets, and I'm not great at making my bed...

 

#3:  Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:36 am

I tend to throw out tights/pop socks with ladders in, rather than darning them, I'm afraid, and I read lying down.I also eat too many unhealthy things although that doesn't seem to cause me to have nightmares or to walk in my sleep as she might expect it to.

 

#4:  Author: Helen C, Location: Sheffield/Luton PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:35 pm

I think she would have a heart atack if she saw how messy my bedroom is.

 

#5:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:36 pm

Matey would have conniptions if she could see my chest of drawers and the chaos therein (my wardrobe is only tidy because I've begun the spring clearout). She would not like the way my hair looks unbrushed, even when I've just brushed it. And she'd hate that I read in bed, in fact, I rarely read anywhere else. But, she'd love me for doing my mending unasked. I just sewed some buttons on to the cardi I'm wearing this morning. And I even darn my stockings.

 

#6:  Author: joelle, Location: lancashire, england PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:38 pm

i cant add up my faults she wouldnt like! i think shed ask for me to be thrown out Confused

 

#7:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:35 pm

I read in bed. I would refuse to take cold baths. I will not darn socks and don't wear stockings (not tights). I will throw a tantrum if she tries to give me castor oil. Shocked

 

#8:  Author: Rebecca, Location: Kendal/Oxford PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:38 pm

Pretty much everything listed above! Especially reading in bed, an inability to sew or darn, almost living with hands in pockets, and my drawers are permanently in a right state!

 

#9:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:41 pm

My bedroom including chest of drawers a complete mess My inability to be on time. I sit on my bed a lot. I go to bed late and get up late. Hate cold showres\baths. And those are just for starters!

 

#10:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:20 pm

-the fact that my bedroom looks like a tornado hit it (on the other hand my bed is always either airing or properly made - or I'm sleeping in it). -I read in bed (but I do have a 'husband' that I use when reading) -hands are often in my pockets (mum tried her best to kick that habit - and did threaten to sew up the pockets)

 

#11:  Author: Gabrielle, Location: Washington DC PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:15 pm

Where to start. Maybe the fact that I'm sitting on my unmade bed reading my e-mails in my very messy room Very Happy I am not a neat person, I'm just not.

 

#12:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:35 pm

Yes, all of those! Reading in bed is fundamental. Opposing the Law of Entropy is futile. (Yes, I know sufficient energy can overcome it temporarily, but I don't have that much!) Pockets are meant to be used. Baths must be nice and warm and take MUCH longer than 5 minutes. Doctors are to be avoided if at all possible. I use "darn" only as an expletive. Confused

 

#13:  Author: Emily, Location: Land of White Coats and Stethoscopes. PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:42 pm

Kathy, I LOVE that explanation for messiness! There is no way I could do everything they have to do in the morning in the allocated 5 seconds, even when I'm consciously hurrying showers are at least 10 minutes Embarassed

 

#14:  Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:52 pm

Same as everyone else really Embarassed especially reading in bed and I'm awful at getting up before 8am- although I can be up and out by 8.30 including a shower(I'm quite proud of this) I can get 3 of us out by 8.45!

 

#15:  Author: Jools, Location: Sadly Broke PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:19 pm

Very untidy Rarelydust my bedroom Hopeless at sewing am waiting for either of my offspring to show a talent in this direction, it would definitely be fostered. Regularly read in bed and love long hot baths, preferably with a book and glass of wine or cup of tea. However I can and do get up promptly in the mornings

 

#16:  Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:24 pm

most of the above - and i am completely unable to read sitting up in bed (i wouldn't be able to hack the bedjacket!) i'm oh so utidy log, hot baths with a book i sit/read/lie/work on my bed finite!

 

#17:  Author: Helen P, Location: Cheshire PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:29 pm

Are any of us on the CBB actually tidy by instinct?! I'm another one who is totally disorganised and messy. Do you think we were drawn to the CS books because of the lovely organised lifestyle they portrayed, which we would have all loved to be like? Something to aspire to? I think that was, and is, the case for me. I especially love all the little housekeeping details in Rescue. As for the question, I can only say the same as everyone else. Reading in bed, long hot baths, sitting on beds for long periods, hatred of, and dreadfulness at, sewing!

 

#18:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:50 pm

Helen P wrote:
Are any of us on the CBB actually tidy by instinct?! I'm another one who is totally disorganised and messy.
*tentatively raises hand* My drawers are anyway.

 

#19:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:52 am

Im another messy one who loves lying/sitting on her bed, I actually wrote all my uni essays on my bed....... And lovely hot bubble baths, bliss.

 

#20:  Author: Ray, Location: Bristol, England PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:29 am

Helen P wrote:
Are any of us on the CBB actually tidy by instinct?! I'm another one who is totally disorganised and messy.
I'm very tidy minded and the fact that my desk/room/whatever is untidy always bothers me. Though seldom quite enough for me to actually do anything about it! Ray *knowing Matey would hate me*

 

#21:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:35 am

I'm fairly tidy and I do make my bed every morning!! But couldn't cope with not reading bed, you'll frequently find my hands in my pockets, I don't sew (although I can turn up trousers) or dust, and baths are hot and long!

 

#22:  Author: Betty Sue, Location: Sydney, Australia PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:56 pm

I think I'd be the one to finally drive Matey to early retirement. My hankies are clean but never ironed. I can't sew. I never make my bed, or air the mattress. My drawers are untidy. My hands are constantly in my pockets. I leave water all over the bathroom floor, and I take far too long in the bath. I forget to take my cardi on cold days. And I'd drive Miss Annersley crazy too - running in corridors, speaking out of turn, my voice is definitely not "sweet and low", I say "can" instead of "may", slide down bannisters, put my elbows on the table...

 

#23:  Author: Caroline OSullivan, Location: Reading, Berkshire, UK PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:04 pm

Apart from being very untidy and unorganised, the thing about me that Matey would find most annoying is that I wouldn't be able to drink either milk or milky coffee. I can't see her letting me have strong black coffee Sad

 

#24:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:18 am

Helen P wrote:
Are any of us on the CBB actually tidy by instinct?! I'm another one who is totally disorganised and messy.
I was, once, but then I was prescribed something for my OCD, and now can leave rooms untidied, lights on, and taps unchecked like the rest of the world. Hurrah! Now I live in a tip and the place looks like it's been recently burgled. But the good thing is that I don't scrub the skin off my hands in boiling hot water. That has to be a good thing. Wish I had a tidy instinct left though.

 

#25:  Author: Bunty, Location: London PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:30 pm

I have to confess to messing up my skin with cosmetics, and not just ones I pilfer from the acting cupboard!

 

#26:  Author: Alex, Location: Manchester PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:23 pm

I read in bed. I read in the bath (not sure Matey would be able to cope with that). I have a tendency to throw my clothes on the floor when I take them off although I do usually pick them up in the morning. The reason my room is messy is because the university thinks I only need two shelves. One is for all my textbooks, folders, etc (this has to be the top one as the lower one does not have an A4 sized distance before the next one) and the other one is for everything else.

 

#27:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:50 pm

Caroline OSullivan wrote:
Apart from being very untidy and unorganised, the thing about me that Matey would find most annoying is that I wouldn't be able to drink either milk or milky coffee. I can't see her letting me have strong black coffee Sad
Oh, bleurgh, I forgot about the coffee. Not a big fan of coffee, and certainly not wanting to drink it every day. And I don't reckon much to hot milk either, and I liked it even less as a child.

 

#28:  Author: Tiphany,  PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:30 pm

Helen P wrote:
Do you think we were drawn to the CS books because of the lovely organised lifestyle they portrayed, which we would have all loved to be like? Something to aspire to? I think that was, and is, the case for me. I especially love all the little housekeeping details in Rescue.
Absolutely! I would so love to be organised and tidy, but I don't seem to be able to manage it - if I'd been brought up in a strict boarding school, maybe I'd be better... I'd love to have a routine enforced, too, but I can't do it for myself, I'm too lazy. Grrrr. I quite often get up at midnight and go and eat something...I really can't sleep when I'm hungry. Matey would have a fit, and then I'd compound my sins by refusing to drink castor oil she's have to force me, and I'd fight...

 

#29:  Author: jennifer, Location: Sunny California PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:17 pm

Well, I'll add to the reading in bed, hot baths (and only in the evening), the current state of my room and drawers, sitting on the bed, a fundamental inability to *make* the bed. When I had a futon, I did flip the mattress though. Plus, I'm a confirmed night owl. *Plus* Poor posture (particularly while reading) Slang (I won't even go into some of the other language I use on appropriate occasions) Lack of a ladylike voice or demeanor She'd probably have a fit over my choice of reading too. I read Gone With the Wind when I was twelve, and started in on Stephen Donaldson at about the same age. And, as an adult, the only person who can *make* me take medication is my doctor. I'm not swallowing any random calming doses... Actually, about the only thing she'd like is my ability to get ready really quickly in the morning.

 

#30:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:53 am

jennifer wrote:
Actually, about the only thing she'd like is my ability to get ready really quickly in the morning.
Yes, she'd like that about me too, but she would be less pleased to know that the ten minutes from waking to walking out the front door did not include a cold bath, or bedmaking, or taking a good breakfast. I'm glad I don't have that kind of morning anymore.

 

#31:  Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:01 am

I was standing at the front door with no coat on this morning. Then I walked to work without wearing a shawl fastened across my chest, nailed boots or snow goggles. I'd love to've had one of those elaborate snowfights with forts and prisoners: we never got beyond chucking snowballs at each other in the playground!

 

#32:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:24 am

Oh, I can do one worse than that, we overslept today, my daughter has an exam, and I threw her into a taxi, unfed, half dressed and entirely unprepared for it about twenty minutes before it began. I offered the driver a tenner if her could get there there in ten minutes. I wonder if he made it. I forgot to throw her coat in with her, and it snowed here yesterday. Her bus pass is in her coat pocket, so she'll likely be walking back from school in the snow in her cardigan. I should never have said "I don't do that anymore" in my last post. Will my daugher ever forgive me? I feel that this is one of those stories that will pass into family legend and be repeated without recourse to the statute of limitations. I am a bad mother. *hangs head in shame*

 

#33:  Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:17 am

(MissPrint) No doubt her friends will think it really funny, as a contrast to their parents who have been fussing round them all morning We keep cereal bars in for such emergencies as a breakfast you can eat on the way!

 

#34:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:56 am

Tha taxi got stuck in traffic and she was a couple of minutes late. She certainly made an entrance! But the exam went okay, and the weather stayed fine. Tomorrow's exam is in the afternoon. We can be up and ready by noon, surely. Her best friend thought she'd funked it. She said her stomach was so churny she couldn't have eaten a thing. Though, as I didn't receive the change from the tenner, I'm guessing her appetite recovered soon after the exam.

 

#35:  Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:12 am

MissPrint wrote:
Tha taxi got stuck in traffic and she was a couple of minutes late. She certainly made an entrance! But the exam went okay, and the weather stayed fine. Tomorrow's exam is in the afternoon. We can be up and ready by noon, surely. Her best friend thought she'd funked it. She said her stomach was so churny she couldn't have eaten a thing. Though, as I didn't receive the change from the tenner, I'm guessing her appetite recovered soon after the exam.
Sounds like it was better that she was late as it didn't give her time to panic too much Very Happy Teenage offspring voluntarily giving change Shocked Wink

 

#36:  Author: Donna, Location: Liverpool PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:32 pm

hmmm, I think Matey would have just hated me full stop. Can't get out of bed easily (it's far too warm under the duvet!), would NEVER have a cold bath, and certainly couldn't manage one in the time allowed in the CS, I would have hated the importance placed on sports and Matey would have hated the fact that i prefer to read. I have to be the untidiest person I know (and yes, I'm counting you lot among that) so the chances of keeping my drawers and cubey tidy would be very slim and I don't particularly like coffee and only eat a very light breakfast (I make up for it later on!) I don't think I would have got on veyr well at the CS at all! Smile

 

#37:  Author: Ruth, Location: Lincolnshire, England PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:52 am

I'd forgotten about the coffee!!! I won't drink tea or coffee with milk in and love my coffee strong with no sugar!! Also, as my bedroom is like a cupboard (I live in a static caravan - the house is not big enough for the whole family!) I sit on my bed all the time - watching a video, reading, writing, using the computer etc. and, horror of horrors, I stand on it to get books out of the overhead cupboards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I cannot sew - not neatly anyway. My idea of mending my quilt cover when I tore it was to pull the edges together and sew a ridge on the outside!!! What would Matey have done to me???!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

#38:  Author: RroseSelavy, Location: Oxford, UK PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:36 pm

I challenge even Matey to separate me from my duvet on a cold morning. ("We have to get up at 6:30? You mean there's a 6:30 a.m. too??") Plus being generally unladylike and completely not undertsanding the concept of hankies (yuk!). And I think the Potteries accent I had when school-aged would have raised some eyebrows Wink But she would love my obsessive tidiness... though I would probably get thrown out of her room for alphabetising her cupboard of nefarious chemicals.

Incidentally, what did Matey have against pony tails? I seem to remember the girls being shocked by Eustacia having one, and giggling over her reaction should Mary-Lou decide to wear one. Were they considered 'vulgar' or what?

 

#39:  Author: Katie, Location: A Yorkshire lass in London PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:39 pm

I know Joey almost had a fit when Len decided she wanted one in Future. I think that her reasoning was that it would get much knottier that way than it would in a plait, but it did seem a little excessive!

 

#40:  Author: Kate, Location: Ireland PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:59 pm

There seemed to be a difference made between "pony-tails" and hair "tied back" which I don't fully understand... A lot of girls tie their hair back "in a long tail" and it's clear that this is different to plaiting, but it's only a pony-tail that is objected to. I suppose a pony-tail is tied higher up on your head? Anyone like to shed light on this for me?

 

#41:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:05 am

Although for me a pony-tail is any bunch of hair tied close to the head and allowed to flow freely otherwise, I also got the impression that the pony-tails scorned by EBD were the then stylish, high on the head variety as opposed to those tied at the nape of the neck. See, for example, the Barbie doll picture in http://www.highheelsnewsletter.com/GlamourYears.html.

 

#42:  Author: Piggy, Location: Cambridge PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:56 pm

I've always made my bed and my drawers (chest of ) are as tidy as circumstances permit. However - my drawers (briefs) and socks almost all have holes in and are never mended or thrown out until Nemesis (going home for Christmas) threatens. Embarassed Also, when I was the age of the average Middle my nose was left to drip or plugged by a finger, and I never took baths (or showers). Neutral Matey would probably have forcibly bathed me for my own good. bawling

 

#43:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:56 pm

Kathy_S wrote:
Although for me a pony-tail is any bunch of hair tied close to the head and allowed to flow freely otherwise, I also got the impression that the pony-tails scorned by EBD were the then stylish, high on the head variety as opposed to those tied at the nape of the neck. See, for example, the Barbie doll picture in http://www.highheelsnewsletter.com/GlamourYears.html.


Sadly, I can't open the Barbie page, but I would say that the pony tail is tied up higher on the head and hangs away from the head in much the same way that a pony tail hangs from a pony Neutral , where as if the hair is 'tied back', it is just tied at the nape of the neck.

 

#44:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:19 pm

You have to go http://www.highheelsnewsletter.com and go to Archives, then Glamour Years - I think it's the last pic

 

#45:  Author: Nicci, Location: UK PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:01 pm

I think Matey would hate how untidy I am (I currently can't see my bedroom floor), but would likethe fact that I can bath and shower in under 5 minutes, and I don't mind cold baths Shocked . I usually have a hanky but its rarely clean, I can't sew and I always go outside barefooted and without a coat/jumper.

 

#46:  Author: kateeee,  PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:21 pm

Matey would hate my slang, my grammer, my general inability to keep tidy, the fact that I never carry a hanky, I don't even own an iron and at 14 I could barely sew a button on so that it would stay on for more than 5 minutes - this was cured when I had to sew about 100 onto a costume!!

But the thing I'd get on worst with at the CS is constantly being surrounded by people. Sometimes you just need some time alone.

 

#47:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:15 pm

kateeee wrote:
But the thing I'd get on worst with at the CS is constantly being surrounded by people. Sometimes you just need some time alone.


I was reading Eustacia and got to thinking about this point and why so many people on the board (here and GO) think that she gets a hard deal. She is described on a number of occasions as a bookish person and the inference from that is the desire to spend time alone in order to read. (The idea of spending time alone seems to be frowned on during the whole series. Think of Jack Maynard telling off Melanie Lucas in Future).

It seems reasonable to assume (surprise!) that every person here is also what EBD would call a 'bookish' person, and thus we sympathise with the person who shares our favourite pastime (or one of them). I imagine that one of the other things that horrifies us is when the Matrons take the books away for early-morning reading (Princess and New House). I suspect that if a very sporty person read the CS, they would not sympathise with Eustacia at all, but rather with the school getting stuck inside during the snowy weather. Each to their own.

And in fact there are points (at least in the hb) that shows Eustacia is aware that she is breaking rules by stealing keys, but that is a completely separate issue.

 

#48:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:04 am

I think Melanie got into trouble more because she went off on her own without letting anybody know that she was going and where, rather than the actual desire to be on her own.

Thinking about how much Jo loved reading, its surprising she didn't show a tendency to find a quiet corner to hide in with a book - mind you, I suppose she had plenty of time when she was tucked up in bed with an illness or injury of some kind.

Liz

 

#49:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:40 am

I think one of the proofs that she was getting stronger was the fact that she was forever on the go. It seems to me that the girls got a certain amount of time for reading (rest period, free time on Saturdays and Sundays) and perhaps that was enough for all except people like Eustacia.

 

#50:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash/Aberystwyth PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:45 am

I always sympathised with Eustacia (and Mary-Lou, to begin with) needing time alone. Even in free time they were together - I'd end up escaping to the dormy, forbidden or not! I don't think Matey would like me very much.... on the plus side, I am tidy!

 

#51:  Author: Sarah_K, Location: St Albans/Leicester PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:24 pm

I was thinking of this thread yesterday morning, I think if Matey had seen me I'd have been in SEVERE trouble.

I woke up lateish (10:30) and turned over to go back to sleep. When I woke up again I went and made myself breakfast (bagels and cream cheese) and brought it back to bed where I ate it whilst reading. I then realised I was going to be late so got up and dressed in record time and ran out of the room leaving my bed unmade and my plate on the side Embarassed

I'm not even sure how many rules that would have broken!

 

#52:  Author: Bookwormsarah, Location: Cambridge, UK PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:23 pm

I'll sign up to the messy bedroom/drawers brigade (and am bitterly ashamed at the state of it) and I couldn't not read in bed/bath; I would also refuse point blank to drink anything milky. I once sat in front of an undrunk banana milkshake at a friend's house for two meals (aged about 6). It had been produced that morning when asked if I wanted a drink. I didn't drink it, so it was produced again at lunchtime when the boy I was playing with had blackcurrent. I was really thirsty after lots of running around, and had a drink out of the bathroom tap... I later discovered that plant pots have their uses.

Matey would probably disapprove of some of my clothing, and *definitely* of some of my underwear. When I had long hair my plait(s) were always hairy, and even now my parting is practically never straight.

I feel like a lost cause Chalet-wise!

 

#53:  Author: Kathryn, Location: Kyabram (north of Melb) PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:03 pm

I might as well admit my lengthy offences that Matey would hate:
-only make my bed so it looks neat (to detract from all the clothes lying around the room)
-have to read in bed
-drawers are rarely shut let alone tidy
-wake up and get up when I feel like it
-only do the dishes so it is possible to eat another meal (only sometimes though!)
-study is an absolute pig-sty, though there is more floor than paper at the moment
-sometimes stay in pjs for most of the day (even when not sick)
-can't stand milk
-haven't drunk coffee for about 2 months
-need a lot of alone time
....and the list goes on.

 

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