Twenty years on

[thermalsatsuma]

A slightly strange experience today. I had to go to the hospital for a check up and after negotiating the lift that decided it wanted to go all the way to the top floor before coming back down to where I needed to be I made my way to the correct department.

I waited for a few minutes before going to see the consultant and after he had examined me, he asked me if I had been to Sheffield University and specifically if I had been a resident of Tapton Hall. It suddenly clicked that he had lived on the same corridor as me for a year, twenty or so years ago.

Crikey. Talk about a blast from the past. I put my name on Friends Reunited a few years ago, but I didn’t recognize any of the alumni from that era. In some ways it seems like yesterday, and in others it feels like a different world. Ah well, the past is a different country.

In other news, fencing tonight was excellent, sweaty fun with lots of rapier and buckler vs rapier and dagger action in preparation for the forthcoming assessments. Hoorah – I love fencing!

Comments

[badriya.livejournal.com]

Tapton Hall wasn't built when I went there. I graduated in 1968 and there was just one women's hall then, Halifax. IThere werew I think three men's halls, Sorby, Earnshaw and possibly Stephenson. i don't remember that one but saw it when I googled. I can't find the name of the warden of Halifax though. She was a nice old lady. We had formal dinners three times a week, wearing gowns. I liked being in hall better than digs or a flat. I didn't get into hall until my second year.