Halesowen tartan

[Philip S. Tibbetts]

I agree it shouldn't have been sold! I cannot think that the need for student accommodation has gone down at all! Plus I am constantly bombarded by requests for donations for this and that from the Uni so I wonder what they did with the money!

But as to its photo fame - who can forget its appearance in the opening sequence of Chariots of Fire even though they were trying to pass it off as a hotel in Broadstairs!

I guess most residences are now co-ed so to speak - I well remember how lady visitors had to leave on the stroke of midnight or else!

I had an academic daughter girlfriend too - but I was also an academic polygamist several times over!

Worse still all the new accomodation the Uni builds tends to be pretty expensive, even halls they re-open like Hepburn.

I worked as a sort of scullery maid in Hamilton for a while and one of the chefs was an extra in that famous chariots scene!

My first girlfriend happened to be the academic mother of a lot of my friends, which earnt me some colourful nicknames! :P I had a really nice bunch of kids, many of whom i keep in contact with now. I only dated one of them (honest!) and I have two academic wives. Funnily enough my bilogical sister is my academic grand-daughter!

I wouldn't be surprised if were related in some distant way McClef!

[Martin]

Philip,

Just watched the midlands today clip online, I'm afraid I missed it when it went out over air.

Congratulations to you, both on your tartan design, and for wearing the kilt here in the midlands.

I'm not a million miles away from you. I live near Redditch. Kilt wearers are few and far beween in this neck of the woods, so I'm delighted to find another!

Oh and by the way, welcome to Xmarks!

Martin

[Philip S. Tibbetts]

Philip,

Just watched the midlands today clip online, I'm afraid I missed it when it went out over air.

Congratulations to you, both on your tartan design, and for wearing the kilt here in the midlands.

I'm not a million miles away from you. I live near Redditch. Kilt wearers are few and far beween in this neck of the woods, so I'm delighted to find another!

Oh and by the way, welcome to Xmarks!

Martin

Excellent to find that I'm not the only Kilted Midlander! So you had any thoughts about making a Redditch tartan?! Worcestershire maybe?!

[McClef]

I wouldn't be surprised if were related in some distant way McClef!

It's entirely possible Philip!

I had 8 academic children in total and if they also had 8 each then over the 16 possible academic generations to now I could have a theoretical academic descendent count of 3,518,437,208,832!

Clearly that's not possible! But it does indicate I have an extremely high chance of being an academic ancestor for just about every recent student!

[Philip S. Tibbetts]

It's entirely possible Philip!

I had 8 academic children in total and if they also had 8 each then over the 16 possible academic generations to now I could have a theoretical academic descendent count of 3,518,437,208,832!

Clearly that's not possible! But it does indicate I have an extremely high chance of being an academic ancestor for just about every recent student!

I had 8 children too

I've decided from now on I will think of you as my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather. Or something like that anyway!