Stash!

For the uninitiated, "stash" is basically wearable items (often hoodies) with your college crest, boaty nickname, rugby team, society, position of power, name, or similar "I-am-a-member-of-such-and-such-a-group" tag on it. You have, no doubt, encountered the "leavers' hoodie" from school sixth forms? Well, Cambridge does that, too, except bigger, better, and not so much when you leave as when you join. As you might have gathered from the above, pretty much any large group of people will have "stash" - this year, the first-year Caius medics have these blindingly white hoodies (white and hoodies should not be combined, for future reference) with their initials on the sleeves. The Cambridge Union's stewards and Directors got their stash recently. Newnham stash ranged from hoodies to rugby shirts to t-shirts to bags to knickers (you wish I were kidding). IT HAS ARRIVED.

Do you want to know why I have bothered to post this? I have bothered to post this because of a conversation I had yesterday related to my Newnham stash, in particular. I have a t-shirt. It has Newnham's crest on it, in the obvious place.

"Newnham owns my left breast right now, and I'm happy with that!"
"Who owns your right breast?"
"I do! It's my breast!"

This becomes more amusing when you consider I had this conversation walking along a road at lunchtime with lots of people I do not know around me. It becomes weird when I tell you I had taken no mind-altering chemicals that day.

Love,
Felicity xxx