With term starting on a Friday, the Boarders got the first boarding weekend of 2006 off to a bracing start with a hike to the Hodder.   Our Boarders are a hardy bunch and some, not satisfied with the age-old passtime of stone skimming, preferred to test the water and risk a damp walk home. 

After some hot food and drinks, it was off to the Centeniaries Theatre to watch "War of the Worlds" on the new high-tech equipment which had been installed over the Christmas holidays.  The Boarders appreciated the difference in quality - the colour and sound is much improved and we can now get something very close to a real cinema experience.  In fact, we are told that Tom Cruise could be heard right across the car park during the louder parts of the film.