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- Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: School Chaplains
- Replies: 97
- Views: 65435
Re: School Chaplains
The version I heard was that he was sacked after p****g on Flecker's bald head. But that is surely apocryphal.
- Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:24 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
- Replies: 143
- Views: 110438
Re: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
Amazing.! A man of many parts and from another era. Do you remember the huge picture of a cow defecating on the wall of his lab? It was there for years. The picture I mean - not the cow.
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Sailing on Moonshot
- Replies: 0
- Views: 35683
Sailing on Moonshot
So pleased to be welcoming a succession of Old Blues aboard in the last week or so: Cara Loukes to Scilly (her third attempt on Moonshot as bad weather had turned us back on two previous occasions when she was aboard); Christian Collins with Alice (his fiancée ) and then on Monday we have Marcus Com...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:53 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
- Replies: 143
- Views: 110438
Re: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
I did Chemistry and Biology via heuristics memorably with Bill Kirby; he called me Gubbins. This was pre-Seaman and Seaman's major reforms and sackings - plus Seaman's introduction of school-wide illustrated lectures on sex by the charismatic, psychiatrist Dr Matthews ("homosexuality is an ado...
- Mon May 23, 2016 10:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Any ideas about what this might be/have been?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13201
Re: Any ideas about what this might be/have been?
Thanks David. Yes Jonathan is racing northwards in HMS Ranger for the 100th anniversary of Jutland this week end..
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:09 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: When We were Very Young
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15317
Re: When We were Very Young
What fun to see this thread emerging into the light once more.
- Wed May 06, 2015 5:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Tomorrow
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3978
Tomorrow
THE DEFICIT There is a much more important deficit than any they talk about - the Deficit of Compassion. In her blog "Wonder in Aliceland" (q.v.), Alice writes: "nations are not households. If individuals are in debt, it makes sense to make cutbacks. Switch from Tesco to Aldi. Stop ru...
- Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Happy Birthday DavebytheSea !
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2016
Re: Happy Birthday DavebytheSea !
Dear John. Thank you so much. I haven't been on here for ages - I'm sorry. But delighted to know that I am still remembered here (if only by you). Very busy preparing Moonshot for launch on April 1. Two lovely YOBs antifouled her the other day and both are singing with me in Rossini's Petite Messe S...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH cross-Channel Regatta, July 11-14
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4642
Re: CH cross-Channel Regatta, July 11-14
This weekend the first of 6 yachts crewed by Old Blues will start making its way towards Dartmouth for the first-ever cross-Channel regatta organised by any school alumni organisation. We all meet up in Dartmouth on 11 July and sail for St Peter Port on Sunday 13. Deputy Headmaster Thomas Lawson wil...
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Charge - has it been changed?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29179
Re: The Charge - has it been changed?
You see what I mean, Rockfreak? There's no possibility of real debate, because their instincts are to try to trash your motives .. err, sorry, take the argument ad hominem . Sad, but all they want is to reminisce. hmm... not true! Some of us, however ancient, want to do more than reminisce. Mere me...
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH cross-Channel Regatta, July 11-14
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4642
Re: CH cross-Channel Regatta, July 11-14
CH C&SC Regatta, 2014 6 yachts about 30 OBs and counting . Gerald Harris (ColA 56-63) has been able to offer himself and Vigornia , his wonderful Halberg-Rassey 36, for our Regatta. He is based in Dartmouth and his crew will join there on 11 July and return there sometime on Wednesday July 16. ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2014 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Charge - has it been changed?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29179
Re: The Charge - has it been changed?
It's in mine (1955) and my Grandfather's (1880) as well as Jonathan's (2007)
- Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Domestic Maids
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8381
Re: Domestic Maids
A Polish maid appeared for a bit. It was expedient that a boy and her left the premises. ... and there were the Sicker nurses ..... in his book Growing up in A War (Amazon £4.69 and an excellent read about CH), Bryan Magee rather touchingly describes how a young nurse took pity on the injured Magee...
- Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Re: Pocket-Money at CH.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4461
Re: Pocket-Money at CH.
Genuinely can't remember the exact amounts but I seem to remember it being about £30 per term by the end of my time there in 1990. From 1947-1955 it was, I think, 30/- a term (30 shillings for anyone born later) but when Jonathan was there from 2005-7 we gave him the minimum of £20 a term. He never...
- Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: World War 2, CH Teachers, etc
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10875
Re: World War 2, CH Teachers, etc
... and how Mr Haslehurst got me through O-level Latin, the Lord only knows. However, the only sex education I received at CH was in his lessons - it all emerged when attempting to translate a piece about the rape of the Sabine women.