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by keibat
Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:38 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: teaching relevance in later life
Replies: 24
Views: 43381

Re: teaching relevance in later life

Dear Rockfreak David, 2 points to reply to: 1) the loud bangs that have messed up my audio-neuroreceptors were experienced at the *excellent* experimental Wonderlab at the Science Museum in South Kensington, 4 years ago. A truly great place to take kids of a wide range of ages, with loads of hands-o...
by keibat
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:05 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Accents at CH Horsham
Replies: 14
Views: 13732

Re: Accents at CH Horsham

Jabod, a quibble: There ain't no such thing as 'accentless'. What you presumably mean is that your accent is that of your social surroundings, so it doesn't stand out as 'different'.
by keibat
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:02 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: teaching relevance in later life
Replies: 24
Views: 43381

Re: teaching relevance in later life

Fascinating to hear folk's very different stories. At CH (mid-50s to early 60s), my natural inclination was to English (both of my parents were English, i e Eng Lit teachers). When in the ?Little Erasmus we had to choose between German, Geography or Greek – what a hilarious alliteration! but not bad...
by keibat
Fri Dec 23, 2022 9:18 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Accents at CH Horsham
Replies: 14
Views: 13732

Re: Accents at CH Horsham

I know I arrived at CH with a moderate Yorkshire accent, by deduction from an incident a year later, when I was talking about where we went on our holidays. I mentioned a village in the Yorkshire Dales where members of my family went, Castle Bolton – and pronounced the placename with a proper Yorksh...
by keibat
Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:52 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Was Rock 'n' Roll Banned at CH in the Fifties?
Replies: 29
Views: 8986

Re: Was Rock 'n' Roll Banned at CH in the Fifties?

I have no recollection of any kind of music being banned in Barnes B mid-fifties to early-sixties, and there was at least one, I think more than one, private radio set in use. I remember being keen on Buddy Holly, but also on the relatively brief period when instrumentals were big in British music –...
by keibat
Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:11 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: A history essay topic at CH in 1956
Replies: 16
Views: 29177

Re: A history essay topic at CH in 1956

Fascinating, like all What-If counterhistories ... But I love the provocativeness of the question. Cherny was my housemaster, but never taught me (otherwise I suspect I might have become a real historian instead of a self-taught amateur). I like Katherine's point about the monasteries, since without...
by keibat
Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:25 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: School Chaplains
Replies: 97
Views: 56727

Re: School Chaplains

Apologies, Rockfreak, only just seen this. Fair question, but I'm unable to give a reliable answer. I suspect, but could be drastically wrong, that Pullin was probably more liberal about the New Testament than he will have felt able to reveal. It was his teaching that the OT was not to be taken lite...
by keibat
Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:31 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The CCF Signals Section
Replies: 19
Views: 7548

Re: The CCF Signals Section

Not from Norfolk - a Yorkshireman from the flat parts of the East Riding. I have no idea at all why he called me Coypu!
by keibat
Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:23 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?
Replies: 118
Views: 51406

Re: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?

06:55 was when the wake-up bell rang. I've always been an early-morning person, and usually woke around 06:30, and so one of my roles was waking people up earrly if they hadn't finished their prep - all they had to do was turn vertical their house-number card that sat in a little frame on the foot b...
by keibat
Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:12 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: School Chaplains
Replies: 97
Views: 56727

Re: School Chaplains

I'm intrigued by the statement that Pullin was a literalist and Whitfeld [not WhitfIeld, I think?] a rationalist ... I remember having Divinity classes with Pullin on the Old Testament, where he was very clear that it was NOT to be all taken literally - an understanding that I have been very gratefu...
by keibat
Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:57 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Relationships - Grecian / UF
Replies: 42
Views: 16810

Re: Relationships - Grecian / UF

Back for a moment to the Relationships - Grecian /UF topic: my parents were at the same grammar school in Hull in the 1930s (Malet Lambert), and started dating when my dad was I guess in the Lower Sixth; my mum was 4 years younger, or 3 1/2 to be precise; and no one has ever suggested in my hearing ...
by keibat
Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:37 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The CCF Signals Section
Replies: 19
Views: 7548

Re: The CCF Signals Section

My experience of the Signals with Uncle was at the end of the 50s and very early 60s. I'm intrigued by some of the descriptions above about his lab = mead, pets refuge, etc, which I have no recollection of at all; I really only encountered him (and Chlorine) through the Signals. I also have no recol...
by keibat
Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:41 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GRACE
Replies: 71
Views: 32989

Re: GRACE

I recall one occasion when a Jewish Grecian (the name escapes me) modulated the closing formula to: "Through Jesus Christ your Lord" – and was reprimanded, though perhaps not punished more concretely. Frankly – as a practising Christian both then and now – I think this was an honest and ra...
by keibat
Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:50 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP Michael Scuffil
Replies: 10
Views: 3653

Re: RIP Michael Scuffil

I was at his funeral / memorial ceremony today, with family and friends. A very Scuffilian occasion - the coffin, with his great broad-brimmed hat, and a birdwatcher’s manual atop it; and photographs all around the chapel of rest, from Michael as a baby to Michael as a grandfather, but also includin...
by keibat
Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:42 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP Michael Scuffil
Replies: 10
Views: 3653

RIP Michael Scuffil

Following a serious illness, Michael Scuffil – an assiduous contributor to this forum – has passed away, shortly before his 75th birthday. His funeral is being held on Thursday 13 June, in Opladen, Leverkusen, where he has lived for some fifty years.