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by Avon
Fri Nov 10, 2023 3:24 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: St Matthew’s Day
Replies: 14
Views: 61501

Re: St Matthew’s Day

Actually, St Matthew’s Day was the first time that I came to realise that there was such a thing as a mixer-sized can for fizzy drinks. The Corporation of London was so hard up that it couldn’t run to a normal can and so we all got the teeny-weeny cans.
by Avon
Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:09 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: St Matthew’s Day
Replies: 14
Views: 61501

Re: St Matthew’s Day

20p. And a whole lot of standing around.

The really profitable gig was selling programmes for the Lord Mayor’s Show. That was nearly £50 and about 1/2lb of tobacco.
by Avon
Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:26 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
Replies: 21
Views: 102629

Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years

I went from Aston Webb’s CH to Aston Webb’s BRNC and they were spookily similar, except that at the time BRNC (Hawke Division at least) was quite well looked after whereas I vividly remember how tired and jury-rigged the boarding houses at Horsham were. Now it’s Dartmouth hitting the news for being ...
by Avon
Thu Aug 24, 2023 6:56 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
Replies: 21
Views: 102629

Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years

I remember her, sad to read the backstory.

Our resident scratched record will be along shortly with a book recommendation.
by Avon
Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:22 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Richard Poulton has died
Replies: 3
Views: 8906

Re: Richard Poulton has died

It seems fitting that his passing is recorded in this sub forum on the abuse cases. The school has since closed the hyperlink to the original statement it made after Dobbie’s conviction. But it did say at the time: “it is clear that abuse at Christ Hospital was enabled not only by the perpetrators w...
by Avon
Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:27 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Opinions on the recent ‘Final Band Parade’ Videos
Replies: 14
Views: 11484

Re: Opinions on the recent ‘Final Band Parade’ Videos

As I reflect, I think it’s remarkable that we bestowed so much ceremony on receiving such dreadful food (in the time of Mrs. Keeley, mass-poisoner). ISTR much worse transgressions than this in my time. We started one band parade under the Big School arches and ‘buzzed’ the band. PeA stopped opposite...
by Avon
Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:11 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Opinions on the recent ‘Final Band Parade’ Videos
Replies: 14
Views: 11484

Re: Opinions on the recent ‘Final Band Parade’ Videos

The less martial pageantry the better IMHO. I can see the value of doing it say, once a week, but it was a chore doing it daily.
by Avon
Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:06 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
Replies: 7
Views: 5973

Re: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)

I've posted elsewhere about how our housemaster in the 50s called the recently pubescent pupils in to his study to warn us about homosexual liaisons, it being illegal at the time. I remember how many fancied other housemates but were all paranoid about turning out gay - which then could be the kiss...
by Avon
Mon May 09, 2022 9:04 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky in the FT
Replies: 38
Views: 33091

Re: Freaky in the FT

As for one's interactions with those who supported Brexit and those who voted to remain, it is becoming increasingly difficult to identify the former group as they have gone so very quiet (including on this forum)! Within my (extended) family, as far as I know it was only a small number of the elde...
by Avon
Sun Mar 06, 2022 7:47 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Films at CH, 1956-1960
Replies: 17
Views: 40835

Re: Films at CH, 1956-1960

Anyone remember the 1985 screening of Beverly Hills Cop?
by Avon
Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:56 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 449202

Re: Puke Fight!

I've commented on this before, but I would be interested to see if any of my peers would think that I'm looking back through rose-tinted spectacles. I have no recollection of this sort of thing going on in the 60's. Rigid hierarchy, yes. But physical punishment by monitors had been banned the year ...
by Avon
Sun Jan 30, 2022 9:34 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Elizabeth Cairncross
Replies: 129
Views: 166817

Re: Elizabeth Cairncross

Unfortunately no it cannot. In order to obtain access to it, I had to approach the trial Judge, Christine Henson QC and state my reason. The reason I gave was that I wished to investigate her fitness for a role as Chair of Governors at Salisbury Cathedral School. I undertook not to distribute the t...
by Avon
Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:27 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky in the FT
Replies: 38
Views: 33091

Re: Freaky in the FT

I for my part feel slightly differently; I shall not let Brexit be bygones. I don’t accept the vote. Mendacious people motivated by their own gain swayed an electorate through deceit and false promises. The result will render Britain irrelevant in the years to come and its people (including my child...
by Avon
Sun Jan 02, 2022 6:31 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky in the FT
Replies: 38
Views: 33091

Re: Freaky in the FT

I’m not one to generally pull people up on their spelling but it’s generally ‘Fuhrer’. The reason I do so on this occasion is that it suggests that you aren’t exactly boned up on things Germanic but sufficient to have a rather jaundiced view of Frau Merkel? I have a number of German friends who woul...
by Avon
Wed Dec 29, 2021 6:46 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky in the FT
Replies: 38
Views: 33091

Re: Freaky in the FT

sejintenej wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 4:30 pm Unfortunately that is what I was saying about that unmentionable German woman for a long time.
Alice Weidel or Frauke Petry?