Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Noel Erskine: Infamous sitter-on of penguin bashers - lol. B 13 is Paul someone; directed the house play "Chips with Everything" in about 1974; had the first study on the left as you came out of the dayroom [opposite Sid Warmsley] and was a big fan of Hawkwind, esp. Silver Machine. Jock - ...

I interviwed a bloke once for a role as Audit Manager on a Government contract; as was my habit then I asked him to tell me something fascinating about himself, he replied "I'm 47 and I still find farting hilarious." Needless to say he got the job...

Although I wasn't in Maine A - I believe PPdeWB was known as "Prickly Penis de Wobbly B*ll*cks"

Sign outside a hairdressers in Worthing "All major credit cards excepted"

Hand written sign on a notice board in IBM North Harbour Canteen [aka "Chef's Theatre"] "Chester Draws for sale"

Evidence [if evidence were needed] that anachronisms are alive and well.

hysteria

"Infantile and crude" - bung in cynical and it just about sums up my sense of humour which was forged during my years at CH; seems to me I may only develop a sense of moral outrage and indignation later in life- tho' I hope not. Frankly I was bored by the coverage after a couple of days.

Does anyone else remember Neil Paknadel in the very first stage preformance of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - in the Prep Hall about 1970 I was a "Second Treble" in that production; I think JDS was the Producer / Director - we certainly held some of the reheasals in his LH...

Neil Paknadel was a third former in LHB when I joined CH in 1969; he used to hang around with Tod Ramos. I saw him on University Challenge in the mid 70's. Someone told me at the time that Neil's Grandfather invented Marmite - isn't it extraordinary what you can remember once prompted?

tweed

... and there's no way it's an April Fools joke!

It seems to me I pass through clusters of smokers outside every enclosed public space since the ban - I can't escape them. It seems to me a suitable collective noun is now required to describe them so when I'm feeling charitable I refer to them as a 'plume' of smokers, on bad days I refer to them as...

I'm reading A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby, an excellent read on the commute home. The preface by Evelyn Waugh is worth the purchase price alone.

Again, something written rather than said, on the IBM Notice Board, "For Sale - Chester Draws"

I believe it's a so called "royal" who has, for some years, been carving out a career in furniture. Not so much a minor royal as a chip off the old block.