Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Martin, adding to my above message, my byline was always David Redshaw. If you are the Martin Hayman of Sounds I seem to remember that our paths crossed when I was sharing an office with Mike Leadbitter in the early 70s and you came in to get some background from him on a blues singer you were about...

As the EU continues to say "non" to our half-witted Tory politicians trying to pretend that they're making progress, where do OBs stand on this? Will we lose sovereignty or will the sovereignty of the WTO make things even worse as we jump off the cliff next March and have to pay stonking t...

I used to write for the music papers in the 70s I do not recall your byline. Which papers did you write for? Hello Martin. Are you the same guy who used to write for Sounds? I freelanced for the NME for about three years from 1973 to 76 and also wrote for Music Week and was involved at the launch o...

Thanks Mid A 15 and Katharine. Yes Katharine, don't you remember I posted some time ago to say that your brother and I were in our Prep houses at the same time. He also shares his birthday with Mick Jagger then.

It occurred to me later John that you might have enough to do than keep up to date with our birthdays so perhaps we should flag them up ourselves. I'm melting but the budgie seems OK. I guess it's more her sort of climate.

How have I managed to put this thread heading up again????

Near bedtime and I've got all windows and doors thrown open and I'm still warm. Gravesend frequently gets hottest temperature in Summer. Still, never mind, I'm just an hour or two away from getting my 75th birthday greeting from JR which I've no doubt will be noted with enthusiasm by Avon.

Nick Duffell has a bit to say about Oxford's pomp and privilege. And Toby Young, a rather right-wing commentator as it happens, was at Oxford at the same time as Cameron and Boris Johnson and he says that they appeared to be running everything there just as they'd run everything at Eton. Even among ...

Dobbie, McCall, Husband and Wignall all in a row @ 40 s in this video. Uncanny....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sezmz_Iaw2Y&app=desktop Who is Wignall? I don’t recognise the name. This video is a real eye-opener for me. CH comes across as even more pompous and grandiose than when I was th...

I've got problems inside the house as well. When I reached 65 the state was insistent that I should be fully insulated so along came a bloke to insulate my loft (above the bedroom) for free. In came roll after roll of yellowy stuff and when he'd finished it was so deep that it was way above the jois...

There must be a few of our lot (JR, MS, PWB, Me) who might pop our clogs at some point. Perhaps the moderators could prepare some obituaries ready for the occasion like the papers do. Banker Brown isn't posting quite so much these days - perhaps he won't be long he departs for the great foreign exch...

I find it interesting that some on this site seem to think that this "can't happen again". That's what I thought when I left CH in 1960 having seen three masters kicked out then. How touching. What evidence do they have that it won't happen again? I'm sure Rhymin' Simon will set it all to ...

Let me re-run the limerick I wrote for him. If by any chance he's gone to the great ivy-encrusted cloister in the sky it can serve as an epitaph:

An eminent Doctor called Scuffil
Was prone to the pedagogue shuffle.
The theories did flow,
Sometimes just a bon mot,
But he always delivered a truffle.

I think these were probably posted on here a few years’ back but here are some youtube videos from the Poulton era. Might help refresh some memories and aid those who weren’t there at the time put unfamiliar faces to familiar names: Highway 1989 At about 23.02 the girl being interviewed grew into m...

Why should we stop arguing about state schools versus public schools? It seems to me the very crux of the matter. This country spends less on state education as a proportion of GDP than most other developed countries and it shows. Of course money is an issue. To argue otherwise is disingenuous. If m...

Ha Ha! Same old right-wing crap. Politics of envy! Are you prepared to pay the tax necessary Julian to give all the schools the facilities that the public schools have? Where do we start? What about the playing fields? The state schools might have decent playing fields but I have a feeling that some...