Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Friend of Alex's wrote:Your round next eh, Alex?

thanks for the technical assistance Katharine and Mary. Thanks for uploading the pic.(entitled " daisychain" ) Chris. :prayer: You obviously haven't had too many :drinkers: ( sorry , just an excuse to use those emoticons ) In the pic.,which was emailed to me by Caroline Barrett ( sixes , 1...

Yes Mary , at school you were a pretty easy going, happy person. In my teens I read Baudelaire and other depressing texts in the school library and became angst ridden. You were generally jolly and you always knew what was supposed to be happening, at what time and where.I depended on sensible scien...

I am very fortunate, my genes dictate that I only have a few grey hairs, mainly across the front, my Ma didn't really start going grey until her late fifties so I am obviously going to be the same. I remember seeing a photo of my maternal grandmother at the same age as I am now, and she still had b...

I last saw Alex in 1994, and she was brunette, is that grey or blonde, I must admit it looks too shiny for grey? Er...well in that photo...it was blond with red highlights....choppy with long fringe and straightened...COOL n'est pas ? As you know Mary...when I was at school my hair was dark mud bro...

BTW Englishangel....how do you find peoples' posts...no matter WHERE they have posted....so quickly ? You must have some secret tecnique ?

Hi Non-Blue Chris.! I recognise them both. I think you should confess to having gone to a boarding school not a million miles from Horsham and much older than even CH !.....so you shouldn't be completely phased by this forum.

Hi everyone...can't stay long....just quickly...my number was 6:17 and your number Katharine ( 6:14) went to Siobhan Kierans who was incredibly bright ,sporty , original and energetic. She became my best friend but was always getting into trouble (along with me! ) DR tried to forbid us to be friends...

mmm This started out as a music thread ! I'll try to swing it back in that direction but meanwhile I must comment on some of the other off-topic posts! Firstly....Mary McDonagh...she was my friend and started in sixes at the same time as me.She came from Plumstead SW London and her father died when ...

Sorry to change the subject but earlier in this thread ( " Posh School" btw) Great Plum asked whether we played Lacrosse. Well, I have a recollection of seeing a couple of ancient Lacrosse sticks lurking in a Pavilion ( either at the school or at Ashbourne ) along with some antique cat gut...

No. Janessa always said her mother made up the name. She went through a very religious phase but then got into the Rolling Stones , dancing wildly to "Paint It Black" in the Dayroom.

I'm not sure but the girl next to Janessa could be Josephine McNamara (?)

I didn't know this thread was talking about housemistresses and I wrote about Miss Scott Haughton ( we called her Scottie and mmm maybe "Pot"...yeah..it started out as "Scot Pot" :lol: ) on the thread called " Housemistresses". Interesting to hear that Scottie was recal...

mending was done on a Friday. Regarding the Lent lectures, I remember DR reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles to us, possibly on Wednesdays in Lent. Yes I remember that .....but where and when....if twos and sixes were together ? I also remember Miss Richards ( Dickie) reading us " Jane Eyre &quo...

When did mending change from Wednesday to Friday? Er...it may not have done Katharine , it could just be my memory ! Re: the cross stitch, Englishangel ( got your name right for once!) ...mmmm.....maybe...when I can't move any more. I can still run up and down stairs just like we did at school.Year...

I was also terrified of Miss Richards.I could never in my wildest dreams have imagined how useful learning how to sew has been. I never really mastered sewing with a machine ....possibly because Miss Richard's attitude made me terrified of "doing it wrong"...you know...the bobbin and all t...