Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Thank you kindly Andrew

Well I have to be honest, house cricket matches bore absolutely no resemblance to the game played at Lords! It was something more akin to Rollerball (for those who have seen the film).
Why do I get the feeling that I am going to get a certain smiley and be told to get back on subject?

I am not arguing for corporal punishment to re-instated, I don't think the country is ready for it and I don't think that it will ever have any beneficial effects these days. I will say that I never had a problem with the forms of punishment we lived with, my problem was in the application of the pu...

Clay

Here I go again

Is this scheme still running folks?

Pensive

Well you know me, when I start.................

A man goes into a bar and orders a quadruple scotch. He drinks the lot down in one go and the barman seeing this knows the signs... "wow what's wrong with you mate?" The man says "I came home early and found my wife in bed with my best friend". The barman says "oh my God, wh...

And there was me thinking that only happened at very boozy college parties

Wishful


Thank you Kerren, it is good to be back

One day my 16 year old daughter told me something I didn't believe so I said "oh yeah and I'm a Ducthman's uncle" (God alone knows where I got that expression from). a few days later my 17 year old son said something my 4 year old daughter didn't belive so she said "and I'm a Dutch bu...

eagerly

Hmmmm. Favourite teachers. Well there are Roger Martin and Richard "pinky" Palmer who both gave me a lasting love of English Literature. Pinky also introduced me to Derek and Clive as well as several coctails of his own invention the year after I left CH. Was anyone there when pinky was as...

Mine were sock..............my initials are soc so there is originality for you! I had another one in the hockey fraternity...............the cat beacuse I was the 1st XI keeper. I always wished that I had a more original nickname but there it is. When I worked for a large logistics firm supplying R...

Corporal punishment.....................oh what jolly fun we did have chaps! No 1. I punched another boy for reaching between my legs (we were binding down for my first ever scrum) in my first rugby match. I got 6 whacks from Mr Plumleys slipper OUCH! No 2. Late for a rugby match. A further 6 whacks...

You will never know the shock I felt when I played in my first rugby match! I had heard of rugby before I went to CH but never played it nor did I know anything about it. There I am freezing cold and very nervous, wanting to create a good impression. Then this teacher ( Mr Plumley) says here lad, ta...