Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I've left a comment on your Facebook video Ruth. Whose song is this? This kind of narrative traditional music was recycled in the last century by singers like Harry Cox. I used to write for the music papers in the 70s and the only folk interview I ever did was with Bob Johnson and Peter Knight of St...

I logged on this morning Ruth not quite knowing whether the moderators might have taken my limerick down. They're sometimes a bit touchy. Just clocked your link. You've got a terrific voice. What was the song and whose was it? I've got only a slight knowledge of folk music.

There was an ex-boarder called Ruth
Who feared she was long in the tooth.
But her song got the hits
(Or was it her tits?)
She was clearly not losing her youth.

Banker Brown suggests that the Forum has deleted part of his post, and maybe it is this that is causing him to rage in impotent fury. I'm interested to know how all this works since I also missed the original posts by aliburns and the first I knew of them was that there was a long sequence saying &q...

The countries that got into trouble in and after 2007 (Northern Rock first, in the UK, October 2007, if I remember rightly - Northern Rock had been a stable building society before the Tories under John Major started encouraging demutualisation) and then the US, Iceland, Spain and Ireland. All these...

The reason young people are buying loads of consumer stuff is that they get it on tick. This wouldn't have been allowed when we were younger. You were only allowed two and a half times your annual salary for a mortgage and you had to have an argument with your bank manager just to get a modest overd...

Freaky gets a letter in today's weekend FT. Replying to last week's advice by one of their (rather young) financial advisers urging people to punt on the stock exchange (and any other exchanges they could think of) in order to build a nest egg, I reminded her that the last time this happened was in ...

Well come on woman. You said the site was rather quiet but you have gone into remission (as cancer patients say). Speak up. Say your piece. What did you think of the royal wedding for instance? Is Spoony to your liking? What is the future for the English boarding school? I think we should be told.

Managed to avoid the royal wedding ceremony completely by going to the garden centre which, as I suspected, was almost empty. Came back carrying carload of summer colour and switched on telly to find pundits and public still engaged in monumental grovelling, infantile, ass-licking, brain-numbing non...

OK guys, let's kick off this site again after a long lay-off. We're that much nearer now to the disaster called Brexit that is going to engulf us when we jump off the cliff in just under a year's time. What will be the ramifications for CH? What will be left of our economy as all those foreign multi...

At least he isn't wearing it the wrong way round.

Very amusing but not quite up to the classic standard of Keats, Byron and Coleridge et al , I fancy. :roll: Given the poetic postings on Brexit by my contemporary Brian Allgar, is it possible that we are inspired by our old house name? In Coleridge B did NT Fryer a stately poetry dome decree, Where...

I remember going along to a House Baths session when I was 14 and being struck down by a nasty bout of cramp in one of my legs while I was swimming, so I hauled myself out onto the side of the pool. The master who was supervising the session saw that I had cramp, so he hunkered down at the poolside...

I wouldn't exactly call the site quiet. Serial gropers are being banged up and their historic antics given an airing. Spoony is back and launching Barnes Wallis bouncing bombs, as someone put it. And Doctors Scuffil and Batterbee are frequently engaged in pedagogic pugilism. Something for everyone I...

Being female only has anything to do with it in as much as they've all decamped off this site. Apart from Katharine. Even Angela Woodford is heard from no more. Engaged in conjugal bliss with the Stoic boyfriend perhaps. There is actually a thread called "Where have all the ladies gone?" I...