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- Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:40 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: looking for an ancient radio programme
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6703
Re: looking for an ancient radio programme
Thanks Katharine for that link. It will provide me with all the information I need, though as the slot between the news and Gardeners' Question Time was not occupied by the same programme every week I shall have to apply my forensic skills to working out which one it was. But my forensic skills are ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:19 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
- Replies: 143
- Views: 109137
Re: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
Kirby was a hater of fancy words and certainly would never have said 'heuristic' or allowed us to say it. When someone asked 'Is that a scalpel' he replied 'Yes, spelt K-N-I-F-E', and 'femur' for 'thigh bone' was quite taboo. I think though he was probably more 'heuristic' in his approach than those...
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: looking for an ancient radio programme
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6703
looking for an ancient radio programme
In the mid-to-late 1970s, BBC Radio 4 put out a sort of quirky magazine programme after the midday news on Sundays. It was a potpourri of all sorts of stuff, and attracted some critical approbation. I was a keen listener, but cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. Can anyone help?
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:22 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Favourite teacher
- Replies: 240
- Views: 133713
Re: Favourite teacher
If I didn't post here years ago I have to mention: Mr Crosland who many others have praised and who taught A level physics in a manner very different to other teachers but was highly effective; one looked forward to his lessons. Mr Kirby; what has not been said about him? Very different though I do...
- Thu Apr 04, 2019 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Historic methods of punishment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9092
Re: Roger Martin - trial
The 'quartered' bit was definitely posthumous: the body was quartered and the quarters stuck up in various public places. I believe the genitalia were cut off first, before the disembowelling. (Women, incidentally, were never hanged, drawn and quartered. Their modesty was respected.) As for the last...
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:57 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
- Replies: 81
- Views: 31804
Re: Freemasons and questions to answer
There are numerous anecdotes about Johnny and I'd imagined they'd all been told on this forum by now, but this is a new one. Johnny clearly got lumbered with some unpopular jobs. He was master i/c chair-shifting (!) and master i/c welcoming new boys and their parents. I was for a time his grecian si...
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:36 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Squeaker John Bercow
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4569
Re: Squeaker John Bercow
Probably the best Speaker in our lifetime* (even better than Betty Boothroyd). Someone has to enforce the constitution, and clearly the PM doesn't seem minded to. It is of course open to parliament to change a 400-year-old rule (which everyone agrees is there for a good reason), but the Rule of Law ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:43 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
- Replies: 81
- Views: 31804
Re: Freemasons and questions to answer
I didn't know that Johnny was a Mason. The only staff member who I knew for certain was one was Dr Scott, because his son (who was in ThB) used to regale us with tales of the various altars he would set up. Was Rae a Mason? I ask because he, like Johnny, was one of those who carried Mrs Scott's coff...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:40 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Cricket coach ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2579
Re: Cricket coach ?
I remember my father once instructing me that all Clark(e)s were 'Nobby' just as all Wilsons were 'Tug' (and, for more obvious reasons, all Whites were 'Chalky' and all Millers were 'Dusty'). My contact with serious cricket at the Redcoats school was nil, though for some reason I do remember Len Bat...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:07 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
- Replies: 143
- Views: 109137
Re: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
I can vouch for the fact that Doc M did in fact say this (and although I only heard him say it once, obviously, I gather it was one of his standard lines.)
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 3:59 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Roger Martin - trial
- Replies: 320
- Views: 226937
Re: Roger Martin - trial
Samuel Pepys witnessed the execution of Major-General Harrison: 'I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.' Harrison made a speech saying he would soon be sitting on the rig...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:56 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Master's Wives....
- Replies: 43
- Views: 27825
Re: Master's Wives....
Mention has been made of Reggie Dean and how he rarely attended Common Room functions. I know that his first wife died in 1941 They had several children of whom Christopher Dean (MA 41-51) was I believe their eldest. I know that he married again and had at least one further child. He was I remember...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Gaia Week at Christ's Hospital
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8472
Re: Gaia Week at Christ's Hospital
What is primitive about animism? It was believed in by the Romans whose culture we were taught to respect, and in the form of Shinto, by most Japanese, whose civilization seems quite advanced. Incidentally I have no objection to Sheldrake's views whatever. My problem all along is that the ones he is...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:36 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Roger Martin - trial
- Replies: 320
- Views: 226937
Re: Roger Martin - trial
If health be the problem methinks our ancestors had the right idea. As was normal it was Oliver Cromwell's corpse which was unearthed and placed in the dock for his trial. Not too sure how they would hve carried out the second part of hung, drawn and quartered. Methinks sejintenej errs in this matt...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:53 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
- Replies: 143
- Views: 109137
Re: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
all a bit embarrassing but after all we swam and had swimming lessons naked so why not? To quote and misquote Ecclesiastes: To every thing there is a season. A time to be naked and a time to be clothed. I frequent a nude beach (in summer). I live in Germany so this is not particularly eccentric. Bu...