Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Hi Mary! Brilliant you're here on the Forum! Caroline has produced a terrific picture of a group of Sixes ?1969 - and there you are waving, top left. Marmite?? The "jam" came in a tin jug at tea time. Thick, turgid, glutinous, it bore no real resemblance to fruit at all. But I don't remem...

Jude wrote:Marmite

We were given the same quantity of Marmite as jam, so it lasted weeks.

Thanks for the welcome. I have been reading some of the old threads, and they bring back lots of memories. I remember the mice. We bought the first one while Liz and I were at my house in Plumstead. I had spent most of the October holidays with Liz's family in Gutersloh. My mother was alarmed when I...

I remember we all had to learn the carmen in our first year. We didn't start Latin till the second year, so I learnt it as strings of gibberish. I failed to recite it properly, so had to go on my own to Miss West, at the end of the week, and recite it on my own. Very scary. This is my first post (th...