I don't know about anyone else, but all I get is a wide green band!!
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- Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Blue on line
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4310
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:41 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: ANY DUTCH SPEAKERS OUT THERE?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2027
Re: ANY DUTCH SPEAKERS OUT THERE?
Now 28 offers and stil rising. It would seem that an extraordinary number of Old Blues have Dutch spouses - there is clearly an opportunity for a post-graduate sociological thesis here!
Again, many thanks to all who responded.
Again, many thanks to all who responded.
- Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:43 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: ANY DUTCH SPEAKERS OUT THERE?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2027
Re: ANY DUTCH SPEAKERS OUT THERE?
In answer to my request on this forum and the CHA e-Newsletter, I have received a dozen* offers of help, including one from Cyprus! Many thanks to all concerned - all is now solved.
PS *Now 23!!!
PS *Now 23!!!
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Married at CH...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4937
Re: Married at CH...
Neill the Notorious wrote: "An old rumour (In my time) alleged that the School Captain could be Married, and on at least one occasion WAS !!! (This would be in the early 19th C)" I suggest you ask Ken Mansell, Old Blue, about this. He has done/is doing an immense amount of work on CH/Old B...
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: ANY DUTCH SPEAKERS OUT THERE?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2027
ANY DUTCH SPEAKERS OUT THERE?
I am doing research on Old Blues who died in World War Two. I have obtained a book IN DUTCH which appears to contain references to the death of one of them in Sumatra. The section concerned is about 700 words long. I can get the general gist but need an accurate translation to ensure that I do not m...
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:22 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: World War II
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5708
Re: Two OB authors ..
"[ i]their view --- almost unanimous-- was that it was a total "Cock-up."Poor intelligence, about the disposition and strength of the German forces in the area, insufficient Troops to achieve the objectives --- etc.etc. !"[/ i] Most battles are cock-ups -it's just that the side t...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:52 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Operation Bluecoat/Market Garden.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1435
Op Bluecoat
There was discussion in The Blue some years ago concerning whether the name "Operation Bluecoat" could have been chosen by an Old Blue, or the operation could have had some other (undisclosed) link with Housie. This is extremely unlikely. The system for codenames is that there is a masterl...
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Bokkers Today
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11892
Re: Bokkers Today
My recollection is that in the early 1950s the term "bokker" referred not only to school groundsmen and maintenance staff, but also to any agricutural worker; ie, farmhands. I can remember travelling on the CH-Guildford line and four of us shouting at every farmworker we saw in the fields,...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Change of Name - is it true?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10631
Re: Change of Name - is it true?
Unfortunately, it is correct. What I find so insulting is that there was not even a pretence of seeking to consult members of the association as to what they thought of the proposal. After all, what is the rush? What is the rationale - if any? It is well accepted in modern management that an organis...
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Summer 2009 'Old Blue'
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9323
Re: Summer 2009 'Old Blue'
Richard Ruck says:
I apologise - slip of the keyboard. Doesn't change what I had to say, though."Could I just point out that this is Neill being quoted, not me. Thanks."
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Summer 2009 'Old Blue'
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9323
Re: Summer 2009 'Old Blue'
Richard Ruck said: "The School is NOT poor, nor do I believe is the Association, and if it is pleading poverty, what happened to the Club Funds ?" I was involved with the Club Committee at the time of the Club's demise. At that time, the Club had some 4,900 members who happily paid £15 a ...
- Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Summer 2009 'Old Blue'
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9323
Re: Summer 2009 'Old Blue'
J Hopgood says: "Please also bear in mind that this year the CHA manager resigned.."
But, like Old Blues' Day, that has become an annual event - Sara, Zoe, Michelle, one year each!
But, like Old Blues' Day, that has become an annual event - Sara, Zoe, Michelle, one year each!
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: YOU MUST SEE THIS!
- Replies: 55
- Views: 9992
Re: YOU MUST SEE THIS!
John,
I thought that I recognised you in the front rank of the second house - without a beard, of course!
I thought that I recognised you in the front rank of the second house - without a beard, of course!
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: YOU MUST SEE THIS!
- Replies: 55
- Views: 9992
YOU MUST SEE THIS!
On Internet go to "British Pathe News"
On Search type in "Christ's Hospital"
Click on "Speech Day 1932"
Wonderfull
PS Make sure sound is switched on
On Search type in "Christ's Hospital"
Click on "Speech Day 1932"
Wonderfull
PS Make sure sound is switched on
- Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2650
Re: James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot
The Tissot painting was used on a C.H. Christmas card a few years back