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Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:04 pm

Hendrik wrote:one of my fave t-shirt slogans has to be 'fairport convention haven't heard of you either'. saw them at cropredy a couple of years ago, they've still got it.

we had some astronaut who's been on the moon, and of course, Mark Thomas (f'n legend)

i was walking through quad to the maths block and saw some bloke who wasn't anything to do with the school. i asked the nearest teacher who he was "Tim Rice (Andy LLoyd Webber's bloke)", came the reply. "As in 'Tim Rice but dim'?" said I. I then received a very unimpressed look.
i thought it was damn funny at the time though.

Good old Fairport - i saw them at a gig a few years ago and they said that they had a tribute act called 'Carport Extension!' lOL

AKAP · Post by **AKAP** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:14 pm

Great Plum wrote:Dad still goes on about that Michael Chpman gig...

for H

Hexham Courant 13th Jan
"The veteran folk singer (Michael Chapman) and songwriter is marking his birthday (65th) by setting off on the bus pass tour, with stops at Scarborough and Hull."
"Later this year he plans a UK Tour to celebrate 40 years as a musician on the road."

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:20 pm

I also remember Tim Rice at CH Horsham (in the 80's) and also we had a visit from Ken Livingstone

sport! · Post by **sport!** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:30 am

Gordon Honeycombe!

HowardH · Post by **HowardH** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:09 am

Saw Mike Chapman at Arundel three years ago. Still the world's most amazing guitarist and as gruff as ever. Talked for a while with him about the gig in Big School c.1970 (we have Roger Allam to thank for that, I think). He said he remembered it vividly for he and his wife Andru were on the way to France the next day. He recalled that for the only time in their lives the two of them caught headlice following that particular concert! Ah, fond memories of a single visit to C.H. = the architecture - no; the uniforms - no; headlice!

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:45 am

Michael Stewart came down just after Harold Wilson had made him Foreign Minister in 1965. He came for some event in Chapel, but I can't remember what it was.

AKAP · Post by **AKAP** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:05 am

HowardH wrote:Saw Mike Chapman at Arundel three years ago. Still the world's most amazing guitarist and as gruff as ever. Talked for a while with him about the gig in Big School c.1970 (we have Roger Allam to thank for that, I think). He said he remembered it vividly for he and his wife Andru were on the way to France the next day. He recalled that for the only time in their lives the two of them caught headlice following that particular concert! Ah, fond memories of a single visit to C.H. = the architecture - no; the uniforms - no; headlice!

I thought it was one of the Burgess brothers who arranged the concert.

Thinking about it, a cabin on a ferry is the more likely source of headlice, (they need physical proximity to migrate????????).

Or is that just being defensive of CH.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:11 pm

AKAP wrote:
HowardH wrote:Saw Mike Chapman at Arundel three years ago. Still the world's most amazing guitarist and as gruff as ever. Talked for a while with him about the gig in Big School c.1970 (we have Roger Allam to thank for that, I think). He said he remembered it vividly for he and his wife Andru were on the way to France the next day. He recalled that for the only time in their lives the two of them caught headlice following that particular concert! Ah, fond memories of a single visit to C.H. = the architecture - no; the uniforms - no; headlice!
I thought it was one of the Burgess brothers who arranged the concert.

Thinking about it, a cabin on a ferry is the more likely source of headlice, (they need physical proximity to migrate????????).

Or is that just being defensive of CH.

Yes, what on earth were they doing with the students to get close enough to get headlice.

My kids have had them and I didn't get them even when they got into bed with me in the mornings.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:43 pm

englishangel wrote:
AKAP wrote:
HowardH wrote:Saw Mike Chapman at Arundel three years ago. Still the world's most amazing guitarist and as gruff as ever. Talked for a while with him about the gig in Big School c.1970 (we have Roger Allam to thank for that, I think). He said he remembered it vividly for he and his wife Andru were on the way to France the next day. He recalled that for the only time in their lives the two of them caught headlice following that particular concert! Ah, fond memories of a single visit to C.H. = the architecture - no; the uniforms - no; headlice!
I thought it was one of the Burgess brothers who arranged the concert.

Thinking about it, a cabin on a ferry is the more likely source of headlice, (they need physical proximity to migrate????????).

Or is that just being defensive of CH.
Yes, what on earth were they doing with the students to get close enough to get headlice.

My kids have had them and I didn't get them even when they got into bed with me in the mornings.

I'm reliably informed that some people don't have 'the right kind of hair' for nits. (head-lice.)

Never suffered from them personally, though youngest daughter was constantly infested during her school days.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:28 pm

I don't know if it's the hair or the blood.

Two of mine had them and also get mosquito bites, the other gets/got neither.

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:17 am

apparently nits only like really clean hair because they can grab hold of it more easily (BS or not, i don' know)

mosquitoes hate: garlic in the bloodstream, and smoke.

so transform your son or daughter into a cigar-chomping frenchman by the time they reach school age, and they'll be A-OK.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:22 am

They are in their late teens now so a bit late for that.

Incidentally the mosquitos love me too, and hate my husband, it must be genetic.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:10 pm

Whilst we are on the subject of insect bites.

Did anyone else suffer from horse-fly bites whilst at Horsham ? I remember the summer of 59, I was CONSTANTLY covered in HUGE lumps caused by those dreaded insects.

Oddly, they don't bother me now, but one of our Grand-Daughters seems to suffer from then in the summer.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:16 pm

J.R. wrote:Whilst we are on the subject of insect bites.

Did anyone else suffer from horse-fly bites whilst at Horsham ? I remember the summer of 59, I was CONSTANTLY covered in HUGE lumps caused by those dreaded insects.

Oddly, they don't bother me now, but one of our Grand-Daughters seems to suffer from then in the summer.

As a kid I spent a lot of time on my uncle's farm in Somerset, so I'd learned at an early age that these little b*ggers are best avoided.

Some of my mates had to learn the hard way, though!

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:06 pm

J.R. wrote:Whilst we are on the subject of insect bites.

Not sure whether any of the other OG here wore the summer Sunday yellow dresses which were brought in for the quartercentenary; they attracted greenfly. If you were ever out in them you became covered in green spots.