Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

This is an ANCIENT thread, but I just found the image in question and knew it would likely have been mentioned here.

It’s called ‘London Visitors’ and it’s by James Tissot, a french artist who was a keen observer of the British… the write-up on the Toledo Museum of Art website is succinct, but ...

Fish

For old times' sake... I can't believe this topic is still running four years on.

Glad you got some help, J(PF)T. And ten volunteers... most excellent. Will be good to see the site in new hands.

Aww, thank you all. :D

I had a lovely day. Filled with messages and emails and cards and calls from all my friends (which made up for the work part of the day).

And then I drop in on here to find that Mallet's Mallet is still running... I'm touched, really! Have a http://www.chforum.info/php ...

tamper

(I can't believe this thread is still running! )

Go on: you know you want to download it and read it over lunch!

pin

Happy Birthday DBTS!! Have a smashing day and many happy returns. Hope you get a chance to float about in a boat a bit today.

Also Happy Birthdays to daffers and andymot--have super days one and all.

Useless fact: you all share a birthday with my beloved Grandma who is 87 today.

spear

Happy Birthday Roy Moore, aka oldroamer and Nigel Nathan!

Helmet

I can't believe no one else jumped in with this sooner than me...!

acid (sorry, but it is word association and I've just been listening to Tea Party by Mitch Benn and the Distractions)

Revenue

:shock: Luckily "my" lot are much friendlier than that!

In fact, Americanisms aside, it's a great job—it would have to be to tempt me away from the heady days of self-employment... staying in my pyjamas until midday, daytime tv... ah, those were the days!*

*obviously, this is a joke :lol:

Hmm, actually it's mostly an Americanism, but I am now required to use these for my job. Normally, the internal censor in my head allows me to use American English and slang in emails and in the books, but prevents me from using "color" and "different than" *shudder* in polite conversations (spoken ...