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- Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: RESEARCH - FLYING BOMB
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7907
Re: RESEARCH - FLYING BOMB
I have never heard of this, having been at CH 1978-85, when some at the school (e.g. Mr Kirby) would have been WW2 veterans and might well have had tales to tell or re-tell. I am suprised it wasn't more of a story, it must have left some form of crater visible even today.
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: GRACE
- Replies: 71
- Views: 39572
Re: GRACE
From memory, and I have wracked my brains over the years without success, but seeing this reminds me, I would remove 'that' after 'table'. I could recite the one for before without even thinking, but got a bit stuck half way through the second! I found this after a search here, but I'm not certain o...
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14177
Re: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)
How does CH split up as regards degrees? Is there a pattern here? Arts, Literature, Humanities, Classics, Modern Languages or the STEM disciplines? From my time, mid-1980s, I certainly felt that CH regarded the science A-levels (and science degrees) as rather unworthy, despite there being two scien...
- Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14177
Re: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)
PPE is the original 'Media Studies' degree, it's just got Oxford's branding. If the author of the book you cite has a theory that rewrites economic science I'd be happy to see an elaboration of it. Does he deny that taxation and regulation, the soundness of money, private property and the rule of la...
- Wed Jun 03, 2020 11:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Coronavirus: David Norgrove gives 'em both barrels
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3226
Re: Coronavirus: David Norgrove gives 'em both barrels
A few weeks ago there was a Matt cartoon in the Telegraph, a civil servant in the corridor is grabbed as he goes past an office and is told that to meet the target, he's going to be tested 37,000 times (or so). This is called the gross output indicator approach, beloved of Stalin's 5-year plans: Hav...
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 10:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Leave Days in Horsham
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11670
Re: Leave Days in Horsham
Leave Days, early 1980s. A mix, mainly a chance to see my father who lived in London, and going up to London by train, or down to Brighton with him, the occasional day trip home to south east London, leaving home around 5.30 to get to CH via London Bridge/East Croydon. Not always possible to see a p...
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Charles Hazlewood
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10114
Re: Charles Hazlewood
I was in Charles Hazlewood's year, never in his house and I think I only shared one class with him, iirc Willie Lough OBE's LE German. My only interaction with Charles in 7 years was, iirc, being on the receiving end of a minor gratuitous insult whilst waiting outside Willie Lough's classroom, waiti...
- Tue May 26, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: What is CH for these days?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15405
Re: What is CH for these days?
Foureyes invites a debate as to why the international megarich would want to send their children to this country what with Coronavirus, etc. I would submit that the answer is heritage and tradition. The universality of the English language, our well-publicised but now defunct empire, our traditions...
- Fri May 15, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Milk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 29106
Re: Milk
In my time, late 70s, big yellow buckets of the stuff, which always had a whiff of stale milk (inevitably) and up to LE, drinking lots of it. There was some blurb about its high fat content, comparable to Jersey and Guernsey cows. It often had a sour edge. Once when we shared the Dining Room annexe ...
- Fri May 15, 2020 4:45 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Ken Grimshaw
- Replies: 57
- Views: 149202
Re: Ken Grimshaw
My main memory of you (from my time in LHB) is reports that you would roam Big Side with your dog which was trained to sniff out juvenile smokers. Nice to hear positive comments about the place from your time, and good to hear that it stood you in good stead. Squash was never really pushed at CH, th...
- Fri May 15, 2020 4:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The CCF Signals Section
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8841
Re: The CCF Signals Section
Having inadvertently provided the genesis of this thread, may I point out that in terms of the Signals, it was my impression (in mid-teens and for the limited time that I was in the CCF) that it was the parking lot for the less militarily-inclined in the Army section, and (from my time only) it appe...
- Wed May 13, 2020 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: R Rae
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11453
Re: R Rae
In my years at CH, I can honestly say that whilst I remember Rocker as a member of staff, and I knew him by sight, I do not think that I was ever once in his presence or heard him speak, not having been in his House or a class that he taught, or even a game that he refereed. I knew him mainly by rep...
- Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:35 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: RIP Tom Jeffers 1944-2020
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9979
Re: RIP Tom Jeffers 1944-2020
Very sad to hear of Tom's passing and his having suffered from such a terrible disease, RIP and condolences to his family, especially Jackie. He was my Housemaster in PeA in the mid-1980s. He was extremely good-natured and always brimming with enthusiasm and positivity. He also taught me German for ...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:00 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Bursaries Shmursaries
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7347
Re: Bursaries Shmursaries
There is a quote floating around, probably from Ben Trovato, that of doctors' opposition to the NHS, Bevan said 'I shall stuff their mouths with gold'.
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blue Clearout
- Replies: 34
- Views: 18807
Re: Old Blue Clearout
Regarding pranks, I recall early 1980s of being told a long past tale of someone locking a cow into the Dining Room one summer morning very early and letting the bockers (presumably) discover it. It might have been reported as a teacher, Mr Waller as a pupil having done that.