Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

He is officially running for GovCal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... a-governor

Another advantage of keeping your UK passport is that there is an agreement that Commonwealth countries allow all Commonwealth citizens to use their embassy in an emergency. E.g. a British person in an emergency situation in Burkina Faso, which has no UK embassy, can use the Indian, Canadian or ...

Just don't pull them out simultaneously at Border Control.


Dual UK-EU citizens (with the exception of dual UK-Irish) will soon have to do this, not at border control but at check-in and possibly at the gate during the final check.

Why? With ETIAS coming to effect in the EU+Schengen, and the ...

You’re right Fidesien to put a question mark after Ryan Air. Last Christmas my wife and I travelled to Dublin with them for a long weekend break. The flight was delayed by about four hours due to some mechanical problem. They gave us a voucher for a coffee and a snack at the café and I filled in a ...

To me it's a no-brainer to get another citizenship (especially an EU one) if you are eligible. So much more to it than queuing.

It's not about emotion, it's about retaining the legal rights that the 52% voted to take away. In this sense, nationality is not an emotional issue, it is a practical one ...

I remember in the mid-90s it was in a little garage between the Scout Hut and the CDT building, behind the Dining Hall. It was run by Revd Chris Robinson (husband of Elspeth Robinson of Food & Nut fame).

I remember the layout was inspired by Box Hill in the Downs - a few circuits around the outside ...

sejintenej wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 2:50 pm even the teachers can't do decent handwriting - we got the ruler on knuckles if we were messy.

Thankfully attitudes are not so primitive and violent nowadays.

You're welcome!

This is the one you're looking for (you need to be a member of the "Old Blues" private Facebook group to view it).

https://www.facebook.com/chris.chapman. ... 7942042588

I'm not aware of it being available anywhere else online. Perhaps ask the person who posted it.

I have belatedly learned of the death of Professor David Taplin (CH 1950-57).

He was an engineer and professor who worked and taught in various countries around the world, before ultimately settling and retiring in Vancouver.

Our paths crossed professionally about 20 years ago and we stayed in ...

Company was run by the Silletts, to save googling.

I was surprised by her calling it Christ’s , is that common usage? I would have expected CH or the full name. Of course the change may have been made by the paper.


I have heard this on several occasions, but not by current or former pupils or staff themselves. I've heard it said by people who ...

That's pretty much what I remember living in. Don't know if it was proper wood or dry wall. At the time I never thought about build quality because anything was better than open dorms, but I remember how the walls would bend when you climbed up them by putting your feet on one wall and pressing ...

I just came across it this morning. Sad reading.

It seems that she has written a book about the negative effects of boarding schools in general, not specifically slamming CH but more the whole idea of living away from home as a child. I don't blame her as it was clearly a life-defining experience ...

I remember him, although he never taught me. JGD if I recall?

There seems to have been a John Geoffrey Ditcham teaching English and French at Schule Marienau in northern Germany in the 00s.

Companies House has him, as of November 2022, as a board member of a Bath-based sports education company. He ...