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- Mon Jan 23, 2023 9:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: A question regarding a punishment book
- Replies: 19
- Views: 43693
Re: A question regarding a punishment book
It's been mentioned that in other houses the punishment time included changing from, and back into, full housey dress. By my time this was regarded in Barnes B as unhygienic - you worked up quite a sweat on a run like that - and the times were adjusted to permit starting and ending in games clothes...
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 8:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Accents at CH Horsham
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20523
Re: Accents at CH Horsham
My father-in-law (Eric Morgan) said that he lost his Welsh accent PDQ after arrival... Only dare to be different if you can take the attention. Re sejintenej's comment about Breton, a pissed Breton and similar Welshman could converse happily at any rugby international, and I think Cornish shares th...
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: teaching relevance in later life
- Replies: 24
- Views: 59428
Re: teaching relevance in later life
At the end of the week she claimed that she had learned more French in five days than in the years up to GCSE. That sounds about right. I moved to France towards the end of the first big pandemic lockdown, was in quarantine for a couple of weeks and for the next six months my only French language i...
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:07 pm
- Forum: Jobs/work experience - wanted/available
- Topic: any jobs going?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23666
Re: any jobs going?!
95% of the CVs offered to us breached some, often many of our specifications I think it's quite normal to apply to a job where you don't meet every single bullet-point requirement, as long as you tick the majority of them. The interview should be the opportunity for the employer to assess whether t...
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 10:07 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: teaching relevance in later life
- Replies: 24
- Views: 59428
Re: teaching relevance in later life
I live and work in France, and GCSE French did give me a little bit of a head start in terms of learning the language. Outside that though, the things I learned at CH that stayed with me weren't from the teaching. Interesting. I lived in France after I retired. One summer, days after taking GCSE Fr...
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:44 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: David Jesson-Dibley: RIP
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5288
Re: David Jesson-Dibley: RIP
I have always been puzzled about the teaching of "English" in schols. What is it? How is it done? What is so-called "Good" English? My primary school teacher, up to the age of nine, was a martinet over nouns, verbs adjectives and copperplate writing. I probably missed the pronoun...
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:26 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: From the sublime to the ridiculous
- Replies: 293
- Views: 165516
Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
time please wrote When you lived in Norway ( I think you did ) presumably you were registered to live there. In which case you enjoyed first class health care to a minimal cost. So you did rather enjoy the fruits of a system where everyone chips in. Your comment about shopping for health care or see...
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:33 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: teaching relevance in later life
- Replies: 24
- Views: 59428
teaching relevance in later life
To what extent (if any) was the area you followed at CH (sciences, languages, classics etc) benefit you in later life? In my case I followed the sciences - physics, chemistry, but in later life such learning helped for a mere 2 or 3 minutes when I remembered how the Pilkington Float Glass process wo...
- Tue Nov 08, 2022 7:28 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: From the sublime to the ridiculous
- Replies: 293
- Views: 165516
Wedding that was
Came to that awkward moment when the priest asked if anyone had anything to say concerning the union of the bride and groom. Utter silence was broken when a beautiful young woman carrying a child stood up. She starts walking slowly towards the priest. The congregation was aghast - you could almost h...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:09 pm
- Forum: Jobs/work experience - wanted/available
- Topic: any jobs going?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23666
Re: any jobs going?!
In my day (1950s and 60s) the Benevolent Society of Blues might have found her a a job. What happened to them? Not so benevolent perhaps these days. Just in case any YOB (young old blue) is reading I am a bit averse to employment agencies. On the occasions I was looking for staff we made a specific...
- Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Freaky in the FT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 46261
Re: Freaky in the FT
Freaky wrote: Would it not be better to have the chancellor, governor of the BofE and eight wise persons sitting round a table and trying to balance monetary and fiscal policy? The kind of arrangement that we had when Ken Clarke was chancellor? The present arrangement merely ghetto-ises the function...
- Mon Oct 24, 2022 7:51 pm
- Forum: Jobs/work experience - wanted/available
- Topic: any jobs going?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23666
Re: any jobs going?!
Hey, Rockfreak. Idwal slabs was easy - just +/- 400 feet of flat rock with the occasional crack to break up the monotony of not even vertical flatness. I seem to think that we made a loose attempt at belaying. No big problem OR struggle so we went straight on to ? Devil's Kitchen which is climbed in...
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 10:35 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Flecker’s Banning of some Comics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9334
Re: Flecker’s Banning of some Comics
Alex posted (some time ago! Are there more examples of CH (Horsham) censorship? One not mentioned was censorship of inward post. A certain member hereof had a girlfriend whose letters seem to have been somewhat "hot". Kit heard about this and the boy's inward mail was checked by Kit who I ...
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Accents at CH Horsham
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20523
Re: Accents at CH Horsham
What an analysis from someone I possibly knew (the name is familiar). I agree with the conclusion that we ended up with a (mock) upper class accent but much still depends on our backgrounds. I agree also that there was no teaching of pronunciation in English or French or Spanish at CH. No German for...
- Wed Oct 12, 2022 1:45 pm
- Forum: Looking for....
- Topic: Member: Eloise - ?eloisesec
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8925
Re: Member: Eloise - ?eloisesec
post by loringa » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:20 pm David - I think you are probably referring to this: viewtopic.php?t=731 which originated with a post from eloisec back in 2005 which I think could be read as cri de coeur. I suspect she moved on to better things - I hope so! Top Yes!!!! That is exactly wha...