Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

In a statement, the Diocese of Chichester said both victims had showed "great courage in coming forward". Expressing its "deep sense of sorrow", it added: "All cases of sexual abuse are a great betrayal. "Where it has happened, it must be brought into the light so that justice can be done." Regrets...

Highly unlikely I ever got one; my mother would not have been able to get to a post office even if she could get anything to send

Today’s news that stamps are going up in price brought back a memory of life at Hertford. We all had to write home every Sunday, this was almost always in the afternoon. The letters were then collected up and posted on Monday morning. Did you at Horsham have to write home every week? Was there a se...

Many years ago Bristol University or hospital did a study based on CH medical records since 1903 or so. The conclusion that I heard was that old blues are expected (on average) to live longer than the UK average. I have to assume that the study was for males only and hopefully the investigators also...

On an unrelated subject, is anybody else now getting adverts appearing in the middle of posts not just at the top and bottom of the page - very strange? Not me but it may be the way I log in; straight to general index and thence to new posts. Nothing on any posts but I do have a block on various st...

Back in the Dark Ages, when sejintenej and I were there, monitors were allowed to give running punishments: miles, double miles and, dependent on which end of The Avenue your House was, loops or Post Office Runs. A monitor would track you on a bicycle as you completed the requisite distance. How do...

Any idea why? I would expect the danger of kids running on roads, especially over Peele Bridge as well as potential child protection concerns... Must be new danger concerns, then... Not much of a steeplechase/cross country if it's just a few laps around Big Side - reminds of the old Sunday morning ...

These days, the don’t run it outside the ring fence so I assume they must just run around big side or something... Any idea why? Probably don't want to mess up the carpet in that nice travel lodge accomodation they seem to have now. I like it but the truth is probably that dam**d 'elf and safety. I...

I don't think prisoners should be tagged, they should serve their time. It's not a punishment And if the prisons are too full, then sentence them to less time. But let's not pretend that justice is served or we are being tough on crime by tagging them. I understand it provides flexibility, incentiv...

Ah yes, cross-country - the default setting for any wet afternoon when the games pitches were OOB. I can honestly say that I have never, ever gone running for pleasure. Ditto here - I am not a masochist. that said I was a semi-pro doing cross country skiing up to 100 miles a day and very occasional...

Webb and Dobbie both lived in France prior, they will need Probation permission to return there whilst on license. The French immigration would be within their rights to prevent either or both entering France from any country (including another EU nation) and if they do get in then the local Mairie...

My wife’s Costa Rican niece was visiting and challenges her family to discover unusual words . This was one of them but I had to ask her to remind me what it was. I had a survey sent to me a few days ago about telematics and car insurance. That had me lost. It was not in my very thick English dicti...

Webb and Dobbie both lived in France prior, they will need Probation permission to return there whilst on license. The French immigration would be within their rights to prevent either or both entering France from any country (including another EU nation) and if they do get in then the local Mairie...

THE STEEPLECHASE, in the 1950s How sadistic to make the whole school run in The Steeplechase in the 1990s! AFAIR it was everyone in my day. Torture. Same in my time. I seem to remember the Blissett twins from Lamb winning it together on one occasion. Yes; they even trained for the steeplechase and ...

In the summer holidays of 88 i taught by step brother clutch control on a 125 motorcycle on the mile as i lived local and Peele gates were never locked Totally off topic; my mother's employer (who later became my semi-adopted father) taught me to drive on private property from when I was about 11 a...