Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Legofan60163 wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:31 pm

Hi All, hope everyone is well.
Current pupil here,
The theatre is under refurbishment until around September next year. ......................................

Good to see a current pupil here and giving us an update from the inside.

Best of luck

With our two sons, we brought them up from tiny knowing they would go at the age of 8, poor little mites. By contrast I was merely told I would be going to a different school. No information about being away from home. Zilch The House Master talked to the parents So far as I am aware the only conta...

I can definitely confirm that my first year at CH, starting January 1958 was to me, PURE HELL !! Ditto at age just 9 in 1952 and add to that the bast**ds spoke an unintelligible lingo. Worse, marching in to tea one night in the dark I got an sharp pain under my foot and was forbidden to fall out. I...

I can definitely confirm that my first year at CH, starting January 1958 was to me, PURE HELL !! Ditto at age just 9 in 1952 and add to that the bast**ds spoke an unintelligible lingo. Worse, marching in to tea one night in the dark I got an sharp pain under my foot and was forbidden to fall out. I...

The only issue I had was that my grandfather died with a different name from the one on his birth certificate. Fortunately, this didn't seem overly to faze the Civil Servant in the Irish citizenship department who well may be used to this sort of thing happening with his fellow countryman and my ex...

Andrew, I’ll be using my new Irish passport for the first time later this month. My sons are in the same position as you, they have an Irish born grandparent, but can’t pass the citizenship on to their children, as it never occurred to me it might be necessary to register my sons. The only comment ...

I learnt yesterday that no less than three of the England side, Farrell, Wood & Itoje, I think, went to the school I was at before CH, St George’s Harpenden, my father was school chaplain. I wonder whether this is the most in an England team from the same school, no brothers. Does anyone know? Appa...

In a way I'm luckier than you scrub as I've retired, but I have sons in their 40s and grandchildren to worry about. I imagine that one son and his children may have Scottish nationality before long, something I'd never imagined happening until the last few years. Perhaps I'll qualify to be Welsh as...

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Glad to see that the Civil Service has bowed to the inevitable. My wife has just got her new (renewal) passport and all reference to the EU has been removed! There are several methods of getting a renewal - one requires answers to a question about foreign nationality (ie dual nationality) but anothe...

I think Katharine's use of the word "ironic" was very well thought out. Perhaps other OBs and parents suffer from appointments overload - I am already booked for November 16th 2020 (birthday party not mine) and November 19th 2020 (big annual boozeup as many winelovers will recognise) . It is too lat...

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