Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Round here he will be mainly remembered for his philanthropic work. Just a few miles from here is the first of many Hole in the Wall camps for terminally ill children which was one of his first major contributions. Since then his Newman's Own food line has donated over $200 million to various charit...

Received this via Facebook today: Guess I won't be drinking Starbucks anymore!! ! Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines t...

Rene Descartes walks into a bar and the barman asks "would you like to try the house wine?" Descartes says "I think not": and disappears

There used to be what struck me as a very bizarre practice. While we were generally not allowed off school grounds, especially in the first few years, once a year we were forced to spend the entire day away from school. After breakfast we were provided an indescribable boxed lunch and then had to be...

I guess he must be after my time at Horsham. Name doesn't ring a bell. My nemesis was Sgt-Major Mutter whose eyes were sunk so deep in his head that you couldn't tell where he was looking. His first words were "Because you are officers in training, I will address you as 'Sir'. Because I am her...

The two errors that annoy me most are: 1) would OF. It's would HAVE. HAVE. HAVE. Do you hear me?!! HAVE!!!!! 2) different TO. It's different FROM, and similar TO. :evil: Things cannot be different TO anything! The other mistake (usually committed by footballers after a match) is when the first thin...

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54-61. During the transition period from medieval to relatively modern. I left before the reorganization of the houses and the arrival of -gasp- girls!

but my trusty companion in mischief, Frazer Mare, did bring in a couple of shotgun cartridges he found in his Grandad's attic. When i look back on the incidents that followed i do cringe just thinking about how wrong it all could have gone but pouring out and lighting the gun powder on back ash did...

My first day my family accompanied me on the train, an old steam locomotive that produced prodigious quantities of very black smoke (the Sharpenhurst flyer?). There was one other new pupil on the train with us and I felt very superior because he cried the whole journey, and I didn't. When we got to ...

[quote="J.R."]I seem to remember 'Killer' Fry had quite a glowing military record. Could that have had anything to do with it ? I seemed to remember he held quite a high decoration. Yes: won the MC, I believe in Burma. We always called him "Dick", I don't remember 'Killer" a...