Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Matron's inspections - I think there was always the threat of a 'Matron's bath' for those who failed to maintain their personal hygiene. This supposedly involved being scrubbed in the bath by matron (the old one, not the young Dutch assistant matron with short skirts and very long legs). I don't kn...

Richard Ruck wrote:

huntertitus wrote:....a sort of aural fart, ....

Oral, surely.....

Have you ever tried blowing off through an ear? A bit tricky....

Yours pedantically,

Dick

You really haven't grown up, have you.

Congratulations!

Richard Ruck wrote:
Oh aah, that oi did!

Just wondering how you could detect an accent on the internet, though....

If my memory serves me well I'm sure I recall you talking in a deep Somerset accent while at school - can't be sure whether it was put on for comedic effect or if you really spoke like that.

petard249 wrote:Huntertitus,
So long as your 14-year old son keeps the trousers on, the 14-year old girls should be safe,

In the next year or two??

No Chance

Can anyone remember a bocker with flat cap, grey hair, roundish, friendly face, an accent I am sure Richard Ruck modelled his accent on, ...... Eh? Well, he did have a distinct burr, if you understand my meaning, and I did say that everyone loved him on account of the fact he was so completely lazy...

Then - Torkington - I remember his beard - a major disaster Matrons - whatever happened to Mrs Van Alphen ????????????????? I will NEVER forget when the Tork walked into chapel with the new beard. It was one of those moments when someone makes a sudden explosion of air from the mouth, a sort of aur...

Not smoking related but I was caught with 2 friends emerging from the tube which runs from the laundry to Dining Hall. One Sunday afternoon we were wandering past the laundry building next to the old gym and noticed the door was open. Just inside was a set of concrete steps which went straight down...

Huntertitus, what is it with that photo, am I missing something here? That's my beloved daughter aged 2. It was her birthday and she had ruined the tutu by the evening having spent the day in Battersea Park rolling in filthy puddles of water with a dog.I photographed her in the dress because I knew...

All I recall about being woken in Barnes B by "B****r" Johnson (an unfair nickname as I know he was not a b****r, just a kind old fellow who couldn't bring himself to beat boys hard like the other teachers did) was that he used to say "Show a leg, show a leg, show a leg" which I ...

There I was with 2 friends, eagerly puffing away on our roll-ups, outside the back of Peele B - when around the corner strode Des Carrington (GET OFF THE TRACK!!!) He said words to the effect of "If youv'e got to smoke, try to be a bit more discreet about it." and off he went like some ove...

Can anyone remember a bocker with flat cap, grey hair, roundish, friendly face, an accent I am sure Richard Ruck modelled his accent on, Always an extremely thin roll-up fag in his mouth, always seen leaning on his rake somewhere along the senior house side of the avenue. As far as I could see, he n...

My 3 children all went to state primary (mixed sex) but looking at state secondary in London we were frightened off and have with the first 2 gone private. Both of them have ended up in single sex schools. We were not looking for that, but the best / most appropriate schools that accepted them happe...

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They have had to call in the retrievers

one notable Edinburgh gig - The Buzzcocks supported by Joy Division. Was that with Howard Devoto singing? - (Buzzcocks - remember Spiral Scratch ep?) He was one of the greatesr and I never saw him perform. Magazine made some excellent singles - I still have them. The 1st Damned LP was one record I ...

As for sheep...the tend to plummet because they can not fly. If you imagine a sheep balancing on a high branch ready to take flight, when that moment comes.....what happens?? It plummets. But how did the sheep get up the tree? I never once came upon a sheep at the top of any tree I climbed. I think...