Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

What was the name of the organ piece that Dr Rust always played right at the end of the leavers service Really loud and ceremonial. It always sounded even better to me when up in the balcony. For some reason, the word Scipio ( :?: ) comes to mind. ANSWERS ON AN ORGAN PIPE, TO................... The...

Beg to differ about the rifle, My day came a touch after yours and I clearly recollect the rifles in the armoury all being SMLE with 1917 or 1918 stamped under the bolt. Not that I ever got to fire one, only to drill with it. You surprise me. We regularly fired .303's on the range, AND I was in one...

Well done EA You beat me to it !! :oops: "Brown" must be warned against the Pedant's Revolt !! :lol: DS McNutt (Senior Classics Master and Ximines of the Times) wore no Hood in Chapel, rumour has it that HE had been Rusticated from Oxford (We know not why) but Oily Flecker had employed hi...

I use the word to describe, what used to be called "Civvies" and reading the recent Posts about the quantity of Civilian Clothes required by present Pupils at CH "MUFTI " -- I assume from the Indian Army -- does Sejintenej know ? OK so I suppose I gave you some bovine defecation...

Fear God, Honour the Queen, Love the Brotherhood (in that order) is the school motto BUT ..... each Block has a house motto over the door, and all, except Peele have it in Latin - eg. Middleton's is Festinae Lente i.e. "make haste slowly". Peele's is quite extraordinary - " Passing A...

It's that time of year for hearing about peoples' holidays! Am I alone in feeling irritated by " Yes! We did Rome... did Naples... did Salerno on our way to Sicily!"? It annoys me. I'd actually like to hear about some interesting places, not imagine them being briskly ticked off on a list...

Kophos means deaf or dumb (odd that the same word could be used for both)

My time as a server in the dining hall still allows me to bring in six plates of food for guests at the same time, to the mortification of my wife.

Hi. Bit of a squit here what with my first post and everything, but here goes... Others I liked were the Welsh rugby winger Gerald Davies . I remember watching him in action: there used to be a yearly 7-a-side rugby match between the masters and the best of the students. I don't recall who else was...

As a geneticist, all I can say is: that will be my opening slide for my course

Har Har I'm surprised you havent already got a ext drive - I was once scanning photos and the computer crashed and I lost 2 days work - now I back up very often... One of the reasons I like my Mac: it automatically backs up hourly. That, and never having to remember where I saved a file since it wi...

I have a small sheet of laminated paper attached to my driver's license that has emergency contact numbers (family and doctor) as well as key medical information. Usually one of the first things police and emergency workers will check is your license, so they will immediately get any crucial informa...

NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:As I have said --- there was no "Careers Advice" when I was at CH ---

There is no Smiley for SMUG !!

Neill

If I reach 82 and can feel financially secure, still married to the woman I love and enjoying every minute: I too will feel very smug

Keep trucking

I probably shouldn't generalize, but my experience is that guidance counselors are all too often the people who were found to be inadequate teachers and were shuffled into their current job as a results. They often have little or no real training in their job and make decisions on subjective informa...

there is still no work experience or careers advice ......... IF that means what it seems to, the only word is "incredible"!!! Hopefully, the parents who have had the foresight to send their offspring to CH have enough world savvy to compensate. That said, after a PM discussion with a cur...