Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

shoz wrote:Is your pic Bleep of Bleep and Booster fame?

yep, Bleep & Booster

and Emma do some revision....

looks like you are one now!

that means you are no longer a squit and don't have a nursemaid - before you know it you'll be getting a broadie and going into Lower Erasmus - got it?

....they're a couple of sharks....

""Also, take the media hype about Rock School with a pinch of salt - it's a charity school, not a school for rich kids........"" This IS an important comment - I caught one of the episodes of Rock School over the week-end whilst visiting my offspring in L'pool, and was a bit sho...

Loved Asphalt cricket....broke at least a couple of windows in my time

Richard Ruck wrote:Did he wear a big white hard hat as well, or would that have been taking the pith....?

that would be a big white hard helmet.....

quick, call the Moderator...

shoz wrote: I would have loved to been a pupil!

I think you might find some on here who were pupils but didn't love it.

Also, take the media hype about Rock School with a pinch of salt - it's a charity school, not a school for rich kids........

didn't John Goodall tend to wear light-coloured safari style suit jackets in the summer?

Had to stand facing the wall with your back to the whole school! :lol and did you get to eat any lunch, or did you miss out as part of the Yes we did get lunch - we were allowed to leave the dais straight after grace and sit with the rest of the house. You then had to return and stay facing the wal...

What was this, then? Competitive flower-arranging? How did he become known as 'Bwana'? Any ideas? basically the flower beds (which his wife had just spent much time and effort creating) were inadvertently trampled and destroyed during a mass game involving getting into the day room without being ca...

Vonny wrote:Had to stand facing the wall with your back to the whole school!

and did you get to eat any lunch, or did you miss out as part of the punishment? (cue jokes)

Richard Ruck wrote: If you were a goody-goody, how come you managed to get caned, then?

I think most people in Barnes B managed to tick the caning box after one particular Sunday when Bwana's flowerbeds were ruined. In the great scheme of things, perhaps not much "street cred" for that.....

cracked = gym shoe

a slight lapse of concentration........

..........perhaps we should distinguish between Headmaster's cane and Housemaster's cane - huge difference in gravity of offence

OK, I was a goody-goody.......can you remember how many official punishments you incurred......

Suggested Scale 0, 1-5, 6-20, 20+

Me....

CANED = 1-5
CRACKED = 0
DETENTION = 1-5

own up!........