Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Tim_MaA_MidB wrote:Well, today I am going to buy a few consumables for friends in Brazil that are hard or impossible to buy there.

Winegums and Marmite are 2 such items.

Anyone do anything similar when they go visiting abroad?

you could just order online
e.g. http://www.expatshopping.coop/

A young man named Gordon bought a donkey from an old farmer for £100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. When the farmer drove up the next day, he said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news...the donkey is on my truck, but he's dead." Gordon replied, "Well then,...

baroque bassoon if you like :D I did Messiah (I can't sing at all but not bad on bassoon) whilst at University (Royal Holloway) in the chapel. Perfect setting, and the acoustics really lifted the piece. I seem to remember the next month we did Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury in the same setting...

Good to see you're still playing.

I'll try to come to the Southwark one.

anaerobic

I'm all for conserving water. It would help if the water companies were as well. Does anyone have the stats for leakage each day? I seem to remember it's something alarming. Thames Water loses 894 million litres per day in leaks, good to know when we get the stand pipes ... I like it when Ofwat (?)...

plagiarism is a big problem with the internet cut and pasting that goes on. there's currently a conference going on - the JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service's plagiarism conference at The Sage, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. bit dull, but I have to know this for my job. yawn! universities are trying to emb...

I don't know, Brazil weren't as good as the hype.

I wonder how many people will suddenly have to leave work early today to watch the match?! Going through Brixton this morning I'm sure there were more Trinidad and Tobago flags than English ones! Could be interesting depending on who wins ...

Shangri la

or something like that?

A simple solution, surely, would be to raise one's naughty bits above the surface of the river before passing water. apparently the cure is, I quote Wikipedia A traditional option is the use of two plants, the Xagua plant (Genipa americana) and the Buitach apple which are inserted (or their extract...

marty wrote:One of Adolf Hitler's school reports from his teacher remarked that Hitler was...'bad tempered and fancied himself as a leader.'

Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938

Euterpe13 wrote:I never won the French prize because, in an unnameable ( for charity's sake ) teacher's words " you've been learning french for much longer than the others, so you have an advantage" ...!

How did they work out who won the English prize?

Have to confess I usually got 2 or 3 every year. I didn't mean to

Rose Bowl prize ... nothing fancy just money for books. Exciting times.

I got that prize too! So it existed up to 1994.