Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

My wife went to a boarding school, they too swam sans cossies, difference was the school was mixed. Interestingly when I read an education book by the head of the school, he had taught for a short period of time at CH. Kenneth Barnes by name,does anyone remember him? She found him an inspirational t...

Dave, I'm with you on this one. I always used to like the less popular foods. As you say, for a hungry youth the extra grub was very welcome. The notable exception was the porridge. That was truly awful stuff! Sorry to be the odd one out, I used to fill up on porridge and brown suger to stave off t...

Pass me JRs blood pressure pills

sorry only answered half the question, can see Kit's red pen on the page again.

Unfotunately I have no memory of Housey stew.

As for sciffage pie, it would be eaten dependant on how hungry you were. Like most growing boys that was, very hungry all the time. So I would eat it but try not to taste it.

I'll have a go, but it will be a bit long winded. First of all it's a derogatory term for a pie of unidentifiable origin. In the 60's, and long before I guess, we had to do trades at meal times. Kiffage: serving tea (Kiff) Skiffage: collecting the plates and shovelling all the left overs into tray. ...

Not sure how to reply to your last comments Jude. "but somehow the boys always seem to have got off lighter (prove me wrong guys!) " I'm one of those who enjoyed my time at school despite excessive amounts of punishment. Having my ears flicked from behind dergatory nicknames and the rest. ...

englishangel wrote:Mudwofery. (sorry couldn't resist it)

My wife is also a mudwife, the boys used to take great delight in refering to her as a "Sprog hauler" when they were younger.

Might have ended up at the wrong station if i'd gone to Heartford

Steve Wolley won it when I was at school.
His other skill was his ability to resist waking up in the morning. We would tip him out of bed, throw water at him etc but he just slept on.

"If I knew then what I know now."


I think we would all have been on the next train.

Thought I had better put a post on, just to show that there are still some old blues on the forum who didn't go to Heartford.

I bet he cried when ne broke his new driver

try bromide

Man says to solicitor "Can I ask you 3 questions for £500?"
Solicitor replies "yes, what are the other two questions?"

What's the distance lernign course on then (sorry I couldn't resist it).