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- Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: staff accommodation
- Replies: 47
- Views: 45906
Re: staff accommodation
Kit invested in a bicycle, in his case with a pedal on just one side to accommodate his wooden leg (Sejintenej will attest to this), while Kirby cycled around with the much-loved Chlorine draped around his neck when she was finally unable to hobble after her master.
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH role in Coronation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6679
Re: CH role in Coronation
For a 21st century king
There should be an absence of bling.
Away with the canopy
And all other panoply,
They're clearly no longer the thing.
There should be an absence of bling.
Away with the canopy
And all other panoply,
They're clearly no longer the thing.
- Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: teaching relevance in later life
- Replies: 24
- Views: 59117
Re: teaching relevance in later life
Going back a bit into your post Keibat, I'm interested that you concentrated so much on 18th century military campaigns. If you'd had Chern I feel that he might well have concentrated on the Enlightenment, which after all has given us the freedoms that we so take for granted today. I had Chern in my...
- Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: teaching relevance in later life
- Replies: 24
- Views: 59117
Re: teaching relevance in later life
That's terrible Keith that a series of loud bangs should have screwed up your hearing. I can't imagine why someone should have been exposed to bangs like this. Are you still able to listen to music? My own experience, on a more pop level, involved getting tinnitus from going to too many rock concert...
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Punishment system
- Replies: 16
- Views: 48669
Re: Punishment system
We never had yellow cards and red cards in my day (1950s). What for? Two-footed tackles? Abusing the ref? Last defender taking out the striker?
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Bring back proper rugby
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6139
Re: Bring back proper rugby
Returning to the vexed subject of watchable rugby, I signed in to the Harlequins site to find a veritable plethora (I think that's what you call it) of posts from frustrated rugby fans (not the sexual sort) who are thoroughly fed up with not being able to understand today's game. I mentioned ages ag...
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 10:04 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: My experience of visiting CH after the abuse
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4597
Re: My experience of visiting CH after the abuse
It's times like this that I get very irate about Christ's Hospital and some of the attitudes - especially on the Official site (from which I've been banned) which casts CH as smelling totally of roses. No-one should have to apologise for not accepting the "character building" which the Bri...
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: teaching relevance in later life
- Replies: 24
- Views: 59117
Re: teaching relevance in later life
I never got to teaching but realised early in life that words were my thing rather than numbers. I was told by Gad at about age 14 that I could write but STEM subjects were, I'm afraid, a mystery to me. I used to get derisory marks in these subjects. The trouble was that it seemed to me that you hav...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things
- Replies: 9
- Views: 29495
Re: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things
This takes me back a bit. Back to the 50s. Overlooking top table in Col B was a faded sepia photo of an ex-Col B housemaster called Lenny Dale. AH Buck (before he got kicked out for gropery) made much of old Lenny's reputation. He told us that Lenny would not give you your weekly pocket money unless...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:43 pm
- Forum: Jobs/work experience - wanted/available
- Topic: any jobs going?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22748
Re: any jobs going?!
I was only joking David when I mentioned your "struggles" on the Idwal Slabs ("Hope" or Tennis Shoe Climb"?) I only know these climbs by reputation. And my own experience of Southern sandstone is at Harrisons and High Rocks where I found the popular routes to be shiny and bl...
- Sun Oct 23, 2022 8:49 pm
- Forum: Jobs/work experience - wanted/available
- Topic: any jobs going?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22748
Re: any jobs going?!
By the way. As I logged on I noticed an ad for rock climbing shoes - particularly the sort of contorted, ballet style shoes that today's extreme climbers wear and which you have to take off at every stance between pitches because they're crucifying your feet. Why has this cropped up on the CH forum?...
- Sun Oct 23, 2022 8:41 pm
- Forum: Jobs/work experience - wanted/available
- Topic: any jobs going?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22748
Re: any jobs going?!
In my day (1950s and 60s) the Benevolent Society of Blues might have found her a a job. What happened to them? Not so benevolent perhaps these days.
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Freaky in the FT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 45888
Re: Freaky in the FT
He's done it yet again! Another letter in the FT (Weekend edition 22/23 October). I'm ploughing what is by now a familiar furrow because this is my third letter in the FT on this particular subject. Is an independent central bank any more effective in softening the economic cycle than one controlled...
- Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: David Newsome
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19282
Re: David Newsome
Thinking back on past posts, was this the same Newsome who, I'm told, went apesh*t when Roy Hattersley declared his intention to close down the private schools, and he gathered the school together to tell them not to vote Labour at the election?
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7718
Re: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
I've posted elsewhere about how our housemaster in the 50s called the recently pubescent pupils in to his study to warn us about homosexual liaisons, it being illegal at the time. I remember how many fancied other housemates but were all paranoid about turning out gay - which then could be the kiss ...