Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Never brought Marmite etc from the UK, but at the time of writing, PG Tips, my Costa Rican wife's favourite tea, is still available on the shelves of the local Carrefour etc, here in the Valencian community. If I've got my geography right, Valencia is a fairly big city and has a busy port, so it sh...

These don't appear to be the interview in question, but are quite interesting nevertheless: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/roger-allam-on-his-doctor-who-ambitions-and-why-hes-sick-of-background-music-on-tv/ https://all-allam.com/endeavour-series-viii/ Oh, here it is on Roger's website: https:/...

I found the Brangwyn paintings distracting... I found Chapel distracting. We were lucky enough to be in the gallery and I used to read Tolkien during services. But I still had to stand up occasionally and mime hymns. From the gallery you’re spared most of the awfulness of the murals. What was awful...

Yes, getting on for two centuries after Darwin and then Dawkins in recent times, how does faith religion hang on in there for the modern age? We've covered some of this on other threads about school chaplains. I used to enjoy bellowing out the old hymns with their wonderful chord changes but I didn...

So, what is right or wrong for corporal punishment is defined by place and time, rather like grooming, as you explained here: https://www.chforum.info/php/viewtopic.php?p=149627#p149627 So where and when would you prefer to send your children to school from a corporal punishment point of view? This...

What specific date? The specific date that it was banned, i suppose... So, what is right or wrong for corporal punishment is defined by place and time, rather like grooming, as you explained here: https://www.chforum.info/php/viewtopic.php?p=149627#p149627 Let's be clear, the only difference betwee...

Otter wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:07 pm Is he related to the former Peele matron with the same surname?

why, you dragging her into this one now...lol...?

TMF wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:42 am How about now? Are you happy to have your children beaten by strangers? If no, at what specific date did ''then' become 'now'?

It doesn't apply now, so why are you getting excited...?

What specific date? The specific date that it was banned, i suppose...

Do corporal punishment enthusiasts, practitioners, and apologists generally think that their own children should be beaten by strangers? Do they use corporal punishment themselves to this day? Were you beaten as a child, or just dropped on your head...? So - no problems having your children beaten ...

I once received 3 'cracks' from him for something I undoubtedly fully deserved Do corporal punishment enthusiasts, practitioners, and apologists generally think that there own children should be beaten by strangers? Do they use corporal punishment themselves to this day? Were you beaten as a child,...

rockfreak wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:45 pm I took LSD in the 1960s in an effort to get inside my head and the results were frightening and spectacular by degrees.

Now that i do want to hear about! Another thread, maybe...

This has descended into a fairly unsavoury slanging match which perhaps should be concluded. As far as I am concerned, Ken Grimshaw was one of the good guys, an excellent teacher and a good bloke all round. He was also a married man and strangely enough there is nothing wrong or odd about a straigh...

Reading the farewell notes for R Rae, in the Summer 1990 Blue, RCP (trying to work out who he may have been), writes that Rae was Acting Head in March 1990 at a very dark hour in the School's history. Can anyone elucidate? RCP was Poulton. The dark hour would have been this: https://www.chforum.inf...

Hi Ken, Thank you for posting here. A few questions which may be of general interest and helpful to some ex-pupils follow. Ken, were you acquainted with McCall at CH? I ask because you both went to Thailand at some point - McCall left CH suddenly after 'after being caught trying to lure a boy up to...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREING...!!!!! I think that you mean: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING...!!!!! This is the elongated form of boring. Do not feel bad, your English master probably departed at an inopportune moment, or failed to administer the correct amount of corporal punishment, for you to retain this in...