Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

My maternal grandmother was the governess to the nieces and nephews of King Farouk of Egypt in the 1920/30s.

Angela, this is not a pornographic site, so I'm afraid you'll have to use your imagination. But you're a big girl now... Actually, it is said that in the whole of Jane Austen, there is not a single conversation between two men where no women were present, because JA didn't trust herself to report a...

I never even thought about the fact that houses might have had lofts. The intrigue was more underground in the tube.

Love the Christmas decs above. This is quite exciting so I'm going to use capitals and colour - TODAY I SAW A WELL-KNOWN TV FACE IN THE PANNIER MARKET!!!!!! However, her name isn't that well-known to me, but she was in Green Wing and she was also the wife of the manager of the Sports Centre in that ...

Ajarn Philip wrote:Better late than never, but I'm chuffed to bits for you, cj.

In fact I think I may be getting a bit broody...

Hooray - you're on line again!

Get some chickens if you're feeling broody. At the moment, I feel it's the easier option.

Jean-Christophe Novelli bought a house from me, (not my house, I was just the agent). Then a few weeks later came back with his better looking younger brother for him to buy a house too. My colleague didn't say anything but when they had gone he handed me a large handkerchief and told me to pick my...

Tenous link - Kenny Baker's son was on a quiz show on ITV last Saturday. I'm really enjoying this thread! I've thought of another 2: I sat quite near Douglas Hurd in Westminster Abbey at a weekday evensong a few years ago. That day was also momentous in that it was the first and only time I've ever ...

My Mum and Dad have just had their sofa reupholstered by Tony "Baldrick" Robinson's cousin. At the UoP degree ceremony in Exeter in 2006, my husband was introduced to and had a brief chat with Kevin McCloud after he (KM) received his honorary doctorate. On a train from Billingshurst to Lon...

When I was a mixed infant at Calvert Road school in Greenwich we sang something about "Remember all the people who live in far off lands" which came out as "Reme-ember all the pe-ye-yeople who" etc. Now why should I remember that about 70 yeas later? Maggie Is the confusion sort...

the Libera Me Domine Faure? I remember Peter Allwood teaching that to an uncomprehending school back in 1986-ish. Choir sing first, then everyone repeat. Senior boys houses were most fun to watch, trying to remain cool whilst singing classical music. Good to hear it's still being churned out ... Pe...

I must check this Chinese lunar system. Wonder what they are? Wonder what Ethelbert will be! Have you decided home or hospital yet, Catherine? Love, Munch The Chinese lunar calendar predicts the sex of the baby by the mother's age and the month of conception - so all 35 year olds who conceived in N...

Hope you've had a great day. Did you get the bumps on the back asphalt?

Sadly I was behind a closed door with my knickers down at the time, :oops: :oops: Being a Kennedy, he's have probably really appreciated the gesture, Katharine!! My claims to fame are mostly musically related: I sang with the university choir at a very small luncheon party at Holyrood Palace for Ma...

I'm afraid SJS is an abomination, as are countless other dollops that the C of E seem determined to call "music".

I always take a real mug and a real teabag to breakfast, as not only do the plastic mugs not do tea justice, the tea you get out of the machines is decaffinated, instant rubbish. Plastic cups? :shock: Would never have happened in my day :lol: Things must have changed :( We had urns at the back of t...