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by rockfreak
Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:19 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Sharks
Replies: 14
Views: 5201

Sharks

Today's Guardian Review, which on a Saturday features books, gave me a nasty dose of deja vu when two recent books about sharks were reviewed and up popped a familiar picture. Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley, a disturbing vision of an ethereal looking naked blond man floating in the br...
by rockfreak
Tue Jun 27, 2017 6:50 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236471

Re: Politics

This takes me back to my history lessons at CH when Chern was always telling us about trouble in the "Balkanth".

On another note, is there a sudden absence from JR or is it that he doesn't have anything to say? Any news of him?
by rockfreak
Mon Jun 26, 2017 7:55 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236471

Re: Politics

Re. Michael Scuffil's comment about privatisation rules in the EU, Larry Elliott in today's Guardian talks about the gradual drift in the EU towards neoliberalism, less state aid, balanced budgets and outsourcing. I sometimes think that economics is like pop music or clothes; there's an inevitable d...
by rockfreak
Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:02 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236471

Re: Politics

Freaky does it again! Another letter in today's Guardian (24 June). Along the lines of "The 70s wasn't so bad". Ha ha! Already I can hear Banker Brown grinding his teeth and muttering darkly about unions, strikes, three-day weeks, etc. Actually he might also have mentioned flares, idiotic ...
by rockfreak
Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:33 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236471

Re: Politics

Freaky does it again. Another letter in the FT (today, 19 June). Exhorting British businessmen to shout their misgivings about Brexit before it's too late. If I read it correctly and we jump off the cliff onto WTO rules and have to pay tariffs on our exports and imports for the foreseeable future, B...
by rockfreak
Sun Jun 11, 2017 9:09 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RESEARCH
Replies: 60
Views: 16227

Re: RESEARCH

It sounds positively civilised and cultural Katharine. We got turned out into the local countryside on our whole holiday to do...well, I don't know what. We just got turned out, from age 12 onwards. No-one worried about whether we might come to any harm. I don't know of anyone who did. When we came ...
by rockfreak
Sun Jun 11, 2017 5:42 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236471

Re: Politics

Ian Paisley has gone but Arlene Foster appears to be a bit of a chip off the old block. She's got a voice like broken glass in a blender. At least there's no cries of No Popery this time round but instead we've got No Gropery, as far as Lesbians are concerned. And if it all continues in this unsatis...
by rockfreak
Fri Jun 09, 2017 12:39 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236471

Re: Politics

Well that was a turn-up for the books, wasn't it. The Maybot's software providers failed to provide her with enough varied programming. But for those of us who remembers the 70s we see the return to influence of that familiar tribe, the gaggle of garrulous Ulster Protestants asking for favours, in t...
by rockfreak
Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:00 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RESEARCH
Replies: 60
Views: 16227

Re: RESEARCH

It is fascinating that no matter how odd the thread the discussion so often ends up on the subject of the Horsham nurses nd the young ladies who did so many of the chores around the place. I am sure that a psychiatrist could explain it! David :shock: There is indeed one. Nick Duffell, ex boarder an...
by rockfreak
Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:13 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RESEARCH
Replies: 60
Views: 16227

Re: RESEARCH

[rockfreak post_id=138738 time=1496260042 user_id=2156] Of course there were no females. This was a Protestant school. All stern male disciples and martyrs. Virgins? Annunciations? Pietas? Gettaway! David, oh David! Where did you go to school? Not CH Horsham by the sound of it! We had all those del...
by rockfreak
Wed May 31, 2017 8:47 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RESEARCH
Replies: 60
Views: 16227

Re: RESEARCH

Here are three other happenings from the President’s (Prince of Wales/Duke of Windsor) visit in 1921. After leaving the Manual School he visited Lamb A, where he joined a game of billiards (or demonstrated his prowess) and pocketed a red ball. While lunching on the dais a Col B junior poured a mug ...
by rockfreak
Fri May 26, 2017 8:49 pm
Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
Topic: School scarf
Replies: 28
Views: 15322

Re: School scarf

For anyone who is interested....the answer is £15 available from the Tuck Shop which is now called Buttons. Sent a cheque back to school this time! Do I take it from this post that the tuck shop has been privatised? Or just rebranded? Would Saatchi and Saatchi have been involved by any chance? What...
by rockfreak
Fri May 26, 2017 8:44 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: American soldiers at CH during the War
Replies: 12
Views: 3550

American soldiers at CH during the War

I was just browsing Orwell's four volumes of essays and came across an account whereby he'd nearly come to blows with some drunken and abusive American soldiers in a shop towards the end of WW2. The soldiers clearly weren't too happy to be over here fighting our war and Orwell remarked that this fri...
by rockfreak
Mon May 08, 2017 3:59 pm
Forum: Thornton Photos
Topic: ThorntonB 1959
Replies: 7
Views: 6157

Re: ThorntonB 1959

I was in Prep B and would have gone in at the same time as your brother. One memory: we in Col B were playing his Thornton house at cricket and your brother was wicket keeper. Our batsman got a thick edge and your brother took a catch and was congratulated on taking his first "snick" catch...
by rockfreak
Sun May 07, 2017 7:42 pm
Forum: Thornton Photos
Topic: ThorntonB 1959
Replies: 7
Views: 6157

Re: ThorntonB 1959

Katharine, just taking a flyer here, would your brother have been Hills P who was in Prep A in the 1950s?