Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

michael scuffil wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:58 pmMy view is that historic cases of any sort ought not to be prosecutable.

Seriously?

I knew several swear words before entering the hallowewd cloisters at Horsham, including the 'F' word, though I wasn't too sure of it's meaning. ....which reminds me of the first time I ever heard someone use the F-word, at my previous school. I asked my best mate "What does f*** mean?" a...

When you arrived at CH, were you already a sweary little tyke who effed and blinded virtually non-stop, both by day and by night? Or were you a sweet and innocent little lambkin who didn't even know what 'bum' meant? If the latter, did your peer group at CH soon sort you out and set you a-swearin' a...

I'd been wondering about Richard Ruck myself. In a week's time it'll be four years since he last exerted himself in this forum. Do we assume that he's been on a four-year bender? Or is the poor lamb gravely ill? Richard, if you're out there and you're seriously unwell, the message seems to be that d...

What a fearsomely erudite response, Richard. Very much appreciated. On top of everything you mention as potential obstacles, I now find that even A-Level Human Biology exams are currently in the process of being done away with by the examining boards OCR, AQA and WJEC (and possibly by others, if oth...

It struck me the other day that it must be rather tedious for A-Level biology students to have to keep on dissecting just rats and frogs from one year to the next, so how's about we all donate our cadavers to the school for the students to dissect? That'd be much more fun for all concerned. Or is th...

And maybe they could also publish a subsidiary online resource called Who's Fat? , naming and shaming OBs like me who periodically succeed in lowering their weight significantly, only to drop the ball subsequently and pack all the weight back on again. I really do need an incentive. I've a feeling t...

...the only differences being that your parents paid to put you in Care and the Council paid for us to be put in Care No.31, very interesting to hear from you. In the '70s, Christ's Hospital was closer to its charitable roots than it is today (it was founded as a charitable institution for the bene...

In the '70s (as I appear to recall it), we would twice a week find a laundry roll consisting of shirt, socks and underpants deposited at the foot of our beds; on another occasion in the week, a pair of socks with a pair of bands tucked into them would be similarly deposited on our beds by the fairie...

One grey shirt only? I had one pair of flannels only. When I was in the Third Form, I accidentally knelt in a pool of spilt orange squash on a worktop in the hobbies room whilst wearing my flannels and as a result spent the next seven or eight weeks with an extensive stiff patch on one trouser leg, ...

As I remember it, 'going into flannels' was a yearly event until 1977. The weather in the summer of that year was absolutely rubbish, so the decree from the headmaster never came. This apparently led to a rethink along the lines of Why does CH need to go into flannels anyway? and it was decided that...

John, is that you shown parping the trombone at 0.02 in the second video, in check shirt and body-warmer? If so, I can't help noticing that you're definitely blowing into the right end of it, so you've evidently remembered the basics of what you learned at CH. Jolly good show. No need to join the Sa...

Last night I went to an absolute tour de force of a brass band concert. The band consisted of people of all ages, male and female, and their glee at having found a musical home for themselves was self-evident. It left me wondering what it must've been like for CH pupils who, on leaving school, found...

Bummer. Very sorry to hear this.

Thoroughly well spotted, Jo. Hopefully they'll put up a statue to him in Bournemouth and/or Poole. Or failing that, a scarecrow. Certainly this forum won't be quite the same without him. But was he ever actually notorious ? If so, for doing what? Did anyone ever find out? Or was he just notorious fo...