Old Blues who have worked at CH

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:36 am

P.S. That's an example of why it's not always a good idea to delete old pages in particular threads.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:20 am

Have some been deleted then? I thought my post count had gone down!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:10 pm

Great Plum wrote:Have some been deleted then? I thought my post count had gone down!

Not as far as I know.

I'm just suggesting that if the 'pruning' of earlier pages of threads which exceed 5 or 10 pages might result in relevant information being lost.

It could even result in the entire point of the thread being lost (and not just through aimless banter!).

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:27 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:P.S. That's an example of why it's not always a good idea to delete old pages in particular threads.

I didn't think there was a suggestion of deleting anything in the CH Stuff sections.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:38 pm

Katharine wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote:P.S. That's an example of why it's not always a good idea to delete old pages in particular threads.
I didn't think there was a suggestion of deleting anything in the CH Stuff sections.

Perhaps not, but my point is that, in a thread which runs to many pages, the original purpose of the thread could easily be lost if the first (and probably most relevant) posts get dumped.

In this particular instance, a question has been asked on page 12 or 13 (I forget which) to which a reasonable answer can be found in the very first post of the thread. If the earlier pages had been dumped, poor Plum would have to re-write his original post, and we all know how pushed for time he is!

This could just as easily happen in the non-C.H. bit.

midget · Post by **midget** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:47 pm

If she hasn't already ben mentioned, I believe Catherine Llewellyn Smith worked at CH (probably Hertford) for a while, but it may have been under her married name,which I don't know. She read Classics at Uni, so I guess that is what she taught.

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:02 pm

To be honest Richard, it was more an attempt to get the thread back on topic again. Not a very subtle one I grant you but it was a simple attempt to pull this back on topic and it seems to have failed.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:06 am

Scone Lover wrote:To be honest Richard, it was more an attempt to get the thread back on topic again. Not a very subtle one I grant you but it was a simple attempt to pull this back on topic and it seems to have failed.

Never mind - Midget's managed to get it back on topic!

Alice83 · Post by **Alice83** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:19 am

Sorry to go back on topic here and I really cant be bothered to read all of it but has Matt ever mentioned that he has worked at CH? We both did a bit of work for CHE for a bit in the holidays - making beds and stuff. I remember before we were 16 they would pay us in book vouchers!!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:32 pm

Just after I left CH, I was paid in the holidays to go around the grounds shooting pigeons with air rifles!
That has to be one of the oddest jobs done at the school.

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:40 am

I worked at CH for two days a year in Janurary during entrance exams,had a group of kids that i sat with while they did their exams! Got fed for two days and paid! great

Alice83 · Post by **Alice83** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:58 am

Yeah I do that too Amy - think i get roped into as Dad organises it! Think I am doing it again this year! Good little bit of easy cash tho - mind you did you try to do any of the exams?! They are quite tough!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:15 pm

I wouldn't mind a bit of that! how did you end up doing that?

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:09 pm

i always tried the maths exam, and every year it has stumped me! I cannot remember for the life of how to do long division-good old ocmputers with calculators and phones with them and mean, median, mode though i cant remember which one means what!

I dont think ill be doing it this year, not enough holiday left!

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:12 pm

blondie95 wrote:i always tried the maths exam, and every year it has stumped me!

Did you have to pass an exam to get in as a Dep?