Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Hello Gemma
You will get used to it! I don't remember sleeping much in my time at Hertford (except, desperately, during the hours in which we had to be in bed - although I do remember in my last two years encroaching into even those precious hours by revising by torchlight under the bedclothes after 'lights out'). But by the time I was your age I had been there for 7 years, so I was more used to the pace of life, which must have taken you by storm these last two weeks. I even remember the madness of wriggling out of the nightdress and into underwear under the bedclothes, first thing in the morning, so that one could be legitimately the first out of bed, into the bathroom, dressed and downstairs (WHY?!) - not being allowed to move out of bed until the rising bell clanged (at 7.00 a.m.?). I am sure you will enjoy your sleeping time when you get to the weekend.
Kerren

Gemma...

Don't forget that should read "when I eventually get home having marched for hours round the streets of the city of London"; i.e. after st matthew's day...

By the time I was on the Grecians and living in the Boarding House, I porbably only slept c. 5 or 6 hoursa night - it was something I was completely used to!

Tired? You know tired when your home for a few hours is some peaty field on NT land, which you have reached after walking a good 6k in the dark with weary feet and empty bellies.

Then you're tired.

Great Plum wrote:By the time I was on the Grecians and living in the Boarding House, I porbably only slept c. 5 or 6 hoursa night - it was something I was completely used to!

Not nice to go through perhaps but I learned a couple of useful lessons from all that.

a) the human body can put up with far more than we expect.
b) CH gives you a high level of base fitness so that you can, for example, do "ghosters" (36 hour work sessions) and recover quickly. I suspect that it has a beneficial effect on the heart and lungs which is not lost in later life.
c) you can live on only a few hours sleep almost indefinitely but to get to that state you need to be forced to do so - as at CH.

sejintenej wrote:

Great Plum wrote:By the time I was on the Grecians and living in the Boarding House, I porbably only slept c. 5 or 6 hoursa night - it was something I was completely used to!

Not nice to go through perhaps but I learned a couple of useful lessons from all that.

a) the human body can put up with far more than we expect.
b) CH gives you a high level of base fitness so that you can, for example, do "ghosters" (36 hour work sessions) and recover quickly. I suspect that it has a beneficial effect on the heart and lungs which is not lost in later life.
c) you can live on only a few hours sleep almost indefinitely but to get to that state you need to be forced to do so - as at CH.

As any new parent knows, especially if they have twins.

Just thought I'd say:

Ah, the joys of only having 1&2... bliss.

So, Josh, you have two children?

You do seem to be busy!

Great Plum wrote:By the time I was on the Grecians and living in the Boarding House, I porbably only slept c. 5 or 6 hoursa night - it was something I was completely used to!

me too went to bed at 11 then was up at 6:45 to have breakfast! Now if i dont have 8 1/2 hours then im useless and if i do more than one night on little sleep and work am likely to casue my blood pressure to fall and then i get ill!

Angela Woodford wrote:So, Josh, you have two children?

You do seem to be busy!

He kept that quiet !!!!

Have just heard that the grecians club stocks WKD.
Whoever made that decision should be shot! (figuratively).
(and repaced with an ale drinker )

I thought they weren't allowed to drink there now...

Great Plum wrote:I thought they weren't allowed to drink there now...

So ?

Why would it stock WKD then?

Great Plum wrote:Why would it stock WKD then?

I thought, with my admittedly limited knowledge of "Yoof" drinks, that WKD was non- alcoholic.

I may have to have words with a particular daughter