Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Vonny wrote:

Katharine wrote:

Vonny wrote:Did you not have a photo of the whole school taken every few years?

I have absolutely no recollection of such a thing happening during my time.

I was at Hertford from 1981-1985 and we only had the one photo of the entire school & staff in that time.

I think the one I posted was taken becasue DR was retiring.

And it looks as if one was taken when the girls left Hertford.

Pretty pathetic, and cheap.

My kids school photos cost a fortune though.

Have just forked out £38 for two whole school ones, and they were just in a box. It would have been another £30 to have them in frames.

Katharine wrote:

huntertitus wrote:Where is the postings about slang?

Take a double detention for straying off the subject.

Guilty as charged .... but one of the things I love about this forum is that you never know what you will find on any thread!!!

Back to CH did you have to learn psalms as a punishment at Horsham, you could tell how seriously DR took your demeanour by which psalm you got. I once got 117 only 2 verses!!!! Can't remember what I had done.

No psalm learning - that would have been fun - when I was a little boy the teacher hit you with a shoe, and later on when you were big enough they used a stick. Sometimes the stick broke to the irritation of the punisher.

Small mistakes were punished with having a piece ofchalk thrown hard at your head, being made to run a farm loop or worse an Itchingfield loop, and there were some teachers who made you write essays on behaviour - one I got was 200 lines on "Punctuality and Punctiliousness"

I see this thread has been 'rejuvinated' and I can't be bothered to plough through all 13 pages, but don't forget the dreaded 'SH@G-SPOTS' for the horrible curse of acne.

It was said the the appearance of a fresh red spot indicated a recent sexual encounter. HOWEVER, due to the lack of female company, it was always assumed that the owner of the skin eruption had enjoyed a secret five-finger shuffle.

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J.R. wrote:I see this thread has been 'rejuvinated' and I can't be bothered to plough through all 13 pages, but don't forget the dreaded 'SH@G-SPOTS' for the horrible curse of acne.

It was said the the appearance of a fresh red spot indicated a recent sexual encounter. HOWEVER, due to the lack of female company, it was always assumed that the owner of the skin eruption had enjoyed a secret five-finger shuffle.

(I wonder if JT will deem this post fit for editing ?)

and "scrot rot" (a bit like foot rot but not on your feet).

"I'll get my coat."

J.R. wrote:I see this thread has been 'rejuvinated' and I can't be bothered to plough through all 13 pages, but don't forget the dreaded 'SH@G-SPOTS' for the horrible curse of acne.

It was said the the appearance of a fresh red spot indicated a recent sexual encounter. HOWEVER, due to the lack of female company, it was always assumed that the owner of the skin eruption had enjoyed a secret five-finger shuffle.

(I wonder if JT will deem this post fit for editing ?)

As I don't understand I cannot see why it should be edited.

englishangel wrote:

J.R. wrote:I see this thread has been 'rejuvinated' and I can't be bothered to plough through all 13 pages, but don't forget the dreaded 'SH@G-SPOTS' for the horrible curse of acne.

It was said the the appearance of a fresh red spot indicated a recent sexual encounter. HOWEVER, due to the lack of female company, it was always assumed that the owner of the skin eruption had enjoyed a secret five-finger shuffle.

(I wonder if JT will deem this post fit for editing ?)

As I don't understand I cannot see why it should be edited.

That's all right, then Mary !! Nothing like leading a sheltered life !!

J.R. wrote:That's all right, then Mary !! Nothing like leading a sheltered life !!

If you have learnt nothing else from this forum, JR it must be that we were sheltered - at least in theory and while we were behind the high walls.

In my Senior VI term I went to Ireland for a cousin's wedding. This entailed catching a sleeper train from Paddington at about midnight. DR drove me there, as I was the only S VI who wasn't a Londoner. She didn't like to think what might have happened to me en route and she was in loco parentis. I think my parents were very grateful, I was 18 at the time.

How embarrassing!

I went to France (on my own) between Lower and Upper Sixth.

I wonder what she would have made of that.

englishangel wrote:Considering the number of guys posting on the 'Hertford' threads, perhaps you could cut us a little slack.

Whatever next???

Don't tell me, that is a sailing term?

Katharine wrote:

J.R. wrote:That's all right, then Mary !! Nothing like leading a sheltered life !!

If you have learnt nothing else from this forum, JR it must be that we were sheltered - at least in theory and while we were behind the high walls.

In my Senior VI term I went to Ireland for a cousin's wedding. This entailed catching a sleeper train from Paddington at about midnight. DR drove me there, as I was the only S VI who wasn't a Londoner. She didn't like to think what might have happened to me en route and she was in loco parentis. I think my parents were very grateful, I was 18 at the time.

Is that anything like a Ford Fiesta ??

englishangel wrote: How embarrassing!

Wot ? The new photograph ??

I think I preferred the stockings !

J.R. wrote:

Katharine wrote:

J.R. wrote:That's all right, then Mary !! Nothing like leading a sheltered life !!

If you have learnt nothing else from this forum, JR it must be that we were sheltered - at least in theory and while we were behind the high walls.

In my Senior VI term I went to Ireland for a cousin's wedding. This entailed catching a sleeper train from Paddington at about midnight. DR drove me there, as I was the only S VI who wasn't a Londoner. She didn't like to think what might have happened to me en route and she was in loco parentis. I think my parents were very grateful, I was 18 at the time.

Is that anything like a Ford Fiesta ??

No it is more like a mad mother.

englishangel wrote:

J.R. wrote:

Katharine wrote: If you have learnt nothing else from this forum, JR it must be that we were sheltered - at least in theory and while we were behind the high walls.

In my Senior VI term I went to Ireland for a cousin's wedding. This entailed catching a sleeper train from Paddington at about midnight. DR drove me there, as I was the only S VI who wasn't a Londoner. She didn't like to think what might have happened to me en route and she was in loco parentis. I think my parents were very grateful, I was 18 at the time.

Is that anything like a Ford Fiesta ??

No it is more like a mad mother.

Mary, can you imagine just how awful it would have been to have had her as your mother? Or would she have been transformed by the experience?

I often wonder that.

I don't know what you found as she was driving you to Paddington.

I found that on the couple of times she took us out on Long Saturday she was quite human.

I assume she is still alive in the nursing home near Seaford.